Chinese legal experts met on Wednesday to discuss how to perfect the country's legal aid system, as the government plans legislation on the matter.
China is highly concerned with a verdict by Myanmar that has sentenced Chinese nationals to more than 10 years in prison for illegal logging, said a Foreign Ministry spokesperson.
Two former senior officials have been tried for corruption in central China, local authorities said on Wednesday.
The Communist Party of China (CPC)'s top anti-graft body said Wednesday some 19,000 officials were reprimanded for violating austerity rules in the first half of 2015, bringing the total number of those punished since late 2012 to more than 120,000.
China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) said Wednesday that prosecutors in eastern China's Jiangsu Province are investigating a former vice mayor of Taizhou City on graft charges.
President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama highlighted their nations' cooperation in resolving the Iran nuclear issue during a telephone conversation on Tuesday.
President Xi Jinping called for more economic cooperation between China and New Zealand as he met with Jerry Mateparae, the country's governor-general, on Tuesday in Beijing.
The top leadership's announcement of the decision to prosecute Ling Jihua, a former State-level official, on corruption charges has attracted widespread attention in the Chinese media, traditional as well as online.
The Japanese Cabinet has triggered an angry response from its Asian neighbors after it approved an annual defense white paper, a document that in belligerent terms accuses China of raising regional tensions.
The Chinese navy announced 10 days of military training in the waters near eastern Hainan Island in the South China Sea starting on Wednesday, amid heightened tensions in the region.
China is drafting plans to protect the maritime resources on and around Nansha Islands and improve public services in the South China Sea, the State Oceanic Administration said.
The States Council, China's cabinet, has established a joint working group to severing the traditionally close relationship between the government and trade associations.
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