A former billionaire accused of bribing the ex-railways minister to obtain business illegally was sentenced to 20 years in prison and fined 2.5 billion yuan ($404 million) on Tuesday.
Beijing No 2 Intermediate People's Court has taken charge of hearing the cases involving ex-railways officials, and has sentenced three people.
The irresistible attractions of online shopping are enticing Asian women into the bedroom late in the evening.
Chinese property developer Greenland Holding Group has broken ground for a project that could be the largest real estate development plan in New York City for 20 years.
A court in northern China cleared a man on Monday of the rape and murder of a woman in a public toilet 18 years after he was executed for the crimes.
· Anhui farmer Zhang Hui and his uncle Zhang Gaoping were convicted of raping and murdering a woman in 2003. The case was overturned in 2013 for lack of evidence. They were each awarded 1.1 million yuan ($180,000) in compensation.
A swarm of heavily armed officers stormed a downtown cafe in Sydney early on Tuesday where a gunman had been holding an unknown number of people.
Hong Kong's Chief Executive, Leung Chun-ying, called on Monday for full respect for the rule of law and the constitutional framework governing the special administrative region's election overhaul.
Canada and China are ready to sign an agreement to return illegal assets seized from fugitives of economic crime, including corrupt officials, according to a senior Canadian diplomat.
China secured deals worth more than $14 billion to enhance connectivity with Kazakhstan, Central Asia's largest economy, in what is another step forward in efforts to revive the ancient transcontinental Silk Road.
To Congress in the US capital, along Fifth Avenue in New York and in front of Boston's Statehouse-tens of thousands of protesters across the US marched to call attention to police killings of unarmed black men and urge lawmakers to take action.
China is planning to setup overseas research centers for pathogens and tropical infectious diseases in Africa to improve international collaboration and to practice a preemptive strategy of epidemic control, according to a senior public health official.
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