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[2014-09-26 08:08]

China said on Thursday it will contribute 700 troops to a UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.

We should not merely focus on how many phantom employees were found and how much money was recovered. The government agencies and people responsible for paying those freeloaders should be named and shamed."

The number

[2014-09-26 08:08]

The number of couples of who applied to have a second baby in Beijing by the end of August, according to Zhong Dongbo, deputy head of Beijing's Health and Family Planning Commission.

On the web

[2014-09-26 08:08]

Photo:A woman examines the life-size sculpture of US President Barack Obama in Luoyang, Henan province, on Wednesday.

Around China

[2014-09-25 08:13]

A bus driver who violated the traffic regulations knelt in front of a policeman after he was given a fine in Changsha on Tuesday, Sanxiang City Express reported. The driver was fined 100 yuan ($16) for driving his bus in the wrong lane but wanted the decision retracted.

Quotable

[2014-09-25 08:13]

The iPhone 6 has entered the final stage of the approval process, now it's just a matter of time. Netizens, please wait patiently."

The number

[2014-09-25 08:13]

Output in China's marine economy from January to June rose by 8.6 percent year-on-year to $425 billion.

On the web

[2014-09-25 08:13]

Bilingual: For those of us in the UK with modest expectations, it is exciting enough to see British apples finally back on the shelves after months of woolly-textured imports. But grocery chain Tesco clearly doesn't think the return of the russet is enough to get us to open our wallets. Instead, it is trying to shock us into shelling out with a new, hot-pink variety with a uniquely irritating name, the Surprize (because, the company's fruit product developer explained, "of the fantastic reaction it gets").