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Patients will benefit from reduced medical bills after the government banned hospitals from making profits on check-ups using CT scanners, X-ray ray machines and other equipment.
Tian Fengshan, former minister of land and resources, was sentenced to life imprisonment yesterday for accepting bribes worth 4.36 million yuan (US$538,000).
In Sri Lanka, President Mahinda Rajapakse will hold a memorial at a site near Galle where more than 1,000 passengers are thought to have died when the waves engulfed their train. Later, women survivors will form a candle-light chain along the coast.
Many countries in the region suffered during Japan's wartime occupation and feel that Japan has not done enough to atone for its past.
Rock star Elton John is tying the knot with longtime partner David Furnish Wednesday, in a civil union ceremony seen as a watershed in the struggle for gay rights - and as the party of the season by celebrity-spotters.
Hong Kong opposition legislators Wednesday voted down the government's constitutional reform package on the electoral methods for the 2007 chief executive and the 2008 Legislative Council (LegCo) elections.
The popular Badaling section of China's Great Wall, which has suffered more at the hands of modern visitors than the barbarian invaders it was meant to keep out, may soon get a face lift .
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) on Monday vowed to boost its defence capability --including a nuclear deterrent -- to cope with Washington's criticism of its human rights record.
"The series' addictive blend of black comedy and gripping drama is sure to thrill audiences on the Chinese mainland the same way it does in 202 other areas around the world," said Laurie Younger, president of Buena Vista Worldwide Television, the show's distributor.
The US National Security Agency(NSA) first began to conduct warrantless eavesdropping on telephone calls and e-mail messages between the United States and Afghanistan in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, The New York Times reported Sunday.
Voting also appeared heavy among Iraqis in mainly Shiite Iran, a close ally of the Shiite parties that control the current government in Baghdad. Hundreds lined up at a polling station in southern Tehran to cast ballots.
In the wake of a series of recent fatal colliery accidents, China's work safety authorities vowed yesterday to adopt a package of "iron-handed" measures to improve the problematic workplace safety situation.
