Law graduate spurns courtroom for kitchen

Zhang Tianyi graduated with a master's degree in law from Peking University, but instead of spending his days in a courtroom he prefers to sell rice noodles, a specialty from his hometown.

Miss California says key to success is to 'keep trying'

In 2001, Elaine Chao became the first Chinese-American woman to join the cabinet of a US president. Eight years later, Barack Obama became the first African-American president of the United States. In 2011, Gary Locke became the first Chinese-American ambassador to China.

Time, money drawing more readers to digital devices

Wang Siyuan's longtime reading habit was shaken up when China gained access to the Internet 20 years ago.

Chinese cities' four modernizations

Among the most significant developments driving China's economic growth and rising living standards is the shift from a rural, agricultural society to a modern, urban one.

Building universities of applied sciences

Chinese universities have been churning out graduates by the millions each year, but an increasing number of graduates find it tough landing a job. Meanwhile, enterprises are complaining they have difficulty recruiting skilled workers that meet their requirements.

Fighting judicial corruption

REDUCED TIME IN PRISON AND PAROLE HAVE long been seen as the ways ex-officials escape the punishment they deserve for the crimes they have committed.

Better Internet governance

A series of non-obligatory international norms promoted at a recent Internet conference in Brazil will be helpful to the establishment of global Internet governance, but it remains urgent that some specific rules be worked out to ensure cyberspace is not used as a means for some countries to target others.

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Chinese tourists will come of age

The May Day holiday will see many Chinese mainland residents, bitten by the travel bug, spending time away from home. While most of them will travel within the mainland, a large number will head overseas. We can thus expect yet another slew of micro-blogging reports on Chinese tourists behaving badly outside the mainland.

Stop throwing your pets to the dogs

Dog lovers and dog haters are like cats and dogs; they will never cease to fight. No wonder the news of about 100 stray dogs being possibly buried alive near a garbage dump in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region has sparked a fierce war of words on the Internet.

Letters

Obama should be wary of Japan

From the Chinese press

Chinese 'dama' dance to bad tune