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Mothers, babies safer and healthier

[2015-09-05 08:38]

Traditionally, women have chosen to give birth at home in the Tibet autonomous region, which caused dramatic death rates for mothers and newborn babies. But improved maternal care has reversed the trend, Tibet's Women's Federation said.

Zhang Zhen, last of the 1955 lieutenant generals, dies aged 101

[2015-09-05 08:38]

The last man to be made a lieutenant general in 1955, in the most important round of promotions after the founding of the People's Republic of China six years earlier, passed away at 5 pm on Thursday.

IN BRIEF (Page 4)

[2015-09-05 08:38]

The State Council released a plan on Friday to promote a nationwide project to deliver telecom, radio and television, and Internet services over a single broadband connection.

V-Day parade presents collective will for peace

[2015-09-04 07:56]

While the beauty of the season's colors inspired wonderment at Mother Nature's palette and elicited sighs over the transience of such beauty, Thursday's Victory Day commemorations in Beijing provoked dramatically different sentiments.

A watershed moment in China's history

[2015-09-04 07:56]

The lessons learned from a historical disaster may be considered the greatest compensation for the victims. And the lessons China learned from the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), in which nearly 35 million people were killed or injured, have helped it to rise like a phoenix from the devastation of those times.

Nation's military power grows but still trails behind

[2015-09-04 07:56]

China's victory parade in Beijing on Thursday gave military analysts and observers worldwide the chance to see the growth that has turned it into a strong country and an economic powerhouse. But China as a country has a long memory, with many still looking back to the 1930s when a politically fragmented country faced aggression and invasion from its powerful and militaristic neighbor, Japan.