Nobel laureate C.N. Yang and Turing Award winner Yao Qizhi have become Chinese citizens and officially joined the Chinese Academy of Sciences as academicians - the highest academic title in China, the academy's faculty office said on Tuesday.
At the entrance of an old, dilapidated residential community in downtown Shanghai, two women were going about their daily business. One of them was washing her hair in a sink, while the other used another sink to rinse out a spittoon.
It all started with a magician's performance at the court of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in the late 1760s.
Item from Feb 22, 1984, in China Daily: Workers supervise automatic equipment imported from Japan at the Beijing No 2 Pastry Factory.
Quality should take precedence over quantity when it comes to proposals from members of China's top political advisory body, officials said on Tuesday.
Christie's auction house will sell a major collection of Chinese furniture during its Asian Art Week in March, with premium pieces expected to fetch at least $1 million each.
Beijing said its recent suspension of coal imports from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea shows its responsible attitude toward the Korean nuclear issue and its sincerity in implementing United Nations Security Council resolutions.
Yang Dongliang, former head of China's work safety watchdog and a longtime Tianjin official, was sentenced to 15 years in prison after his conviction on bribery and embezzlement charges by a Beijing court on Tuesday.
China extended its support to Mongolia on Monday for overcoming economic difficulties, as Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced a number of measures to help the debt-ridden neighbor.
An 8-year-old girl is continuing to eat more in the hope of gaining enough weight to meet a requirement for transplanting bone marrow to her ailing mother.
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