Are some alphabets and numerals superior to others? The answer is "yes" for Song Jianguo, former Beijing traffic police chief. On Monday, Song was accused in court of taking 24 million yuan ($4 million) in bribes by misusing his power to grant license plates starting with "Jing A" or "Jing A8", which had been frozen for more than a decade, to his "customer friends". In auto plates, "jing" is the Chinese character shortened for Beijing.
Recent months have seen the flow of unwelcome undercurrents impeding the good momentum in China-US ties, with Washington labeling unwarranted charges against China over a number of issues. This has raised concerns on both sides. And whether or not the United States Congress approves the renewal of the China-US pact on civil nuclear cooperation will serve as a barometer to gauge the political relations between the two big powers.
China has begun to construct two multifunctional lighthouses in the South China Sea to improve navigational safety, the Ministry of Transport said on Tuesday.
Thirty-eight people were killed and six injured in a fire at a rest home in central China's Henan province on Monday night, local authorities said on Tuesday.
Baoding has drawn up a blueprint for transforming itself into a central city in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region.
A morality bank in a northeastern Chinese city has seen residents flocking to open accounts that enable them to exchange good deeds for free services.
A navy plane whose engine caught on fire crashed into woods, killing an instructor and a student pilot who were unable to escape by parachute, the navy said on Tuesday.
Cao Baoming is desperate to record as many stories as possible about events in the Changbai Mountains more than 70 years ago, when the 1,300-kilometer-long range was the main theater of resistance to the Japanese occupation of China.
'I am almost 90, but I don't think of myself as elderly - I always just see myself as an old solider," Zhang Ruiling said.
A shift in naval focus from "offshore defense" to a combination of "offshore defense" and "open seas protection" was announced in a major strategic white paper issued by the State Council on Tuesday, and it has already been implemented.
China's civil aviation authority is to introduce measures to blacklist passengers who become unruly when traveling on planes, in a bid to strengthen air safety.
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