The introduction of the property tax means that the government gets one more income source and its power is extended. It's not good to introduce any kind of new tax as long as the power of the government hasn't been caged."
On his 13th trip to China on Monday, Robert Mugabe, the 90-year-old president of Zimbabwe, saw traditional ties become even closer when the two countries signed nine agreements that are expected to help revive the Zimbabwean economy.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe, president of Zimbabwe, visited China twice before the African country's independence in 1980. He advocated Chairman Mao Zedong's ideology, but didn't meet him during the two visits.
The media have a key role to play in promoting understanding and friendship between China and Australia, a gathering of officials and representatives of mainstream outlets was told on Monday.
The planned revision of the Advertising Law will ban online media promotions and outdoor advertisements of tobacco, an anti-tobacco activist said.
China's patients with chronic heart failure - a serious and common condition in which the heart cannot pump enough blood - will soon have access to the stem-cell-based therapy C-Cure.
From GPS-enabled helmets and long-range night vision goggles to high-powered sniper rifles, the Chinese military has continued upgrading equipment.
A 19-year-old migrant worker in Shenzhen killed her newborn baby by throwing the child out of a sixth-floor window, Southern Metropolis Daily reported on Sunday. The woman, surnamed Wei, killed the baby at about 10 pm on Aug 22 because she did not know how to deal with the situation. Wei reportedly came to Shenzhen from her hometown in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region last year and found a boyfriend there. After they broke up in February, Wei learned she was pregnant but did not tell anyone. A police investigation is ongoing.
"Both of them were wrong. There is no such issue as who negatively influenced whom."