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China to protect private property: Members of China's National People's Congress have introduced a proposed amendment to the constitution, which will legally protect private property rights for the first time since 1949.

In China—Profit at your own peril: On the last Tuesday in May, a local Communist Party official invited Sun Dawu to lunch. But when Sun, a prominent businessman, reached the restaurant, he found the invitation had been a ruse. Entering the lobby, he was greeted by a small army of plainclothes police officers.

Influence of Mao's "little red books" lingers on: Though no adorer of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong like her father and grandfather, Chen Di, 20, has still found occasion to turn to Mao's famous "little red book". A computer science student at the prestigious University of Wales in Britain, Chen said that Mao's indoctrination to "study hard and make progress every day" was worth following.

Chinese courts buy mobile execution units: China's courts are buying mobile execution units to speed up their proceedings. Supreme Court has urged courts nationwide to equip themselves with special execution vans that can put convicted criminals to death immediately after sentencing.