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Vietnam's claims do not hold water

In safeguarding its marine rights and interests, China attaches great importance to legitimacy. In dealing with the disputes in the South China Sea, China complies with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and international norms.

Cross-Straits relations boost

THE FOUR "NOT" PRINCIPLES GENERAL SECRETARY Xi Jinping of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China proposed when meeting Taiwan's People First Party Chairman James CY Soong on Wednesday, can be expected to stabilize the interrupted relations across the Taiwan Straits.

Swiss move helpful

At the European Finance Ministers' meeting on Tuesday, Switzerland, the world's largest offshore financial center, agreed to sign a global standard on the automatic exchange of information on foreigners' bank accounts, a move that has been widely interpreted as lifting the centuries-old veil of secrecy that has made Swiss bank accounts so attractive to those looking to "hide" their money.

Guard secrets against spy Net

A female suspect named Gao Yu was detained for leaking "state secrets" to foreign contacts, said Beijing police on Thursday. Gao, 70, a Beijing resident and a former journalist, was suspected of illegally obtaining a highly confidential document of the Chinese central government and sending it to an overseas website in June last year, which later became widely circulated on foreign websites.

Road rage versus unfair criticism

A 21-year-old Chinese, surnamed Duan, studying in the US was killed in a road accident in California recently. It was an otherwise ordinary accident, except that Duan was driving a Ferrari.

Hot words

Button theory of life 人生扣子论 (ren sheng kou zi lun)

Hybrid tiger's lesson for tiger mom

To be, or not to be a tiger mom, that is the question to be deliberated, especially with Mother's Day round the corner. Amy Chua, the author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, once argued that Chinese mothers were better than all other mothers. She cited statistics with which we're all familiar: Chinese-Americans tend to dominate their peers in school and in tests, Chinese-Americans enroll in and graduate from the best US colleges at alarmingly high rates, and Chinese-Americans have the highest average income among all ethnic groups in the United States.

Cooperation for people's well-being

Since gaining independence, African countries have explored ways of shaking off poverty and bringing the continent prosperity and strength.

Obama's rebalancing may backfire

Balance has become a key word in Asia. Before US President Barack Obama visited Asia, he said to the Japanese media that the goal of his Asia trip is to assure the US' Asian allies that the United States won't change its rebalancing strategy in Asia due to other international issues. However, what Obama brought to Asia was anything but balance.

Let the bubble be squeezed

DOES THE JAW-DROPPING PLUNGE IN PROPERTY sales in major Chinese cities during the May Day holiday indicate the country's decade-old housing boom has finally come to an end?

Development key to stability

How should we address the social problems that have left the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region vulnerable to terror threats and ethnic tension?