China should heed a new report by the World Health Organization that calls for strengthening the regulation of electronic cigarettes, smoking-control experts said.
Authorities in Guangdong province are studying the possibility of including treatment and medicine for quitting smoking in the medical insurance system.
The Red Cross Society of China has launched a charity campaign called "Philanthropic Messenger", under which 10 million yuan ($1.63 million) will be used mainly to help underprivileged children left behind by their parents or suffering major diseases in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, the Tibet autonomous region and in Yunnan, Guizhou and Gansu provinces.
Sixty-five years after their deaths, five martyrs who foiled an attempt to separate part of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region from China were honored on Wednesday.
Gulaman Abudula, 34, said she now is sorry now for leading many women in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region into an illegal religious extremist group because their families might be destroyed, just as hers was.
I'm worried about the future of the Chinese team rather than the plight they are currently facing."
Premier Li Keqiang and his Antigua and Barbuda counterpart, Gaston Browne, vowed to seek more common ground in economic cooperation and broader mutual support on international affairs.
Hopes that tiny panda paws would be seen in the world's first live broadcast of a cub delivery were dashed on Tuesday when Chinese experts suggested the "mother" may have been focusing more on extra bun rations than giving birth.
Thirty-six junior high school graduates whose homes and schools were devastated by the Yunnan earthquake have been brought to Beijing so they can continue their studies.
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