Riots left 27 people dead early Wednesday in a remote town in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, local authorities said.
The riots happened at around 6 a.m. in Lukqun township of Shanshan County in Turpan Prefecture.
The White House on Tuesday downplayed reports that senior officials within the administration were using secret government email accounts to avoid public records requests.
Speaking during an ecological construction study session with members of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, President Xi Jinping called for establishing a lifelong responsibility mechanism targeting those who conduct irresponsible decision-making that leads to severe environmental consequences.
The discipline watchdog of the Communist Party of China (CPC) has urged staff with disciplinary and supervisory organs to throw away "membership cards received in various names."
Disciplinary authorities in southwest China's Chongqing municipality on Thursday vowed to thoroughly investigate officials who are believed to have been involved in a recent sex video scandal.
Fan, deputy secretary-general of the political consultative conference of the city of Guangzhou in south China's Guangdong province, said officials' assets should be declared and disclosed.
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, has moved his anti-corruption campaign forward, including new constraints, on the powers of officials.
Two officials in southern Chinese province of Guangdong were recently exposed online due to holding multi-million dollar property portfolios that suggests corruption. Now, disciplinary authorities have begun investigating the accusations.
More than a hundred people have infected norovirus at a hospital in Japan's Yokohama, municipal officials said Monday.
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