Keeping up with the news was a very different affair 30 years ago. At a time when subscribing to news papers was generally seen as a luxury, pages were shown publicly in display cases, as in the photo above taken in 1985 in Beijing. People gathered in front of the pages and stretched their necks for a closer look at the small printed characters. In some places people still get their news this way, but most have turned to the Internet. The photo on the right, taken in 2005, shows two generations of surfers online at a restaurant.
Philipp Mattheis knew his gaming app was addictive when he realized he kept checking his phone - hooked by the brightly colored reminders telling him to play again or risk falling from the triple-figure level he had reached.
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The sight of unusual structures popping up on China's skylines could be over now that President Xi Jinping has called for an end to "weird architecture". Here are five buildings that have captured the public's imagination.
Top reform group led by Xi approves option for making watchdogs more effective at all levels
Investments to improve healthcare and teachers' incomes in rural areas have paid off with measurable improvement in students' development in underprivileged areas, but more measures are needed to achieve equality in education, according to the Ministry of Education.
China firmly supports France, still reeling from the Paris terror attacks, in its fight against terrorism and in safeguarding its national security, President Xi Jinping told French Prime Minister Manuel Valls in Beijing on Friday.
The central government has issued a regulation forbidding county authorities in poverty-stricken areas from building lavish office buildings, a senior official said on Friday.
Auguste Rodin's masterpiece The Thinker is on display - chin still resting on fist - at the National Museum of China alongside traditional Chinese art. He might be pondering what China and France have in common, and how to draw the two nations more closely together.
The disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 was officially declared an accident on Thursday under international aviation rules, according to Malaysia's Department of Civil Aviation.
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