Beijing has issued a guideline for restaurant toilets, to improve sanitary conditions of the city's 5,000 restaurants this year, Beijing Youth Daily reported Friday.

DALI, CHINA - CHINA PLANNED to utilise the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) as a driving force to build a community in the Mekong basin, while making clear that the LMC would not replace other cooperative schemes in the region, a senior Chinese official said yesterday.