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Platforms asked to verify job postings

Experts called for job recruitment websites to strengthen their verification of information after a graduate student apparently received an offer from scammers posing as recruiters for a Beijing-based company.

Ease up on tutoring, ministry tells parents

Schools should reduce the workload of primary and middle school students during the summer vacation, and parents should not sign up children for too many tutorial classes, the Ministry of Education said on Wednesday.

Scam linked to notary offices

An investigative group has been set up to probe some notary offices in Beijing for suspected misconduct that resulted in huge losses for seniors.

Xi'an scrutinizes rabies vaccines

Authorities in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, will overhaul the rabies vaccine industry after a local woman died 28 days after being bitten by a rabid dog.

Human-machine future seen in blink of an eye

A team of Chinese scientists recently invented a micromotion sensor that allows people to control devices and type text by blinking their eyes, according to a paper published in an international science journal.

Former inspector expelled from CPC

Zhang Huawei, a former disciplinary officer at the vice-minister level has been expelled from the Communist Party of China over graft issues and serious violations of the Party's code of conduct, the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection said on Wednesday.

Rising incomes fuel 'sense of gain'

Despite rising housing prices, Han Jianhua, an assistant director of a furniture company in Fuzhou, Fujian province, feels confident he can buy a home in the near future. "A bicycle was all I owned when I started working five years ago. Now I drive my own car to work. My next plan is to buy an apartment and settle in the city," he said.

Platform preserves a disappearing ethnic language

Heilongjiang province is launching a project to encourage more people to use the internet to learn the steadily dwindling languages of some ethnic groups.

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Message of shame identifies debtors to their phone callers

Novelty messages lose their fun when they announce your dirty secrets.

CubeSat released in orbit, proving feasibility

China's Tianzhou 1 cargo spacecraft successfully released a cube satellite while in orbit on Tuesday, and signals from the satellite - known as a CubeSat - were immediately received by ground technicians, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp.