Lifestyle: Chinese singer Li Yugang, who rose to fame on the hit talent show Star Avenue, reportedly converted to Buddhism. A photo taken by a tourist shows Li folding his hands while wearing traditional Buddhist clothing at a temple in Taipei. Media workers close to Li said his decision was made because he sought serenity from his troubled emotional life.
China intends to create a monitoring system to oversee all types of pollutants in all areas and demand more effective action from protection teams, top environmental officials said on Monday.
Journalism and media specialists underscored the necessity of making a communication law in China after the former head of the nation's press and publication authority revealed that legislators are studying such a law.
Prosecutors launched an investigation into a top police officer in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for suspected abuse of power and graft, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said on Monday.
The public is being encouraged to send inspectors text messages to report corruption among civil servants.
Unlicensed radio operators have become a major - and even dangerous - annoyance to city administrators and residents, Chinese media reported.
A new report showed that left-behind children, whose parents work in cities far from home, experience more accidental injuries, according to people.
An electronic toll collection lane equals five other lanes where tolls are collected manually, as transit time is cut to three seconds from 14 seconds. It can ease traffic jams substantially.
74 percent of primary and middle schools in China have access to the Internet this year, up from less than 25 percent in 2011, according to the Ministry of Education. Multimedia classrooms, now totaling 2.2 million, are available in 73 percent of the schools that offer compulsory education, ministry statistics show.
Photo: A cat lies on a desk at a store in Nanjing, Jiangsu province, on Saturday. The store, which combines a cat cafe with a bookshop, opened to the public on Saturday, and is the first of its kind in China. Hard-core cat lovers are welcome to spend time with their favorite felines while reading in the shop.
The economic growth of the Chinese gambling hub of Macao may slow dramatically to 2 to 3 percent this year, a senior Macao official said, after the city reported its first year-on-year economic contraction since 2009 in the third quarter as President Xi Jinping tackles corruption and excessive spending of public funds.
Baccarat winnings on the Las Vegas Strip fell 36 percent to $97 million in October, echoing declines in Macao, where an anti-corruption drive in China has crimped high-end play.
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