When learning is labor lost

The true value of education is not economic success but pursuit of knowledge and development of personality

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EU should work with China on Africa

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is on his first visit to Africa since assuming office. He began his four-country tour in Ethiopia, where he visited the headquarters of the African Union. Li emphasized China's growing support for the AU, which recently became a member of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation.

From Occupy movement to American Spring

On Monday in New York City, 25-year-old graduate student Cecily McMillan was convicted of felony for elbowing police officer Grantley Bovell in the face when he led her out of the Zuccotti Park in downtown Manhattan on the night of March 17, 2012. New York police were trying to clear protesters in the park that day, the six month anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement.

Sustainable axis of growth

Development of the Yangtze River valley would open up inland areas and help realize the Silk Road economic belt

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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.

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