Witnesses are reported as saying that hundreds of men, wearing uniforms and holding shields marked "police", attacked the villagers and started the fight. This is obviously a criminal gang, and the local police are responsible for finding out who organized them. By employing the poor to fight the poor, the organizers have committed a greater evil than the direct attackers.
Under growing pressure for boots on the ground in fighting the Islamic State extremists, US President Barack Obama is facing a major challenge to his legacy.
In China's bureaucratic system, there used to be hidden rules that influenced whether a senior official in a region was promoted. The most obvious was the "GDP law": Whoever made the greatest contribution to GDP growth was promoted more quickly than his rivals.
The possibility of Australia buying Japanese submarines is looming large. Media reports have revealed that talks are under way between the two countries over what would be the largest arms purchase in Australia's history.
FROM THE PEOPLE, TO THE PEOPLE AND FOR the people is what top leader Xi Jinping told a group of luminaries from the world of art and literature at a Wednesday forum.
Traditional Chinese culture is a dynamic, tolerant system that evolves constantly. For example, it seeks a society where everybody has good manners, yet respects the personality of every individual within the emerging concept of human rights.
Every political system grows out of a historical process, except in rare cases when change is imposed from the top, which happened in Japan after it surrendered at the end of World War II or in Hong Kong during the decade before it reunited with the motherland in 1997.
East Asia is one of the most economically advanced regions in the world, but it has not witnessed sufficient economic cooperation between the region's countries.
Asia matters - for Europe. And Europe matters - for Asia. That is why the Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) was created in 1996.
Over the telephone, in jail and online, a new digital bounty is being harvested: the human voice.
About 14 million major medical cases in the United States can be blamed on smoking, according to a study by health officials.
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