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
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.
Premier Li Keqiang firmly supports the idea to build a cross-Bohai Strait passage, equivalent to nearly two times the length of the UK's Channel Tunnel, a move to promote regional logistics and encourage investment.
The comments of the senior national human trafficking task force officer on what should be done with traffickers have triggered widespread discussion.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
Joy Bryant, an actress and former fashion model, said, "I kind of do high-low style a lot."