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Father of a sixth grader in east China's Zhejiang Province outsourced his daughter's homework to nine of his employees, causing one of them to complain to the local newspaper. This unhappy worker, who is surnamed Chen said it took three days to finis
Naw Kham, who was convicted of murdering 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River in 2011, was executed earlier this afternoon. The Myanmar drug lord and three of his accomplices, identified as Hsang Kham, Yi Lai,and Zha Xika, were given the lethal inj
China's central government set the goal of increasing the country's educational expenditure to 4 percent of the GDP 20 years ago. This goal was finally reached in 2012, according to Finance Minister Xie Xuren at last year's national fiscal work meeti
Under China's current pricing system - which was introduced back in 2009, domestic fuel prices are only adjusted when prices of overseas crude oil change by more than 4 percent over 22 working days. We will raise or cut fuel prices more swiftly and m
With more and more Chinese people now starting to shun the tradition of traveling home for the Spring Festival and traveling overseas instead, Chinese tourism operators are starting to tailor their packages accordingly. CRI's Su Yi has more. Sydney's
The Empire State Building in New York is lighting up the sky with red and yellow, the colours of China, to mark the Chinese Lunar New Year. The lights will be shining from the top of the building for three nights, starting Friday. The Consul General
The National Development and Reform Commission, China's top economic planner has decided to lower bank card charges for businesses nationwide. The adjustment is expected to reaches to a wide range of sectors, such as catering, hotels, retailing, whol
The deployment of Patriot missile systems in Turkey has started to flesh out. Ships carrying parts from Germany and Netherland docked Tuesday at Turkey's southeastern port of Iskenderun. NATO allies are also sending hundreds of soldiers to operate th
Japan's central bank is pledging more aggressive action to boost the economy, including a 2 percent inflation target and easing monetary conditions. The Bank of Japan - or BOJ says it would conduct open-ended asset purchases to help achieve the goal
The first high-end server independently developed by a Chinese company has made its debut in Beijing. The Tiansuo K1 System, a fault-tolerant server developed by the Shangdong-based Inspur Group, was put on the market after four years of research and
According to the guidelines which call for local governments to make policies to facilitate mergers and restructuring, the concentration ratio is required to reach 90 percent by 2015 in the top ten auto enterprises and 60 percent in the top ten steel
Groups representing both Chinese and Japanese interests have been meeting in more frequency over the past few weeks in an attempt to try to ease tensions between the two countries. The latest meeting has been between Tang Jiaxuan, head of the China-J
The National Development and Reform Commission, the nation's top economic planner, estimates the population will make some 3.4 billion trips during Spring Festival using cars, buses, trains, airplanes and ships. Comparing to other transportation, som
The capital will raise its automobile-emission standards on Friday, making them the strictest in the nation. The Beijing Environmental Protection Bureau said the move is expected to reduce auto pollution by 40 percent to better improve the hazardous
Syria's Foreign Ministry has filed an official complaint about the Israeli attack that targeted a Syrian military research center in the capital Damascus a day earlier. The ministry also summoned the leader of the UN Disengagement Observer Force, Maj
United Nations peacekeepers in a demilitarized zone between Syria and Israel are unable to verify a Syrian complaint that Israeli planes had flown over the Golan Heights to carry out an air strike. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman Eduar
Two senior cabinet ministers have resigned just four days after Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard announcing a national election date. The country's first female Attorney-General Nicola Roxon will step down along with Chris Evans, who as Senate
Municipal authorities here in Beijing are preparing to start a review of the air pollution control rules later this year. A draft of the new rules, thought to be the strictest ever, is being put out for public consumption until this Friday. The rules
North Korea has confirmed the success of its third underground nuclear test in the country's northeast, which has caused an earthquake with a magnitude of 4.9. The scientific field for national defense of DPRK succeeded in the third underground nucle
The South Korean defence ministry says it has deployed cruise missiles to counter a possible attack by North Korea after Pyongyang carried out its third underground nuclear test on Tuesday. Ministry spokesman Kim Min-seok made the revelations at a re