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Lawyers question 1995 execution of 21-year-old

[2015-03-18 07:51]

Two lawyers representing the family of Nie Shubin, who was executed in 1995 after being convicted of raping and killing a woman in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, went to the Shandong High People's Court on Tuesday to read judicial documents related to the case.

Nation sets sights on World Cup

[2015-03-17 07:56]

Once regarded as unattainable dreams, hosting and eventually winning the soccer World Cup have become serious goals for China under a national plan unveiled on Monday to make the sport a truly mass game.

Ex-security chief 'had ties with other top graft suspects'

[2015-03-17 07:56]

Former security chief Zhou Yongkang is suspected to have established close connections with other allegedly corrupt officials, according to a magazine website report.

Fatal bombing to be investigated jointly

[2015-03-17 07:56]

A working group from Myanmar has arrived in a border area for a joint investigation with China into a bombing by a Myanmar warplane that killed and injured Chinese.

Putin puts an end to rumors

[2015-03-17 07:56]

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed days of frenzied rumors over his health and whereabouts on Monday when he appeared in public after an unusually long 10-day absence.

Tourist drivers seen as hazards in NZ

[2015-03-17 07:56]

I had a close encounter with a Chinese gentleman in New Zealand over Spring Festival, although I didn't initially know he was Chinese.

This Day, That Year

[2015-03-17 07:56]

Item from March 17, 1999, in China Daily: Farmers from Fotang in Zhejiang's Yiwu county buy high-yield paddy rice seeds. With spring planting looming, the China Paddy Rice Research Institute took several paddy rice varieties to the farmers. High-yield crops are expected to boost China's grain output by 4 million tons this year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

Hot topic

[2015-03-17 07:56]

State broadcaster China Central Television recently reported that two major Chinese telcos were reluctant to halt numbers that scammers allegedly used to steal money from their victims' mobile phone accounts.

Looking ahead

[2015-03-17 07:56]

Major air show

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[2015-03-17 07:56]

Teacher-student relations

Xi greets president of Harvard

[2015-03-17 07:56]

President Xi Jinping called for more people-to-people exchanges between China and the United States on Monday as he received visiting Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust for the second time in seven years.

Home purchase limits 'unchanged'

[2015-03-17 07:56]

Shanghai's housing authority said on Monday that the city will not scrap or loosen its home-buying restrictions, as some in the market have speculated. Current policies on home purchases will continue, officials said.

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