Lord Charles Powell, who served as an aide to former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher during the negotiations for the handover of Hong Kong in 1997, wants to see Britain keep moving closer to China.
Real estate tycoon Pan Shiyi and his wife, Zhang Xin, donated $10 million to Yale University on Wednesday, despite a $15 million donation to Harvard in July that aroused debate on the Internet, including criticism that urged the couple to put more into domestic education.
Two cities in Hebei province that are close to Beijing are considering giving residents a six-day holiday in an effort to improve air quality during the APEC meeting.
Armed police began to patrol the venue where the APEC meeting will be held, the Beijing Huairou International Conference Center, on Monday, Beijing News reported.
Scientists have finished the genome sequencing of the Chinese jujube tree, and their new insights are expected to aid development of higher-quality fruit.
An 11-month-old baby who had 16 needles inserted in her body has had an operation during which all remaining needles were removed, and she is recovering in a hospital.
Prosecuting departments will step up efforts to identify false evidence presented by public security officials to prevent miscarriages of justice, a senior official from the Supreme People's Procuratorate said on Wednesday.
A promising tennis player has the potential to become China's next Li Na, with her talent, foreign coaching and professional approach, observers say.
A federation of trade unions was launched on Tuesday at Taiwanese footwear giant Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings in Gaobu town, Dongguan, Guangdong province, after the company saw massive strikes in April over underpaid contributions to workers' social insurance benefits.
Jin Shengguo, a veteran maintenance worker for the Yangtze River Wanzhou Waterway Management Administration in Chongqing, never imagined that navigating the Bayang Gorge, one of the river's deepest and narrowest waterways, could ever be safe and comfortable.
One of the companies to have benefited from the construction of the Three Gorges Dam is the Chongqing Iron & Steel Group. The company has made huge savings because the cost of transporting goods on the waterway has fallen as a result of improved conditions on the Yangtze River.
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