One of the richest men in China's entertainment hub faces 10-year prison and even death for organizing sex trade and destroying evidence.
China has rebuked US criticism blaming China for tensions in the South China Sea, and instead criticized the United States for stoking the fire.
Director-General of the Department of Boundary and Ocean Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China received a written interview on China's construction activities on some garrisoned islands and reefs of the Nansha Islands.
The world's second largest economy is transitioning to a new normal, aimed at safer and higher-quality growth, and its currency is no longer undervalued, a senior official with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday.
China will encourage entrepreneurship and innovation in an effort to create more jobs and stabilize employment, said Xin Changxing, vice minister of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, during an online interview on Tuesday.
China issued its first white paper on military strategy on Tuesday, stressing "active defense" and pledging closer international security cooperation.
Defense Ministry spokesperson Yang Yujun said Tuesday that the country has not built any military bases overseas.
China's Ministry of Transport (MOT) on Tuesday hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for the construction of two lighthouses on Huayang Reef and Chigua Reef of China's Nansha Islands.
The Information Office of the State Council on Tuesday published a white paper on China's military strategy.
Beijing issued its first white paper on military strategy, ushering in greater military transparency by giving details of the direction of its military buildup to other nations.
The strategic requirement of building air-space capabilities and conducting offensive and defensive operations, as mentioned in the paper, is driven by the development of technologies that integrate air and space, as well as the challenges we're facing.
Observers said the shift, which has already started, targets the nation's major security challenges coming from the sea and aims to better protect the world's second largest economy's expanding overseas interests.