Taiwan needs regional integration

Taiwan's demonstrators occupied its legislature on March 18 to 24 to resist a new trade bill with the mainland. And yet, Taiwan needs regional economic integration to sustain its economy.

Revolutionary energy transition needed

With the world's largest population and the second-largest, and still-growing economy, China's energy development roadmap is a global concern. China accounts for almost half the world's annual coal consumption, so an energy development roadmap that reduces China's coal consumption is critical to keeping the average global temperature rise below two degrees Celsius, as enshrined in the Copenhagen Accord.

Letters Love autistic children

The number of autistic children is gradually increasing in China. However, there is not an accurate number due to the fact that the condition is often misdiagnosed.

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Wrong to pay Li Na wages

Potential of the Chinese Dream

Early in November 2012, Chinese leader Xi Jinping articulated a vision for the nation's future that he called the Chinese Dream. The Chinese Dream integrates national and personal aspirations, with the twin goals of reclaiming national pride and achieving personal well-being. It requires sustained economic growth, expanded equality and an infusion of cultural values to balance materialism.

Search must continue

IT IS HEART-WRENCHING FOR THE RELATIVES of the passengers and crew onboard the missing plane to accept the fact that they have lost their loved ones forever.

Boost for cultural industry

Too much influence from administrative power harms the nation's arts and cultural activities, Cai Wu, the minister of culture, was quoted in a new book as saying. These words are supported by the fact that China has hundreds of TV channels nationwide but they hardly offer influential programs and that it can generate 20,000 songs a year yet few are lasting.

Grandeur and centrality lift global renaissance

Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to France while the two countries commemorate the 50th anniversary of their diplomatic relations is an invitation to put the bilateral relationship into perspective.

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Think services, inclusion and green

Two defining features of today's new global economy are the rise of Asia and the power of interconnections.

US calls on Internet freedom for spying

'The lady doth protest too much, methinks." William Shakespeare said it first, back in 1602, in reference to the broken trust between Hamlet and his scheming mother Queen Gertrude who liked to think her crimes were undetectable, but it also applies to Lady Liberty in the latter-day United States of America.

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Teaching core values helps kids Michaelm