A man acquitted after spending eight years in prison in east China's Fujian Province has received 1.14 million yuan (186,000 U.S. dollars) of compensation from the state.
Lu Wucheng, a senior legislator of northwest China's Gansu Province, was removed from official post and stripped of status as a national law-maker on Sunday.
China's top legislature, along with other authorities, convened on Thursday to study President Xi Jinping's latest anti-corruption instructions.
The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday denounced the upcoming parliamentary elections in the self- proclaimed "people's republics" in eastern regions, calling them " illegitimate."
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) convened the second session of the 13th Supreme People's Assembly on Thursday with major personnel changes.
BEIJING, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- Four people suspected of a terrorist attack at a railway station in Kunming early this year went on trial on Friday in southwest China's Yunnan Province.
The National People's Congress (NPC), China's parliamentary body, concluded its annual session Thursday morning.
The Shandong Higher People's Court on Friday rejected Bo Xilai's appeal and upheld the original sentence of life imprisonment for bribery, embezzlement and abuse of power.
Li Keqiang was endorsed as Chinese premier Friday morning at the ongoing session of the 12th National People's Congress (NPC), the country's top legislature
Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, said on Thursday that the DPRK military was ready to fight an all-out war, the official KCNA news agency reported.
A new generation of leaders for China's state organs and top political advisory body will come into power during the "Two Sessions", a term commonly used by the Chinese media referring the NPC and CPPCC.
Deputies to the 12th National People's Congress on Monday elected the Congress presidium and set the agenda for the legislative session, to open on Tuesday. It's the first time for the new NPC deputies, elected earlier this year, to gather in Beijing for the annual session of the national legislature.
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