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Bernardo Bertolucci, whose epic "The Last Emperor" won nine Oscars and who influenced generations of filmmakers with other groundbreaking works such as "The Conformist" and "Last Tango in Paris," in which he explored politics and sexuality through personal storytelling and audacious camera work, has died. He was 77, reported Variety.com

 The eldest of three giant pandas at San Diego Zoo, Gao Gao left on Tuesday morning to return to China, where he was born.

The departure concludes a long-term loan from China to the zoo. By all accounts, it was a highly successful one. Along with matriarch Bai Yun, he produced five cubs, the youngest of which, Xiao Liwu, remains behind with his mother.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), July 27 (SeeNews) - Chinese energy company Sunpower Group said on Friday that its unit Shandong Yangguang Engineering Design Institute will design a biomass-fired power plant in Bulgaria, starting in August.

NYT, BEIJING—A fire that tore through a karaoke bar in southern China in the early hours of Tuesday killed 18 people, the police said, adding that arson was probably the cause.

A brief initial police account of the blaze in Qingyuan, a city in Guangdong province, said firefighters received an emergency call about 30 minutes past midnight.

Starting in May, Chinese citizens who rank low on the country's burgeoning "social credit" system will be in danger of being banned from buying plane or train tickets for up to a year, according to statements recently released by the country's National Development and Reform Commission.

 The Chinese government on Monday announced an economic growth target of 6.5%. That's several notches below the 6.9% rate at which the world's second largest economy expanded last year, according to official figures, CNNreported. 

Skype, Microsoft Corp's internet phone call and messaging service, has been unavailable for download from a number of app stores in China, including Apple Inc's, for almost a month, New York Times reported on Tuesday, quoted by Reuters. 

The United Nations has demanded that China should immediately release prominent human rights activists from detention and pay them compensation, according to an unreleased document obtained by the Guardian.

The Chinese government intends to fight global climate change and actively develop cooperation with other countries to solve this problem, reports TASS. 

This is what the President of the People's Republic of China, Xi Jinping said at the XIXth Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

Chinese company TJK Biological Tech Co. Ltd. has signed a partnership agreement with the Bulgarian "Srednogorska Rosa" EOOD at the beginning of the International Fair for Small and Medium Enterprises - CISMEF`2017 in Guangzhou, PR China. This was announced by the Executive Agency for Promotion of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises.