Wang Jie, who personifies greed and lust, allegedly collected more than 7 million yuan ($1.1 million) in donations in nine years through his illegal private website that claimed to help children from poor families in Longlin county, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. A big chunk of the donations went into Wang's pocket, and he used it as a tool to force teenage girl victims into sex trade.
In his speech on Thursday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) and World War II, President Xi Jinping announced China would cut the number of its troops by 300,000.
China marked the 70th anniversary of the victory in the Chinese People's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) and World War II with various activities and a victory parade in Beijing on Thursday. In his speech on the occasion, President Xi Jinping thanked the people from foreign countries that helped China fight the Japanese aggressors.
A photograph of a Syrian refugee, resignation writ large on his face, carrying his sleeping 4-year-old daughter while hawking pens on a street in Beirut, triggered an online campaign that raised about $108,551 in 24 hours a week ago. The good Samaritan who posted the photograph using the hashtag #buypens on the Internet was a Norwegian activist named Gissur Simonarson.
The sights and sounds of celebratory drums, lion dancers and the Boy Scouts of Troop 485 presenting the United States colors drew media outlets from around the world to the heart of San Francisco's Chinatown on Aug 15 to record the work of community volunteers, US war veterans and other dignitaries at the opening of the nation's first World War II Pacific War Memorial Hall.
Republic of Korea President Park Geun-hye will visit China from Sept 2 to 4 to attend the commemorative activities to be held in Beijing on the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II and Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45). Her itinerary will also take her to Shanghai for the re-opening of the Office of the Provisional Government of Korea, which was established by some Korean exiles in 1919, nine years after Japan annexed the Korean Peninsula.
After 40-plus-hours of talks at the border village of Panmunjom, the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea agreed on Tuesday to defuse tensions by withdrawing the highest-alert orders to their troops.
Mounting inflation pressure is a prime concern when a country's central bank loosens its monetary policy to boost economic growth, which the People's Bank of China did on Tuesday by cutting the interest rate and deposit reserve ratio. To avoid triggering high inflation, therefore, a country should loosen its monetary policy only when inflation pressure is low.
For 40-year-old Sergeant Major Ding Hui, being in Tian'anmen Square on Sept 3 does not only mean that he will take part in a national military parade for the third time.
Xu Huiqing has spent her entire life surrounded by the woodland around Yichun, China's "forest capital", in Heilongjiang province.
Ask anyone in Yichun, Heilongjiang province, for the name of the person who knows the surrounding mountains and forests best and you'll get the same answer: Gege Shanhuo, or "Brother Mountain Food".
Doctor Huang Zhiqiang had a simple funeral. He left his body for medical research.
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