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Former senior judge stands trial in China's gang crime crackdown
A former deputy court chief in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality stood trial Friday in neighboring Guizhou Province for bribery and gang-related charges, authorities said.
Zhang Tao, former deputy chief of Chongqing's Higher People's Court, faced charges of taking bribes and protecting mafia-style gangs, said officials with the procuratorate of Zunyi City, Guizhou.
The trial was held at the Intermediate People's Court of Zunyi City, which was designated by the Supreme People's Court ...
Percival, pioneer of NZ-China trade, dies in Auckland
Victor Percival, a New Zealander officially listed as one of China's 500 special friends of the 20th century, has died in Auckland at the age of 81.
In April 1997, the Chinese government published the Friends of China Directory. It contained the names of the 500 people the People's Republic of China considered to be its best friends in the 20th century. Mr. Percival was the only living New Zealander on the list.
Rewi Alley, who founded the Gung Ho movement in China, and Kathleen Hall, a nu ...
Moral standards for officials' personal life necessary: newspaper
New standards adopted by a county in China for performance assessment based on officials' moral conduct outside of work was a step forward, according to a commentary in the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
In the article signed by Zhong Zuwen in Friday's People's Daily, the author said the new standards emphasize "both morality and professional competence with morality taking priority" in official selection and promotion.
A county in east China's Jiangsu Province h ...
China's defense expenditure at appropriate level: spokesman
China's defense expenditure has always been maintained at a reasonable and appropriate level, a Defense Ministry spokesman said here Friday.
China's annual defense expenditure has been around 1.4 percent of its GDP in recent years while the share of some major world powers is between 2 and 4 percent, Geng Yansheng, the ministry's new spokesman, said at a press conference two days ahead of the 83rd anniversary of the founding of the People's Liberation Army, on Aug. 1.
"We have always coord ...
Mainland will agree to cross-Strait military security talks: defense spokesman
The Chinese mainland will agree to discuss military security and mutual trust across the Taiwan Strait "at a proper time" so as to maintain stability in the region, a defense spokesman said Friday.
"The mainland and Taiwan can make contact and exchanges on military issues at a proper time," Defense Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said at a press conference.
Discussions would focus on "the establishment of military security and mutual trust mechanisms," he said.
Preparations "should be ...
Civilians called in as China's river salvage faces growing difficulties
Civilians were mobilized Friday to join exhausted soldiers and emergency workers struggling against mounting difficulties to retrieve thousands of chemical-filled barrels that were swept into a major northeast China river by flood waters two days ago.
Salvage workers fear some of the barrels, many filled with 170 kilograms of flammable liquid, may have sunk to the bottom of the Songhua River, raising serious risks of lingering water contamination.
Chemical barrels were also spotted lying u ...
Six miners dead after colliery cave-in in east China
Six people were dead Friday after a cave-in in a coal mine in east China's Jiangsu Province, said local authorities.
The accident happened around 3:15 a.m. when 18 miners were working underground in the Zhangshuanglou Coal Mine, owned by Xuzhou Mining Group,in Fengpei County of Xuzhong City, said a spokesman with the publicity department of Xuzhou city committee of the Communist Party of China.
Twelve miners were lifted from the shaft safely, while six others died at the scene or at hospi ...
Construction of nuclear power plant kicks off in south China
Construction on the first phase of a nuclear power plant started in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Friday.
The project in Guangpo Township, Fangchengang City, will have six one-million-kilowatt generators once complete.
It will be the first such facility in an ethnic minority area.
The first phase of the project involves investment of 26 billion yuan (3.87 billion U.S. dollars) and construction of two CPR1000 pressurized water reactors, according to Shu Guogang, general manager of the ...
China to send troops to Kazakhstan for anti-terrorism drill: spokesman
More than 1,000 army and air force officers and soldiers from China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) will take part in an anti-terror exercise in Kazakhstan this autumn, a Chinese Defense Ministry spokesman said Friday.
The "Peace Mission 2010" exercise would be the seventh of its kind held under the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), Geng Yansheng told a press conference two days ahead of the 83rd founding anniversary of the PLA, on Aug. 1.
It would also be the larg ...
China begins longest energy transmission project in world
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The world's longest and the most difficult electricity transmission and conversion project, located on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as the "Roof of the World," began construction on July 29.
Li Keqiang, vice premier of the S ...
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