China's top court rejected on Thursday an application for a new hearing of an environmental public interest case, upholding the original ruling.
Many parts of China are forecast to experience their lowest temperatures in decades over the weekend, with heavy snowstorms expected to persist in eastern and central areas.
Hong Kong stocks extended their losing run on Thursday amid investors' fears about risks to the local currency and the possible need for mainland resources to defend the city's longtime peg to the US dollar.
Bruce Lee died in 1973, but the image of the superbly conditioned martial artist unleashing lightning-fast kicks and backfists to whiplike sound effects is etched in martial arts lore.
Item from Jan 22, 1989, in China Daily: Women try wigs sold at the Beijing Wig Shop located in Zhushikou Street, one of the busy commercial areas in the capital.
Many workers do not expect any rise in their wages this year, according to the latest job surveys.
Encouraging new driving forces for China's economic development, as well as upgrading traditional industries, will remain singularly important for the State Council this year, Premier Li Keqiang said during a meeting at the State Council on Wednesday.
Accelerated capital outflow in the past year resulted in record high net sales of $465.9 billion in foreign exchange from banks on the Chinese mainland, the central government reported on Thursday.
The number of the military facilities China builds on its South China Sea islands will depend on the level of threat it faces, the nation's Navy chief told his US counterpart on Wednesday, stressing that Beijing does not seek militarization.
Editor's note: When Sino-Egyptian economic relations are further enhanced by the opening of the New Suez Canal and the Belt and Road Initiative, many Egyptians will be making their livings in China, and using their personal backgrounds to contribute to a more consolidated people-to-people contact.