The Beijing-Zhuhai Expressway, a major north-south trunk road blocked for many days by snow, was fully reopened Monday morning, but travelers were warned of traffic jams, the Ministry of Communications said Monday.

The nation's environmental watchdog will work with the financial sector to bring in an international benchmark on green credit.

China said in Beijing Thursday it strongly opposes the practice of using the Olympic Games to hype political issues such as Darfur, saying it is in fact destroying and disturbing the preparation works of Olympic Games.

Beijing will impose fines on celebrities who violate the one-child rule that will be much higher than for common citizens, a senior family planning official said on Sunday.

The nation's top work safety agency will this year "actively promote" the use of tracking and locating systems for miners working underground in response to rising concerns about safety, an official said.

Sinopec Corp, Asia's largest refiner, processed 6.3 percent more crude oil last year, after the government called for local plants to boost production.

Beijing's subway system is expected to become the world's largest by 2015, with investment set to touch USD 10.8 billion by 2010.

Although there is now a wide consensus in China that spitting is "uncivilised" behaviour, as pre-Olympics manners campaigns term it, spitting remains a trademark sight and sound across the country.

The Chinese flag carrier Air China will launch a new service from Athens to Beijing, starting from November 28th, 2007. The new route will connect the capitals of the two countries: Greece and China.

Beijing is to put 50,000 bicycles up for hire at tourist and sports venues next year as part of a drive to make the Chinese capital "greener" for the Olympics Games.

One more Nike company's store was opened in China's capital Beijing on Friday. The company increases its presence in the country as the Chinese economy grows and the next year's Olympics approaches.

North Korea reaffirmed its commitment to nuclear disarmament at six-nation talks on its nuclear program, which resumed in Beijing Wednesday, a Russian diplomat said.