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Old grudge possible motive in triple murder

A court in Shaanxi province said on Thursday that it will review a ruling made in the 1990s that might have been at the root of a triple homicide during this year's Spring Festival.

Express industry is speeding up green reforms

Packages for express delivery goods in China are expected to be thinner and more recyclable to reduce environmental stress, according to a new national standard.

Mountain rail still chugging along quarter century on, ticket price nearly unchanged

With the world's largest and fastest-expanding high-speed railway network, China has updated its railway timetable frequently over the past few years. But the timetable to a passenger train service connecting Yuci and Xiangyuan, two county-level regions 195 kilometers apart in the Tai-hang Mountains in North China's Shanxi province, has remained unchanged since its maiden run a quarter century ago.

Arson ruled out as cause of temple fire

LHASA - A preliminary investigation has ruled out foul play in the fire that broke out in Jokhang Temple in Lhasa, capital of the Tibet autonomous region.

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Team in talks over statue vandalism

A Chinese team has been set up to negotiate with a Pennsylvania museum where the thumb of an ancient Terracotta Warrior statue was broken off and stolen while on exhibit in the US, said an official with the cultural relics authority in Shaanxi province.

Solar tree truly green in Xiongan

A solar photovoltaic system has been installed on top of an artificial tree in the Xiongan New Area in Hebei province.

Tourists to help find missing children

A Spring Festival temple fair in Kaifeng, Henan province, has attracted major media attention after it printed information about missing children along with admission tickets and encouraged tourists to help share them through social media.

Isolated village bids farewell to Lunar New Year in celebration

TAIYUAN - Bai Wuzi has called a cave his home for 35 years. It is where, in borrowed clothes, he married his blind wife and where their son and daughter were conceived and born. Xiazhai is a remote village between two mountains in Kelan county, Shanxi province.

Historic battlefield disrespect slammed

Two men posing for pictures dressed in imperial Japanese military uniforms in front of a Nanjing memorial site have been severely criticized online.

Counterfeiters of popular TCM remedy detained

Shanghai's food and drug watchdog and the municipal police recently cracked a major case of producing and selling counterfeit ejiao, a gelatin made of donkey hides, while falsely using a famous brand name.