The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE) have redrafted their charters to cut administrative interference in their operations.
Revamped rules on recruitment of Communist Party of China (CPC) members will apply more stringent standards to management of Party members, the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee vowed on Wednesday.
Police in two northern Chinese regions Tuesday said they have arrested some 1,500 cult members over the past two years.
More than three dozen scared rural body members including women in Indian-controlled Kashmir tendered resignations following the killing of their two colleagues.
Nine Chinese crew members on board a Panama-registered cargo went missing after the ship collided with a South Korean cargo and capsized in waters near Miura port in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan early Tuesday morning, said the Chinese Embassy.
The UN General Assembly on Thursday elected Chad, Chile, Lithuania, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia to a two-year term in the UN Security Council, the organization's most powerful body.
Chinese President Xi Jinping warned on Monday against a world trade regime fragmented by various free trade arrangements, calling for determination to conclude the long-stalled Doha Round of global trade talks.
Rio de Janeiro officials on Sunday denied reports of major delays to the city's 2016 Olympic preparations.
Bodies believed to be those of the six missing Russian crew members were found inside a Cambodia- registered freighter that caught fire early Thursday in a port in Japan's northern prefecture of Hokkaido, according to local media.
China's lawmakers attending the ongoing national legislative session are expecting three busy days from Thursday to elect and appoint state leaders.
The first session of China's top political advisory body opened in Beijing on Sunday afternoon.
The skipper and all other crew members of a Chinese fishing boat Japanese coast guard detained Saturday near the Okinawa Prefecture were released on late Sunday, said the Chinese Consulate General in Fukuoka.
Chinese celebrities are now exerting their influence in more ways, including Hong Kong comedy king, Stephen Chow...He has just been elected to the political consultative body of China's southern province of Guangdong, with two other Hong Kong celebrities.
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