ZOU PING, former vice-mayor of Nanchong in Southwest China's Sichuan province, was recently sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption and other crimes.
A TRUCK CARRYING 20 TONS OF APPLES on Monday rolled over on an expressway near Biyang in Central China's Henan province, and a host of local residents plundered the "windfall" until the police showed up and forced them to leave. Three of the residents involved were later detained. Comments:
THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT in Bazhong, Sichuan province in Southwest China, has reportedly issued an order to hunt and kill all stray dogs, as well as large and ferocious dogs that have not been vaccinated. This has triggered a heated online debate. Comments:
The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, has decided to set some convicts free as part of the activities to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory of Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45).
Liu Cixin has won this year's Hugo Award for Best Novel for his The Three-Body Problem. In doing so, Liu has become the first Chinese science-fiction writer to win such a prestigious international award.
Thanks to foreigners' poor knowledge of what Yasukuni Shrine actually represents, the Japanese government has become used to defending the practice of paying homage to the war dead at the site, which among others honors 14 Class-A war criminals of World War II.
If the ongoing turbulence in the global stock markets, the Chinese stock market in particular, is a cause for alarm, increasing uncertainties about the prospects for global growth justify urgent measures to shore up economic growth.
It is a great relief that the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea reached a deal on Tuesday to ease the tensions that had built up on the Korean Peninsula since last week.
The death penalty with two year's reprieve usually represents a guarantee that the convict will never be executed and will probably have a chance of being released on bail for medical treatment or have his or her term of imprisonment reduced.
JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER Shinzo Abe will not attend China's commemorative events in early September to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, Japan's government spokesman Yoshihide Suga confirmed on Monday. Instead, Tokyo will "further develop the relationship between the two nations by creating opportunities for the leaders to have talks at international conferences and other events". Comments:
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