Item from Jan 27, 1996, in China Daily: Qiao Shi, chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, announced the formal establishment of the Preparatory Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region yesterday morning in Beijing ... Qiao said the establishment of the committee is "an important event in the historic process of Hong Kong's return to the motherland" and indicates that the preparatory work for the establishment of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region "is entering a stage of concrete implementation".
Two weeks ago, Beijing rolled out three trains linking its downtown with nearby Yanjiao in Hebei province. But the train times were too early for commuters who live in the county and work in the capital. The trains will be halted next month.
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China's top sports body has decided to downplay the importance of gold medals in assessing the performance of local sports officials. The move comes in the wake of scandals bred by the blind pursuit of glory.
A prison in Northeast China embroiled in allegations of jailhouse sex is now being accused of forcing prisoners to take part in computer games for profit and helping them to commit fraud.
The habitat of the Tibetan antelope in the Hoh Xil area of China's Qinghai province will be nominated as a UNESCO World Natural Heritage site in 2017.
Greece's far-left Syriza party has formed a new coalition government on Monday with a center-right fringe party, but its stance against austerity, privatization, foreign investment, the United States and Germany may create waves of uncertainty in coming days.
China will expand the favorable visa policies of its 1,000 Talent Plan to dozens of other programs nationwide to attract leading professionals to work in the country.
The first group of premium government automobiles to be auctioned off amid the ongoing frugality campaign have gone under the hammer in Beijing.
Officers at a prison in Northeast China have denied that one of their prisoners had sex with a policeman's wife while serving a sentence, according to media reports.
Vo Van Duong's bamboo and coconut leaf house looks much like others deep in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. But unlike them, his seemingly simple abode is designed to withstand typhoons, flooding and earthquakes - and at a cost of less than $4,000 could herald a new wave of cheap, sustainable housing.
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