Nation sends record delegation to Paralympics
China is sending 96 athletes to next month's Paralympic Winter Games, its largest ever participation in the event. This marks China
's sixth appearance at the Winter Paralympics.
The Chinese delegation includes 68 male and 28 female athletes with an average age of 25.
The Chinese athletes will be competing in 73 events across all six sports, compared with two sports and six events at the Sochi 
2014 Winter Paralympics.
The Beijing Winter Paralympics will be held from March 4 to 13.
>Personality rights protected on internet
China's crackdown of online crimes related to personality rights continues, the Supreme People's Procuratorate said Monday.
Insult, slander and infringement of citizens' personal information on the internet all violate personality rights, said Miao Shengming, 
an official with the SPP.
He added the top procuratorate has supervised the handling of more than 30 criminal cases related to such crimes.
Since 2019, prosecuting agencies have pressed charges against 213 people for insult or defamation, 21,923 for infringement of 
personal information and 15 for crimes that besmirch the reputation or honor of heroic martyrs, Miao said
>Mega-projects approved for data clusters
China has approved projects to build eight national computing hubs and approved plans on 10 national-data center clusters, 
indicating the completion of the overall layout for the national integrated big-data center system.
The projects were approved by the National Development and Reform Commission and three other central departments, indicating
 a strategy is in full swing to channel more computing resources from the eastern areas to the less developed western regions.
The eight national computing hubs will be built in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region, the Yangtze River Delta, the Guangdong-Hong 
Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, North China's Inner Mongolia autonomous region, 
Southwest China's Guizhou province, Northwest China's Gansu province and the Ningxia Hui autonomous region.
>Putin recognizes two 'independent republics' in east Ukraine
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed two decrees recognizing "he “Lugansk People's Republic" and "Donetsk 
People's Republic" as independent and sovereign states. Putin also inked the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual 
Assistance between Russia and the LPR and the DPR respectively with the heads of the two "republics".
US President Joe Biden on Monday night signed an executive order that prohibits new investment, trade and financing by US 
persons to, from, or in the two Ukrainian regions Russia has recognized as independent states.

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