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Top court to issue guidelines on illegal collection of evidence

[2014-12-09 08:05]

The top court is planning to issue guidelines on the exclusion of illegal evidence to protect human rights and prevent miscarriages of justice, said a judicial expert.

Terrorist couldn't understand the Quran

[2014-12-09 08:05]

Religious extremism is at the root of terrorism and leads to violence such as the attacks in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, experts said as a Urumqi court delivered eight death sentences on Monday in connection with attacks in the region's capital.

Timeline

[2014-12-09 08:05]

CATALOG OF TERROR IN XIN JIANG

Around China

[2014-12-08 07:39]

The State Archives Administration released a 10-minute video on its website on Sunday documenting the Nanjing Massacre.

Quotable

[2014-12-08 07:39]

The past 15 years, since Macao's return to the motherland, is its fastest-growing period. Most of the Macao people are fully aware that Macao is a special administrative region under China's sovereignty. The SAR's interests can be safeguarded only when the country's interests are safeguarded."

The number

[2014-12-08 07:39]

China has identified 128,000 impoverished villages and 92 million people living in poverty, said a senior poverty alleviation official on Saturday at a seminar in Hubei province.

On the web

[2014-12-08 07:39]

Culture: People usually associate archaeological discoveries with ancient tombs and unearthed cultural relics. Seldom do they link them with food.

Around China

[2014-12-06 08:07]

Residents dredging a river in Yancheng last week made an unusual find - an 80-centimeter, 1,958-gram branchlike item, which was identified as an elk horn subfossil dating back 6,000 years, Modern Express reported on Friday.

Quotable

[2014-12-06 08:07]

The case is under investigation at the moment. Initial results show that this is probably a case of telecommunications fraud."

The number

[2014-12-06 08:07]

6.8-7.1 magnitude earthquake struck an area in what is now Henan province between 1500 and 1260 BC, apparently the earliest known tremor in China's history, according to Xinhua News Agency.China did not start keeping seismological records until 843 BC, during the Western Zhou Dynasty (c.11th century-771BC).

On the web

[2014-12-06 08:07]

Buzzword: Ten years after setting a trend with its workplace smoking ban, Ireland is pushing ahead to become the first EU state with plain packaging for cigarettes, despite fierce opposition from tobacco companies. Lawmakers will vote on proposals to introduce plain packaging in the new year. Under draft legislation before parliament, all forms of branding, including logos and colors, would be banned, and all products would have uniform packaging with graphic health warnings.

Beijing looks for 10-year pledge on climate policy

[2014-12-06 08:07]

A new global climate agreement to be signed next year in Paris should cover all key elements and be effective for 10 years, the deputy head of China's delegation at the United Nations climate talks in Lima, Peru, said on Thursday.

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