The nation's top health authority is pushing for a hike in the cigarette tax and retail prices to curb smoking in China, the world's largest tobacco producer and consumer, a senior health official said.
Beijing has announced rulings in nine cases of austerity violations amid the national campaign to ensure clean governance and crack down on undesirable work practices.
Yunnan province's disciplinary watchdog has expelled 41 members of the Communist Party of China for using drugs, as local authorities launch an intensified campaign to fight corruption and crack down on illegal substance use.
Police in Handan, Hebei province, are investigating the disappearance of more than 100 Vietnamese women who married local bachelors, and had been living in local villages. They vanished at the end of November.
A woman and two men from China pleaded guilty in federal court in Las Vegas on Tuesday to reduced charges in what prosecutors say amounted to a $13 million illegal Internet gambling operation broken up by an FBI raid on high-roller suites at Caesars Palace.
Scientific experiments carried out by China within its borders are normal, conducted according to a schedule, and are not directed against any specific country or target, the Ministry of National Defense said.
The Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall said on Wednesday - Human Rights Day - 3,361 survivors and relatives of the massacre victims have sent a letter to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and human rights officials to call for Japan's introspection over history.
China will draw up management measures for its new South-South Cooperation Fund soon, the head of the Chinese delegation to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, said on Tuesday.
Historians, scholars and curators of the world's major anti-fascist museums and memorials gathered in Beijing on Wednesday, the 67th global Human Rights Day, and called for the creation of a world union to enhance exchanges and cooperation and share information for research.
Hong Kong police officers are expected to move into the main protest camps outside government headquarters in the Admiralty district on Thursday to reopen traffic on a coastal thoroughfare that has been blocked for more than 10 weeks.
Mr Sun, a senior administrator at a golf club in Beijing, has no idea if he will still have a job in March because the club is the subject of an official investigation and faces closure.
Five cases were exposed on the website of the National Development and Reform Commission this year.
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