Beijing witnessed an increasing number of days with blue skies in 2014, a clear improvement in air pollution control, while the reduction in the average concentration of PM2.5, a major air pollutant, failed to reach the annual goal by a hair, the municipal environmental watchdog said on Sunday.
China's sports community was mourning the passing of veteran sports official He Zhenliang, highlighting his irreplaceable contribution to China's positive image in the international Olympic family.
Twenty-nine people remained hospitalized on Friday after a stampede at the Bund, a well-known tourist site in Shanghai, that killed 36 others on New Year's Eve.
High-ranking diplomat Zhang Kunsheng has been placed under investigation on suspicion of "breaching discipline", a term usually used in reference to corruption, the Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday.
Cancer is often caused by the "bad luck" of random mutations that arise when cells divide, not family history or environmental factors, US researchers said on Thursday.
Residents arrived at the Bund, a stretch of river bank on the west side of the Huangpu River in Shanghai, on Thursday to mourn and pray for the 36 people that died in a stampede on New Year's Eve.
December has traditionally been the busiest month for tenants of Hecheng, the biggest calendar - wholesale market in Guangdong province's capital Guangzhou - but not this year.
The Republic of Korea's Ministry of Unification said on Thursday that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea should respond to its offer of talks if it wants to improve relations.
A senior Chinese diplomat has suggested that Asia will be "the starting point" for forging a new type of relationship between China and the United States.
In his New Year address on Wednesday, President Xi Jinping pledged to further deepen the nation's overall reform and to promote the rule of law, comparing them to "a bird's two wings".
A body recovered on Wednesday from the crashed AirAsia plane was wearing a life jacket, an Indonesian search and rescue official said, raising new questions about how the disaster unfolded.
The parents of Hugjiltu, an 18-year-old man of the Mongolian ethnic group, who was wrongly executed 18 years ago are to receive 2.05 million yuan ($335,000) in compensation, the higher court of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region said on Wednesday.
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