China's "State Administration of Cultural Heritage" has stopped the sale of several looted Chinese cultural relics at the Yokohama International Autumn Auction in Japan.

The Cultural Heritage group  sent a letter to the Yokohama-based Japanese auction house after learning about the auction, and demanded the company to immediately end the sale. The looted cultural relics include several Dunhuang frescoes from a Tang Dynasty Emperor.

The "State Administration of Cultural Heritage" also recently published a new regulation entitled "Measures for Administration of Cultural Relics Auction," which forbids stolen Chinese cultural relics from being sold at auction, and gives China the right of first-refusal if those relics are offered for sale.

China's "State Administration of Cultural Heritage" has stopped the sale of several looted Chinese cultural relics at the Yokohama International Autumn Auction in Japan.