Bloomberg News Service ran the following headline today: "At Least Half of Apartments in Shanghai, Beijing Are Vacant, Daily Reports." Bloomberg also noted that "China Daily" had cited an online investigation by website joozone.com., in which volunteers c...

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CHANGSHA - Authorities in the capital of Central China's Hunan province announced on Tuesday they will make public the performance evaluation results of all city officials, a leap forward toward achieving transparency in government. "We're planning to pub...

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BEIJING - Driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) will be listed as an independent charge in the eighth amendment of the criminal law of the People's Republic of China, Chongqing Morning Post reported on Tuesday. Reckless driving is a violation of pu...

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BEIJING - The government has vowed to "carefully listen" to the voices of foreign businesses based here, while at the same time, experts said there have been "improvements" on relevant policies, and international firms should focus on the big picture rath...

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This summer has been brutal. More than 1,200 people have lost their lives in China as a result of torrential rain and landslides; millions more have lost their homes and seen their farms inundated - and this on top of the worst drought in the south-west o...

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As more post-1980s people are setting up families, most young couples are beginning to face the difficulty of tending to their aged parents, according to a survey conducted by the Social Investigation Center of China Youth Daily. Among the 1,612 responden...

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SHENZHEN - A tobacco usage survey of Chinese people released on Tuesday shows a big increase in the rate of exposure to secondhand smoke among Chinese people. The rate jumped from 53 percent in 2002 to about 73 percent in 2010. The survey in China done by...

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BEIJING - China's e-commerce industry is expected to see rapid growth in the next few years, with the average annual growth rate surpassing 35 percent, a top government official said on Tuesday. Qian Xiaoqian, deputy director of the State Council Informat...

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SHANGHAI - China's status as the world's second largest economy will help facilitate Sino-India trade ties, a senior Indian diplomat said on Wednesday. "We will take the task of building a stronger economic relationship with China even more seriously," S....

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According to Daily Maily of August 16, based in the centre of Stuttgart's Meilenwerka, the so-called V8 Hotel bosts beds and rooms made from car lovers' favourite vehicles. Guests can sleep in everything from a Morris Minor to a Mercedes. The four-star ho...

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