Two senior officials who served in corruption-ridden Shanxi province have been removed from their posts and expelled from the Communist Party of China for alleged bribe-taking and adultery, the country's top disciplinary watchdog said.
A senior Party official in Heilongjiang province has been placed under investigation, disciplinary authorities announced.
The 2014 Words of the Year in China are "law" and "anti-corruption" while the Words of the Year worldwide are "lost" and "Malaysia Airlines", according to a decision of the National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center, the Commercial Press and People's Daily released on Friday.
The phrase "new normal" was highlighted at a recent meeting of the Political bureau of the CPC Central Committee to convey the idea that China needs to focus on the quality of its economic development and adapt to a new situation.
China will widen the opening-up of its financial sector by relaxing control over market access for foreign-funded banks, the State Council announced on Saturday in its latest decision to revise regulations on the administration of such banks.
Fans of foreign TV shows who rely on download websites for access to shows not legally licensed in China will no longer have access to them through YYeTS.com because the website announced its formal shutdown on Sunday, Shanghai Morning News reported
"It will help the (transgender community) tremendously, whose voices are hardly heard by the public. It helps with their visibility."
Length of China's first high-speed railway running through the country's southwest karst regions.
Buzzword: "Weisure" (work + leisure) refers to free time spent doing work or work-related tasks. Weisure time is fitting fun around work, rather than fitting work around fun. It's kind of like eating lunch at your desk. Weisure has been fueled by social networking sites like Facebook, where "friends" may actually be business partners or work colleagues.
Another senior official at the China National Petroleum Corp has been removed from his post in the latest move in the anti-corruption drive in the energy sector.
The Ministry of Education will implement stronger scrutiny over the university system's leaders and impose harsher punishments for corruption, the country's top anti-graft agency said on Sunday.
The former deputy head of the Guangzhou Municipal Health Bureau, Qiu Chunlei, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by the Guangzhou Intermediate People's Court for taking bribes of 4.15 million yuan ($675,000) from his mistress and a relative.
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