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.
I had a close encounter with a Chinese gentleman in New Zealand over Spring Festival, although I didn't initially know he was Chinese.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Former No 2 military official Xu Caihou, who was placed under investigation for allegedly accepting massive bribes, has died of cancer, China's Military Procuratorate said on Monday.
China will open its lunar exploration program to private enterprises in an attempt to boost technological innovation and break State-owned companies' monopoly in the space field, according to the country's top space authority.
The influential China Central Television program 315 Evening Gala, which usually exposes business misconduct, was 44 minutes late for the first time on Sunday, triggering widespread speculation online.
Premier Li Keqiang said on Sunday that China has many weapons to fight difficulties in its economy and will be able to maintain its growth momentum. He did not say specifically how China will achieve its annual GDP growth target, but said he will not allow the slowdown to continue from last year and derail the plan for increases in employment and incomes.
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