China will strengthen financial intelligence exchanges with the United States and Australia to track corrupt Chinese officials' illegal assets and fight money laundering, a senior official from the Ministry of Justice said.
This year, 105 Siberian tiger cubs, one of the world's most endangered animals, were born at a tiger park in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, the park said on Sunday.
The Chinese embassy in Indonesia urged local authorities on Sunday to thoroughly investigate a recent high-profile rape case involving a Chinese woman and two Indonesian airport security officers.
Beijing's public transportation system adopted a new fare structure on Sunday in the first ticket price rise in seven years, and authorities warned of a crowded rush hour on Monday as passengers familiarize themselves with the new system.
Beijing began trial operations on four new subway lines on Sunday in its latest effort to ease the city's traffic jams.
"I think the fares are still incredibly cheap when compared with cities like London, Madrid and New York. I know they have risen quite a lot in relative terms here, but it is still very good value for tourists like us."
English training classes from K-12 levels seem to have recovered from shrinking numbers last year, following plans to reform the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, educators said.
Adele Bai, general manager and executive vice-president of EF Education First Kids & Teens China, a Swedish-owned global language teaching company
Gong Yafu, president of the National Association of Foreign Languages
Pilot programs for the national college entrance exam, or gaokao, began this fall semester for high school 10th-graders in Shanghai and Zhejiang.
This year has witnessed an increasing number of young Chinese heading to the United States to study, with growth expected to continue in 2015 even as competition for admissions gets increasingly fiercer.
A local official known as "Uncle House" was sentenced to 20 years in prison for embezzlement, abuse of power and taking bribes on Friday.
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