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Nation and Digest

Beijing, New Delhi establish hotlines to defuse border tensions

[2014-10-21 07:50]

Beijing has praised the "strong" determination that both China and India showed in handling border problems, after the neighbors agreed to establish hotlines and hold regular military meetings to deal with the issue.

Drunken driving crashes, injuries declining

[2014-10-21 07:50]

After drunken driving was made a crime in 2011, the number of traffic accidents caused by driving under the influence of alcohol has been reduced by 25 percent, with casualties down nearly 40 percent, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

Around China

[2014-10-20 07:27]

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.

Quotable

[2014-10-20 07:27]

These 'happy farmhouses' have increased farmers' income and boosted rural construction. They have attracted capital from the city to the countryside and in so doing advanced rural-urban integration."

The number

[2014-10-20 07:27]

Forty chefs worked together to make the world's biggest pumpkin pie in Changsha, capital of Hunan province, on Saturday.

On the web

[2014-10-20 07:27]

Photo: A model presents a creation by Y-Vison Homme during Shanghai Fashion Week in Shanghai on Saturday.

Around China

[2014-10-18 08:41]

Firefighters rescued two climbers after a three-hour search on the Jiankou section of the Great Wall on Wednesday afternoon, Beijing Times reported Friday. The exhausted climbers had called police for help before their cellphones stopped working. Fortunately, they were uninjured when the rescuers located them. The section of the Great Wall they were climbing has many cliffs and has not been restored.