Two more rescued from collapsed building in E China
Two more people have been rescued from the rubble of a residential building that collapsed in Fenghua City in east China's Zhejiang Province.
Five others had been pulled from the debris as of noon on Friday. Among them, a 68-year-old man died after emergency treatment.
The local government provided relocation allowances for affected families, and arranged accommodation for people with particular difficulty in local hotels.
The five-storey building with 15 apartments in Jujing Community collapsed Friday morning.
Rescuers are still doing cleanup work to prevent a secondary collapse, and an investigation team has been set up to look into the cause of the collapse.
Japan approves new textbooks claiming China's Diaoyu Islands
Japanese government has approved new elementary school textbooks claiming the disputed Diaoyu Islands as part of Japan's territory, arousing strong denunciation from China immediately.
The revised textbooks, which will be used from the next academic year starting April 2015 for fifth and sixth grade students, won approval from Japan's Education Ministry.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei urged Japan to stop provocations and teach correct historical views to young people.
He told a press briefing that Japan should tell its next generation true facts about the Diaoyu Islands that they are China's and they were illegally stolen,"
Hong Lei added that China was extremely concerned about a Japanese Foreign Ministry policy paper, which also claimed the islands as Japan's.
He urged the Japanese side to honestly face up to and reflect on its history of militarist aggression and stop infringing upon China's territorial sovereignty.
Sub-surface search for MH370 black box underway as more aircraft mobilized
An underwater search is now underway for the flight data recorder of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.
A Chinese ship is joining an Australian submarine in the first sub-surface search for the flight's so-called black box.
The search itself is taking place in an area about 17-hundred kilometers northwest of Perth, Australia.
It comes just under a month after the flight disappeared on March 8th with 239-passangers and crew onboard.
Black-box batteries generally run out of power after around a month.
Philippine military tags Abu Sayyaf in Sabah kidnapping
The Philippine government is now pointing the finger at the Abu Sayyaf militant group as being responsible for the kidnapping of a Chinese national this week in Malaysia.
Philippine authorities say a group of 7-men led by a known member of Abu Sayyaf kidnapped two women at gunpoint Wednesday evening from a popular tourist resort, then eluded Malaysian authorities and made their way into the Philippine Sea.
It's believed the kidnappers and their hostages are now in the southern Philippines.
Phlippine authorities have not disclosed how they've come-by this information, or whether any ransom demands have been issued.
29-year old Gao Huayun from Shanghai was on a scuba-diving trip with a friend when she was taken.
Xi calls for persistent afforestation efforts
Chinese President Xi Jinping attended a tree planting activity on Friday and called for multi-generation efforts from people of all ethnic groups to protect forest resources.
While praising China's achievements in afforestation over the past 60-plus years, Xi Jinping noted that forests in the country were far from people's environmental expectations and lacking in both quality and quantity.
He called on leading officials at various levels to set an example by leading scientific tree-planting activities, expanding forest coverage and boosting ecological functions.
China concerned over dead and abandoned infants
China's health watchdog has released a regulation on the safety of newborns, which orders placing new-borns without guardians under proper care.
The rules on the safety management of newborns, released by the National Health and Family Planning Commission, also orders medical institutions to consult with the mothers or other guardians to confirm the deaths of foetus and infants, and should not treat the bodies as medical waste.
In the case of stillborns or dead infants with infectious diseases, institutions should obtain the guardians' consent before disposing of the bodies in line with laws and regulations.
China regulator to run stress tests on banks: paper
New reports are suggesting China's banking regulator is going to conduct regional and national stress tests on this country's banking system.
This, after a spike in bad loans through last year.
Chinese banks' non-performing loan ratios have risen to their highest level in two years through the final quarter of last year, averaging around 1-percent.
The CBRC is also reportedly urging banks to curb lending to local government financial vehicles and industries facing overcapacity, including property and steel firms.
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