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Confessions of Japanese war criminals

[2014-07-09 07:31]

Editor's note: Earlier this month, China's State Archives Administration released a number of files on 45 Japanese war criminals who were tried and convicted in China after World War II. The criminals received sentences of eight-to-20 years' imprisonment from the special military tribunal of the Supreme People's Court, China's top court. China Daily is publishing abstracts of the criminals' confessions:

Nanjing races to clean air before Youth Games

[2014-07-09 07:31]

Nanjing is going all-out to guarantee the best air quality possible in the city as it prepares to host the 2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games in August.

Demand grows for skilled yue sao nannies

[2014-07-09 07:31]

The demand for Chinese yue sao - nannies for baby and mother in the first months after birth - is rising on the back of an expected baby boom in the Year of the Horse and relaxed family planning regulations.

Art Special: Spiritual quest

[2014-07-09 07:31]

Nearly blind, Buddhist master Hsing Yun continues to create calligraphy that inspires, reports Wang Qian.

Around China

[2014-07-08 07:25]

Fire engulfed a protective screen on an aboveground section of the Beijing subway on Sunday evening. No one was injured, firefighters said. A fire that broke out at a warehouse had ignited the subway screen. Nineteen fire engines rushed to the site and put out the blaze at 8:26 pm.

Quotable

[2014-07-08 07:25]

"Cross-Straits relations should keep making progress and the two sides should increase interaction and deepen communication, continually enhancing mutual understanding."

The Number

[2014-07-08 07:25]

89,509 Chinese tourists

On the web

[2014-07-08 07:25]

Highlights from chinadaily.com.cn

Li, German leader make surprise visit to students

[2014-07-08 07:25]

About 100 students and teachers from China and Germany were amazed to find that both the start and the end of the China-Germany Year of Language program included Premier Li Keqiang and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Time line

[2014-07-08 07:25]

Angela Merkel, who became chancellor of Germany in 2005, has visited China seven times in the past eight years.

'Time is ripe' for BRICS' own bank

[2014-07-08 07:25]

Foreign Ministry says new institution will help fund infrastructure projects

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