A man who raped and murdered a woman in 1996 - a crime for which an innocent man was wrongly executed - was sentenced to death on Monday for those crimes and for killing nine other people.
To clean up scandals in Chinese sports, the country's sports authorities should end the obsession with winning medals by introducing more diversified criteria for performance assessments than merely the results of competitions, observers said.
Hundreds of people were invited via the Internet to taste genetically modified rice at restaurants in 23 cities across China on Sunday in a move to further promote GM foods to the general public.
Five members of a Mafia-style gang were executed on Monday in Hubei province.
Arrangements are being made for Xi Jinping to pay his first state visit later this year to the United States as president of China, a senior Chinese diplomat confirmed.
China's foreign trade stumbled by 10.8 percent to 2.09 trillion yuan ($341 billion) on a year-on-year basis in January, pushing the country to accelerate the pace of restructuring.
Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi, who starred in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Memoirs of a Geisha, was reported to have accepted a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Chinese rock star Wang Feng.
The anti-graft and frugality policies will play a role in the 2015 Spring Festival Gala, as the most-watched show in China says 'no' to actors and actresses caught up in scandalous or illegal behavior.
I could tell that Holmes was preoccupied. His toast remained unbuttered and the marmalade spoon was still clean.
Item from Feb 9, 1985, in China Daily: An Air Force plane spreads seeds over a mountain to build forests.
The discipline inspection commission of Hebei province recently criticized 13 cases of officials receiving presents and dining with government budgets ahead of festivals.
What our reporters and editors will be following today. See breaking news on chinadaily.com.cn
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