Four inmates were released on Tuesday under a special amnesty granted by China's top legislature.
People in long lines waited to enter the Hall of Martial Valor in Beijing's Palace Museum, also known as the Forbidden City, on Tuesday. But that was to be expected.
Unopposed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe retained his seat as president of the Liberal Democratic Party on Tuesday, with his only potential rival, senior LDP lawmaker Seiko Noda, failing to elicit enough support to challenge him.
The sharper-than-expected contraction of China's foreign trade in August underscored the weakness of the Chinese economy and increased pressure on policymakers to take more growth-spurring measures, economists said on Tuesday.
President Xi Jinping's state visit to the US later this month will produce fruitful results, according to China's Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai.
Germany is to spend 6 billion euros ($6.6 billion) next year to support the hundreds of thousands of migrants coming to the country.
China, the biggest outbound tourism market, will continue to make rapid strides with trips and overseas consumption, according to a report on Monday.
Beijing is to unite with Tianjin and Hebei province to protect sections of the Great Wall bordering on the three administrative areas, according to the capital's cultural protection authority.
The excitement is settling with the dust stirred up by the impressive convoy of armored vehicles rolling past Tian'anmen Square during the V-Day parade on Sept 3. Up in the sky, the colored clouds trailing China's mighty military jets are also fading.
Item from Sept 8, 1988, in China Daily: A Long March 4 three-stage carrier rocket sits on its assembly platform in Shanghai.
Chinese cellphone users replace their devices every 20 months on average, two months less than those in the US, according to a recent industry report.
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