Some runners wear masks to protect themselves from heavy smog as they take part in the Beijing Marathon on Sunday. Wang Zhuangfei / China Daily
The annual Beijing Marathon kicked off on Sunday morning as planned despite the heavy smog, while competitors wearing masks triggered controversy.
An employer who fired a woman for getting pregnant during her probation period has been ordered to pay her 87,000 yuan ($14,200) in compensation, Beijing Times reported on Saturday.
China will use the upcoming Finance Ministers' Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum to coordinate macroeconomic policy better among member economies, and to achieve concrete results, particularly in the infrastructure financing area, Finance Minister Lou Jiwei said.
The Governance of China, President Xi Jinping's new book, is unprecedented. Can analyzing the book elucidate Xi's thinking and illuminate China's future? Consider seven frameworks or perspectives: publishing purposes, overarching themes, content analysis, chain of developmental causation, domestic goals, domestic means and global principles.
Free meals, four months of maternity leave and now egg-freezing: Facebook's latest gift to its employees has rekindled debate on the role of women in the workplace.
When it comes to innovation, most people automatically think of the West and in particular the United States, where some top universities have endowments equal to the national debt of some small countries.
As China endeavors to become the world's leading innovator, several measures are already underway to achieve this goal.
Aconcert hall is like an instrument for an orchestra, Gustavo Dudamel said after leading the debut performance at the new music hall of the Shanghai Symphony last month with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
One of Major League Baseball's wildest postseasons heads into its final chapter as the Kansas City Royals and San Francisco Giants tangle in an unlikely World Series matchup.
More than 160 overseas Chinese academicians and experts from 17 countries including the United States and Canada visited the Zhongguancun Exhibition Center and business incubators for returned Chinese professionals in late September to see the world-leading technologies and innovative working environment.
Connected cars are so desirable in China that demand surpasses even Western auto markets, research company Nielsen found in a recent survey.
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