As Los Angeles celebrates its fifth consecutive year of record-breaking tourism, officials can thank in part visitors from China who, despite their reputed disdain for lying on the beach, now make up the second-largest group of international travelers to this sun-drenched city.
In a country as big and diverse as China, the number of Chinese dialects is more than 100 and many of them are mutually unintelligible. In an online ranking, Chinese netizens voted via their micro blogs for "China's eight most difficult dialects".
China has no intention to stimulate exports through competitive currency devaluation, and there is no basis for the renminbi to continue exchange rate depreciation, Premier Li Keqiang said while meeting with Suma Chakrabarti, president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on Friday in Beijing.
Sichuan's provincial governor is suspected of severely violating Party discipline, the top discipline watchdog of Communist Party of China said on Friday.
China's corruption busters used popular culture examples on Friday in outlining how discipline for errant Party members could be harsher than that required by the Chinese law.
The fight against formalism, bureaucracy, hedonism and extravagance intensified in 2015.
The delayed Colombo Port City project, a plan to create a South Asian financial hub, has been given the green light, the Sri Lankan ambassador to China confirmed on Friday.
China should introduce more kinds of lotteries and ease the buying process for its citizens, industry experts said, as many Chinese joined the rush this week to buy tickets for the record Powerball jackpot in the United States.
Gambling-loving Chinese people from across the country bought Powerball lottery tickets through contacts in the United States, hoping to defy the 292 million-to-1 odds against winning the $1.6 billion record jackpot.
Islamic State-linked attackers struck the capital of Muslim-majority Indonesia on Thursday, executing a Westerner and blowing up a Starbucks in an assault that left seven dead, police said.
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