Baseball and softball top the shortlist of sports competing for spots as additional attractions at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, along with the homegrown favorite, karate, organizers said on Monday.
It doesn't help to have a name that resembles a urinary tract infection but Sepp Blatter, the head of global soccer governing body FIFA, has more pressing concerns, even after tendering his resignation having faced what seemed like a daily deluge of corruption allegations.
Item from June 23, 1991, in China Daily: Managers with the Xi'an Measurement Instrument Factory at work on computers in their daily management of the business.
China's stock market has skyrocketed in the past few months, attracting many high school students to join the ride.
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Beijing will create a special nursing home to care for senior citizens who lost their only child and will provide targeted services for them that researchers said should take their emotional feelings into consideration.
China will increase product recalls for ordinary consumer products in an effort to enhance consumer safety, under a draft regulation put forward by the country's quality watchdog.
Editor's note: Talks between China and the United States get underway in Washington on Tuesday (see story on page 1). Here's what happened in previous years:
Chinese space experts have developed an especially sensitive "eye" that enables the autonomous rendezvous and docking of two spacecraft, traveling eight times faster than a bullet, more efficiently and safely.
Millions of yoga enthusiasts bent and twisted their bodies in complex postures across India and much of the world on Sunday to mark International Yoga Day.
The performance of the Chinese national soccer team in the Women's World Cup has reignited the country's enthusiasm for a game once tarnished by lackluster international results and corruption scandals.
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