Show spirits of security

Asia needs peace, stability, and development. It needs a new security outlook that goes with, not against, the trends of the region.

Past and present appeal in House of Cards

Even its US producers are probably surprised that the TV series House of Cards has been such a hit with Chinese Internet users. For months, it has secured prominent ratings on various websites in China.

Reducing China-US distrust

US STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESWOMAN JEN Psaki told reporters in Washington that US Secretary of State John Kerry described the latest Chinese moves against Vietnamese provocations in the South China Sea as "provocative" during a telephone conversation with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

Graduate job prospects

It is the time of the year when soon-to-graduate college students are hitting the pavement in search of a career-launching job, but the class of 2014 is having no better luck in landing on their feet than those in the previous graduation season, said a commentary in People's Daily on Wednesday.

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Get a second helping of dim sum bonds

'Sell in May and go away" is a debatable trading adage but one which has stayed with investors through the years. The long-term unreliability of the maxim notwithstanding, there is growing uncertainty as we approach the midway mark for 2014.

Time for US to defuse Ukraine crisis

The second wave of US sanctions against Russian officials and the heated rhetorical exchange between the leaders of both countries, with each side blaming the other, show that Washington-Moscow relations have bottomed out. Ukraine has moved closer to civil war after Donetsk and Luhansk provinces in the eastern part of the country voted for independence in a referendum on Monday.

Letters

Civil servants need to change

From the Chinese press

Handle eco-protests with care

Reforming the capital market

In a move to create a more transparent and multilayer capital market and promote its healthy development, the State Council promulgated a guideline detailing an array of capital market reforms on Friday.

New type of urbanization is in the details

A Chinese translation of Allen B Jacobs' The Good City - Reflections and Imaginations was published in January. That its publication coincides with the release of the Chinese government's new urbanization plan is timely, as it poses the question what a good city should be like.

Rekindle the stock market

THE TIMING OF THE AUTHORITIES' LATEST promise on financial reforms might have made it look like a stopgap effort to boost the country's sagging stock market.