It's Christmas, and the little town of Bethlehem is jammed with a big-city problem-traffic snarling streets everywhere, including around the church marking the spot where tradition says Jesus was born.
Chinese lawmakers began to consider a proposed revision to the country's Food Safety Law on Monday, including mandatory labeling of all goods containing genetically modified organisms.
China is sending an infantry battalion to South Sudan soon. It will be the first time female soldiers - 13 of them - have taken part in an armed operation on a United Nations peacekeeping mission.
Ling Jihua, 58, a senior Party official and national political adviser, is under investigation for "suspected serious disciplinary violations".
A lavish villa in the French Riviera city of Cannes linked to fallen senior Chinese official Bo Xilai has been put up for sale for 6.95 million euros ($8.5 million), highlighting China's efforts to recover corrupt officials' illegally acquired assets.
A 5-year-old boy and his 7-year-old brother were recovering in an Australian hospital on Monday after they and their father survived in the wilderness for 10 days.
China is poised to become a net capital exporter for the first time, with total overseas direct investment exceeding foreign direct investment by the end of the year, the head of a top Chinese think tank said at a forum on Sunday.
The country is stepping up its antitrust enforcement efforts to safeguard national security, said Wang Shouwen, assistant minister of commerce.
China's top diplomat is offering Beijing's assistance to Moscow, as pessimism is spreading about the uncertainties of the Russian economy.
China's health authority has pledged to assure Kun Kun, an 8-year-old boy with HIV/AIDS, the right to medical treatment, a living allowance and a school education.
Christmas has exploded in China in recent years, with marketeers using everything from saxophones to Smurfs to steam trains to get shoppers to open their wallets.
The central government has decided to demarcate the maritime zones of the Macao Special Administrative Region, President Xi Jinping said on Friday.
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