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New laws turn lens on domestic film industry

[2015-10-31 07:58]

A draft law to promote the country's movie industry - widely regarded as a milestone move - was submitted to the country's top legislature for the first-round review on Friday.

Proposed changes aiming to help regulate charities

[2015-10-31 07:58]

A long-awaited draft law to improve China's charitable organizations and the industry was submitted to the nation's top legislative body for the first discussion on Friday.

South China Sea ruling 'null and void', says ministry

[2015-10-31 07:58]

The Foreign Ministry on Friday dismissed a ruling by the Arbitral Tribunal on the jurisdiction and admissibility of the South China Sea issue, saying it is null and void.

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[2015-10-31 07:58]

A court in Tianjin has ordered US oil giant ConocoPhillips to pay 1.68 million yuan ($266,000) to 21 fishermen who claimed that their fishing interests and livelihood were severely damaged by the 2011 Bohai Bay oil spill.

Remembering rain, relatively speaking

[2015-10-30 07:43]

It's been a wettish few months in Beijing but as Einstein said, it's all relative.

This Day, That Year

[2015-10-30 07:43]

Item from Oct 30, 1998, in China Daily: Thanks to the hunting ban and to the care of local people in the Xishuangbanna Dai autonomous prefecture of Southwest China's Yunnan province, the number of wild elephants has risen from 190 nearly two decades a go to 250 at present.

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[2015-10-30 07:43]

More young Chinese are finding ways to spend the coming Halloween.

Looking ahead

[2015-10-30 07:43]

Events and stories coming up in the next few days

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[2015-10-30 07:43]

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Overseas help leads to more fugitives returned

[2015-10-30 07:43]

Hundreds of crime suspects on the run overseas have been streaming back to China at the rate of about two a day, the result of a concerted international drive by the Ministry of Public Security and its counterparts abroad.

More smog due as winter begins

[2015-10-30 07:43]

Unusual weather patterns this winter may lead to more smoggy days in Northern China as emissions from coal-fired boilers become trapped close to the ground, the national environmental watchdog warned on Thursday.

Green victory in court seen as setting trend

[2015-10-30 07:43]

Green organizations won a lawsuit against four men for environmental damage in Nanping, Fujian province, on Thursday in the first-ever public-interest litigation since China's revised Environmental Protection Law took effect on Jan 1.

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