In Brief

Dates set for this year's NPC and CPPCC sessions

The National People's Congress, the mainland's annual parliamentary session, will open in Beijing on March 5, Xinhua reported yesterday. The congress will review the implementation of the nation's economic and social development plan over the past year and approve a draft plan for the year ahead. The Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the top advisory body, will open on March 3. Staff Reporter

Asian Games tickets on sale

Tickets for the Asian Games will be available online from February 28. The Games' organising committee said in a press conference that prices for 87 per cent of the tickets will fall between 10 yuan (HK$11.30) to 400 yuan. It was reported that the most expensive tickets - for the opening ceremony - would cost about 6,800 yuan. Mimi Lau

Developer faces bribe probe

Li Yahe , board chairman of Shenzhen developer Kingglory Industrial Group, was stripped of his post at Guangdong's committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference for suspected bribery, the National Business Daily reported. Li, 45, had links to former Shenzhen mayor Xu Zongheng, who was sacked for 'serious disciplinary violations' last year. He Huifeng