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Premier Li Keqiang invites an NPC deputy from Shandong province to give his opinions of the Government Work Report on Friday. Li extended a meeting to hear from Wang Tingjiang (right), who had raised his hand as the meeting was closing.  Wu Zhiyi / China Daily

Xi tackles pollution on two fronts

Party chief and President Xi Jinping pledged on Friday to clear up two kinds of pollution - political and environmental - that have caused the most public concern.

China

Official's tough talk gets praise

The comments of the senior national human trafficking task force officer on what should be done with traffickers have triggered widespread discussion.

Comment

Bring home the shopping sprees

Chinese people have long been renowned for luxurious shopping when traveling overseas, the articles they purchase ranging from jewelry and expensive clothes to luxury handbags and watches. So the expectation about reports of Chinese tourists coming back from overseas trips after their Spring Festival holidays was they would offer no surprises.

Business

Registration-based IPOs likely this year

The registration-based system for initial public offerings, a key driver of the nation's capital market reform, is likely to be implemented this year and the Shanghai Stock Exchange is getting ready to handle the responsibility, the bourse's Chairman Gui Minjie said on Friday in Beijing.

Hospitality

Hoteliers stay positive despite New York slump

On 41st Street near Times Square, a Hyatt Place hotel is under construction. The shell of a Hampton Inn sits one block to the west. Nearby, scaffolding heralds a new Holiday Inn.

Sports

Major events in your own living room

Imagine sitting on Center Court at Wimbledon, ringside at a Las Vegas heavyweight boxing title fight, or among the VIPs at an NBA game - all from the comfort of your own home.

World

Govt: IS 'bulldozes' ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud

The Islamic State group has begun ravaging the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud in Iraq, the government said, in the extremists' latest attack on the country's heritage.

Cover Story

The rise of 3-D printing

The potential for three-dimensional printing, also known as additive manufacturing or rapid prototyping, is so huge that some predict it could usher in the Third Industrial Revolution.

Travel

Revisiting Tokyo

By 3 am, I was dancing to Material Girl with a Japanese man in a plaid vest. We were on the crowded dance floor of a disco on the second floor of a nondescript office building tucked at the end of a little alley in Shinjuku Ni-chome, Tokyo's gay district.

Taste

A Love Letter to a Smelly Fruit

When my friend Bob Halliday thinks about durians, the tropical fruit that some say smells like garbage, he not only salivates with delighted anticipation, but he also "foams like a geyser".

Goings On

Lead low I like, high I dislike

Joy Bryant, an actress and former fashion model, said, "I kind of do high-low style a lot."

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