Beijing Public Security Bureau launched an anti-terror event on Wednesday, the first in a series of activities around the capital to improve residents' awareness and ability to protect themselves.
Beijing's transportation and traffic systems are preparing for the coming torrential rains this flood season, the city's urban development agency said.
"It took 20 years before the Advertising Law was amended. It may take another 20 years if we fail to include an explicit tobacco advertising ban in the law this time."
Top officials and political figures in Hong Kong have welcomed the central government's white paper that reviewed the "one country, two systems" principle since its adoption in 1997.
Premier Li Keqiang will visit Britain and Greece next week on another European tour that officials and experts say will yield closer economic ties between China and the two countries as well as China and Europe overall.
Beijing's efforts to garner support at the United Nations in its territorial row with Hanoi reflect its maturing diplomacy as well as its determination to clarify facts and defend interests, observers said.
A company illegally terminated the employment contracts of workers who staged a two-week strike, arbitrators have ruled in Fujian province in the first case of its kind on the Chinese mainland.
A plan to adorn each station on Beijing's subway Line 4 with the name of one of the 32 soccer teams playing in the World Cup has been dropped, much to the disappointment of frequent travelers.
Big-spending Chinese soccer club Guangzhou Evergrande will open a soccer school branch in Madrid this fall in a move to boost development of the sport on the mainland, the club has announced.
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