China released an action plan on Thursday to tackle serious water pollution, aiming to intensify government efforts to reduce emissions of pollutants and to protect supplies.
Jagannath was a play staged in Kolkata in the 1970s. Jagannath (or lord of the world), the protagonist, was a simpleton whose actions were often obscure to common sense. He bullied the weak and, in turn, was bullied by the strong. If he had been harassed less, or had shown more compassion, he would have had a different story to tell.
Item from April 17, 1992, in China Daily: A contingent of Chinese military engineers boards a chartered plane to Phnom Penh, where it will join the United Nations transitional forces charged with keeping peace in Cambodia. The engineers left Beijing yesterday.
Premier Li Keqiang has lambasted redundant and slow procedures that hamper the implementation of central policies, calling for simplified measures and delegation of authority.
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Chinese authorities will cooperate with Indonesia to confiscate more than $500 million of ill-gotten assets illegally transferred to China by corrupt Indonesian banking officials.
China's authorities will initiate a nationwide campaign to prevent corrupt officials from illegally transferring their ill-gotten assets overseas through offshore companies and underground banks, the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said on Thursday.
The newly released water pollution prevention and control action plan will put tough controls on polluting industries with emission limits and provide stricter supervision from authorities and the public.
China maintained its position as the world leader in annual patent applications for the fourth consecutive year in 2014, with 928,000 invention patent applications filed, a 12.5 percent year-on-year increase, the State Intellectual Property Office of China announced on Thursday.
More than 1,600 officials in Guizhou province have been recalled for malfeasance - most of them temporarily - setting a precedent for the management of government officials across the country.
China's economic growth fell to a six-year low of 7 percent in the first quarter, buffeted by sharp declines in industrial production and real estate construction.
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