Item from Aug 19, 1989, in China Daily: Convenient shopping: this farmers' market in a residential quarter of eastern Beijing is now an indispensable part of people's daily lives ... latest statistics show that the markets are becoming increasingly popular nationwide.
A recent poll by the China Youth Daily newspaper showed that more than 23 percent of respondents with a master's degree had a good impression of Japan, compared with 11 percent for all respondents.
Thunderstorms on Tuesday morning made the Tianjin recovery operation more difficult, with an increased risk of rainwater becoming polluted. However, the air and water quality were still within what is considered a safe range, monitoring officials said.
Zero tolerance will be shown by the central government to online rumors, especially those stemming from breaking news, China's Internet watchdog said on Tuesday after last week's fatal blasts in Tianjin.
The insured losses from a series of explosions at a chemical warehouse in Tianjin on Aug 12 are likely to range from $1 billion to $1.5 billion, Fitch Ratings said in a report on Tuesday.
On the side of the mourning wall hangs a board listing the names of firefighters missing since the Tianjin blast with a sentence that reads: "We are here waiting for you to come back."
All toxic sodium cyanide within a 3-kilometer radius of the blast site in Tianjin was to be collected and neutralized before Monday evening, He Shushan, the city's deputy mayor in charge of work safety, said at a news conference on Monday.
Stronger anti-graft teamwork is good for China and the United States, observers said, following a US media report on Sunday questioning "Fox Hunt", China's global manhunt for corrupt officials and economic criminal suspects.
China's soccer reform has taken an eye-catching step forward as the top sports body pledged on Monday to relinquish its administrative grip on the Chinese Football Association, making the association a full-fledged non-governmental organization.
At least 19 people, including three Chinese citizens, were killed on Monday when a bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded outside a shrine in the Thai capital.
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