The State Council Information Office on Thursday launched an app and an online briefing hall to provide the latest, most authoritative information about China and to offer better services for reporters from China and abroad.
China said Thursday its deployment of necessary defensive facilities on some islands in the South China Sea is legitimate and normal.
China installing necessary military facilities on the Nansha Islands is fair and legal, the Defense Ministry said on Thursday.
Yang Weize, former Party chief of Nanjing, capital of Jiangsu province, was sentenced to 12 years and six months behind bars for taking bribes worth 16.4 million yuan ($2.4 million).
Beijing and Paris will strengthen joint investigations of corrupt officials who have fled China, and also improve systems for the return of ill-gotten assets illegally transferred to France, a senior anti-graft official from the Ministry of Justice said.
The finance and civil affairs ministries Wednesday jointly allocated 5.705 billion yuan (about 826.3 million U.S. dollars) to provide living support for residents in disaster-hit regions.
Three government officials are under investigation for corruption, the Supreme People's Procuratorate announced Wednesday.
Economic growth in regions inhabited by ethnic groups in China has been faster than the rest of the country in the past few years, but poverty alleviation remains a long-term challenge, according to a report released on Tuesday.
Yunnan provincial legislature, in Southwest China, appointed Ruan Chengfa as acting governor on Tuesday, Xinhua News Agency reported.
Traffic lights stopped flashing, vehicles stopped running and people stood still on streets, bowing their heads, on Tuesday morning to remember the 300,000 victims of the Nanjing Massacre, as air raid sirens sounded across the country's former capital.
Si Xinliang, a former senior political advisor in East China's Zhejiang Province, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for accepting bribes amounting to nearly 20 million yuan (around $2.9 million) by a court in Jiangxi province on Tuesday.
Ruan Chengfa was appointed acting governor of Southwest China's Yunnan province Tuesday.
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