Sydney newspaper makes Spring Festival a banner event

To celebrate Chinese New Year, a major English-language newspaper in Australia adopted a Chinese titlepiece on Thursday, the first day of Spring Festival.

Chinese pair in line for one-way trips to Mars

Two Chinese nationals are in the running to become astronaut candidates for supposedly one-way trips to Mars, the Red Planet.

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Legislator who built secret basement is facing arrest

Prosecutors have issued an arrest warrant for a legislator blamed when the illegal construction of a basement under his Beijing courtyard home in Xicheng district caused a road to collapse.

People 'overreacted' to shortened name

Dropping the word 'friendship" from the official abbreviated title of the China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing just brings the name in line with new guidelines, the hospital said on Monday.

Lineup for CCTV Spring Festival gala

1 Opening show: Happy Family for All (performers: Tao Yuling, Lei Kesheng, Zhang Kaili, Han Tongsheng, Tong Dawei, Guan Yue, Zhang Junhao, Li Guangyi, Yang Hongji, Liu Bingyi, Yu Shuzhen, Di Fenglian, Zhu Mingying, Guan Mucun, Deng Yuhua)

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Policies designed to halt hidden bribes

China is turning its attention to highlighting the hidden ways in which officials are paid bribes, with plans to regulate prepaid gift cards as part of its anti-corruption campaign.

Luxury golf club 'ignored govt ban'

A luxury golf club in suburban Shanghai that charges membership fees as high as 1.46 million yuan ($233,400) was still running on Monday, though it had been exposed as being illegally built and operated for four years.

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A total of 110 people died of food poisoning in China last year, a 0.9 percent increase from the previous year, according to statistics from the National Health and Family Planning Commission. The commission said the number of people who suffered from food poisoning last year rose by 1.8 percent to 5,657 in 160 separate incidents.

Pakistan attaches highest importance to Xi visit

President Xi Jinping's expected visit to Pakistan this year will "mark a visible upgrading" of the bilateral relationship and add new substance to current strategic ties, a visiting senior Pakistani diplomat has told China Daily.