Item from Jan 5, 1989 in China Daily: "... Han Chinese had followed a Confucian teaching that the hair ... should not be tampered with."
Beijing saw an increasing number of days with blue skies in 2014 but the capital just missed its goal of reducing by 5 percent the average concentration of PM2.5, a major air pollutant. Read the story on page 3.
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China has announced that procurement prices for tobacco leaves will now be set by supply and demand, in a country where one-third of the world's cigarettes are consumed but where sales of high-end cigarettes have dropped during the recent corruption crackdown.
The deaths of five firefighters during the New Year holiday in Northeast China have raised questions among the public about the level of professional is mamong the country's firefighters.
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.
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