The upcoming Year of the Sheep, regarded as the most inauspicious for childbirth according to Chinese superstition, is resulting in sluggish business for maternity hospitals and service providers.
Elite French forces surrounded two brothers on Friday who are suspected of slaughtering 12 people during an Islamist massacre in Paris earlier this week.
Private transport in China has changed dramatically in the past two decades.
When China's "Mr Olympics", He Zhenliang, died on Jan 4, the worldwide Olympic family grieved.
He Zhenliang, known as China's "Mr Ambassador", died of an illness last week. The International Olympic Committee directed that the Olympic flag be flown at half-staff for three days in tribute..
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Inflation rebounded slightly in December, and the country saw a two-year low in factory gate prices, reflecting weakness in demand and further pressure on policy easing.
The People's Bank of China will continue to maintain a "prudent" monetary policy in 2015 while fine-tuning the policy when necessary, the regulator said in an online statement on Friday.
The stage is now set for Beijing and Latin American and Caribbean countries for the next five years to bring the relationship to an unprecedented level.
China's top science award was presented on Friday to nuclear physicist Yu Min, whose work led to a major breakthrough in the country's hydrogen bomb research.
Jaycee Chan, the son Chinese kung fu superstar Jackie Chan, was sentenced to six months in prison on Friday and fined 2,000 yuan ($322) for facilitating the drug use of others.
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