The long-planned BRICS New Development Bank opened in Shanghai on Tuesday as preparations for the start of operations at the end of the year or in early 2016 were stepped up.
Earth turned up the heat in June, smashing high temperature records for both the month and the first half of the year.
The top leadership's announcement of the decision to prosecute Ling Jihua, a former State-level official, on corruption charges has attracted widespread attention in the Chinese media, traditional as well as online.
The Japanese Cabinet has triggered an angry response from its Asian neighbors after it approved an annual defense white paper, a document that in belligerent terms accuses China of raising regional tensions.
There are a lot of lessons to be learned from television. Apart from the usual news and documentaries, there is a new genre of entertainment that gives new meaning to the journalistic principles of "inform, educate and entertain".
Item from July 22, 1991, in China Daily: Goods trains started to run between China and the Soviet Union on Saturday, in a trial operation for the second Eurasian continental railway bridge ... The railway will cut the travel time from the Western Pacific to Europe by 70 percent compared with the trans-Siberian railway line. Transportation costs will be cut by a third.
About one-fifth of respondents in a recent China Youth Daily survey said online rumors about the stock market had influenced their investment decisions.
The Chinese navy announced 10 days of military training in the waters near eastern Hainan Island in the South China Sea starting on Wednesday, amid heightened tensions in the region.
President Xi Jinping called for more economic cooperation between China and New Zealand as he met with Jerry Mateparae, the country's governor-general, on Tuesday in Beijing.
The UN special envoy for Syria called on all nations to face the Islamic State group in a "united, international way" to keep more people from joining the extremist militants.
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