Investor Frans Broersen has been flying to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for years with "bags full of money" and has returned with hundreds of works of art.
Provincial-level governments in China have lowered their annual economic growth targets amid the unprecedented slowdown in the national economy.
More than 200 senior People's Liberation Army officers have been reprimanded, demoted or removed from their posts for problems exposed by military auditors, PLA Daily reported on Thursday.
Everyone at the table has stopped eating. The Chinese dinner guests are staring at me with expressions ranging from abject horror to sheer disbelief.
Item from Jan 30, 1986, in China Daily: Heads of state and government, scientists and ordinary people around the world were saddened by the explosion on Tuesday of the US space shuttle Challenger which killed all seven of its crew, including teacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe. President Li Xiannian sent a message yesterday to US President Ronald Reagan, expressing his "deepest sympathy" over the disaster.
A prisoner in Heilongjiang province allegedly used a smartphone to blackmail a woman into visiting him in jail for sex.
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China and France reinforced their ties with new deals in nuclear power, aviation and ecological protection on Thursday, and the two sides promised to reduce Beijing's widening trade gap with Paris.
China will continue its efforts to protect African elephants and curb the illegal ivory trade by cracking down on the black market.
The Ministry of Commerce said on Thursday that it will step up efforts to stop the sale of counterfeit goods in China's burgeoning e-commerce market, after the country's largest consumer-to-consumer online market, Taobao, was accused of tolerating the sale of fakes.
China will manufacture and begin trial runs of a new "Chinese-standard" bullet train this year, according to the State-owned railway operator.
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