In November 1941, 2,000 young Canadian soldiers crossed the Pacific Ocean and landed in Hong Kong to fight the Japanese army, which was occupying the then-British Crown Colony. More than 500 of them never returned home.
Shao Shikun, 80, a surveyor assigned 40 years ago to help determine the height of Qomolangma, the world's highest mountain, saw many colleagues die during the arduous work.
Additional remnants of a Flying Tiger bomber were found in the Yangtze River in Wangjiang county by a fisherman last week.
Police in Heilongjiang province have broken up a multinational gambling ring involving a website in the Philippines that attracted bettors in China. They have seized more than 80 million yuan ($12.9 million) in gambling funds.
A low-ranking Beijing official has been found to have embezzled 821 million yuan ($132.2 million) to conduct financial transactions, the nation's top graft-busting agency said.
Corrupt officials, from high-ranking executives to lowly bureaucrats, are getting more sophisticated in evading traditional investigations, an anti-graft newspaper reported.
The 10th Chinese Ethnic Games opened on Sunday, and 6,240 athletes from all 56 ethnic groups of China will compete or perform in nearly 200 Chinese traditional sport events in the coming eight days.
A court in Yinchuan has sentenced a kindergarten teacher to life in prison for sexually assaulting 12 girls.
Death penalty or not? That is a question facing judges who handle child-trafficking cases these days.
International agribusiness companies have intensified their efforts to ease public fears over genetically modified products in China, taking to social media platforms to popularize GM science and interact with the public.
A county in Sichuan province has imposed restrictions on banquets, birthday parties and other celebrations in an effort to encourage officials and the public to be frugal.
In the past few decades, China's rise to international prominence has prompted questions about the merits of the national education system compared with those used in the West, and its contribution to the country's rapid development.
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