A top Chinese think tank said that homeowners should be allowed to use their mortgage interest payments to lower their tax liability, and that costs associated with buying a home be slashed to support the market.
The police will set up a special task force to investigate and squelch the online promotion of prostitution, which has been expanding via social media in the Pearl River Delta cities of Guangdong province.
The heavily polluted cluster of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei province signed a cooperation framework on Thursday to control air, water and soil pollution, marking a breakthrough in regional integration, according to a statement released by the Beijing Municipal Environmental Protection Bureau.
Shen Peiping, 53, former vice-governor of Yunnan province, was sentenced to 12 years in prison for accepting bribes worth around 16 million yuan ($2.5 million), a Beijing court announced on Thursday.
Most city residents with mobile phones and Internet access need not bother leaving the house to take a delivery - food, clothing or even fresh vegetables or meat they booked online for dinner. Deliveries can come right to their door.
Three years ago, five "left-behind" children died after they crawled into a refuse container on a freezing winter day and lit a fire to keep warm, but were overcome by carbon monoxide fumes.
My neighborhood hair salon just shut down. The one I've been going to ever since I arrived in Hong Kong. Just like that.
Item from Dec 3, 1998, in China Daily: Forestry officials rescue ring-necked pheasants from cramped cages outside a restaurant in Beijing yesterday. The birds are under municipal protection. ... The restaurant, called Guifuyuan, is located west of the Kunlun Hotel in Chaoyang district.
Smartphone "mobile wallet" apps for online financial transactions are becoming more popular.
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