A 32 year-old Russian man died in Beijing on November 2, pushing up the the number of recent deaths on the mainland from the A/H1N1 strain of influenza to eight.
The Ministry of Culture and the General Administration of Press and Publication have clashed over who has the authority to allow online role playing game, World of Warcraft to operate in China.
Last week's announcement that China's GDP grew by 8.9% in the third quarter, bolstered confidence that the Chinese economy has consolidated its recovery and is emerging from the economic downturn.
MOF statistics revealed that the profits of China's SOEs dropped 17.6% in the first 9 months of the year, when compared with the same period last year.
New yuan-denominated lending reached 516.7 billion yuan in September, pushing total new lending in the first nine months of the year up to 8.67 trillion yuan.
Members of the central committee of China's ruling Communist party (CPC) recently agreed to crack down on corruption within the Party and to strengthen intraparty democracy.
