Global attention is likely to stay on Beijing even after the APEC meetings next week, as an important security forum is also being hosted by the city later this month.
IF PREVENTING POWER FROM BEING ABUSED is of importance to governing according to the law, what the central inspection teams do is speeding up the realization of this goal by finding out how power is abused and how serious the problem is.
Corruption is a cancer that can easily reappear after it has been treated. As the anti-graft storm has deterred officials from giving in to temptation, what is needed is to introduce the rule of law and shut power in a cage of regulations, so that the culture of corruption, which is quite rampant among officials, can be replaced with a healthy, clean culture.
There appears to be a race between the United States and China to dominate the rules-setting game for trade by being the first to be able to announce plans of realizing a Free Trade Agreement for the Asia-Pacific.
Apple CEO Tim Cook's announcement that he is gay has provoked extremely divided online comments. The corporate world, and the world at large, will not be the same regarding gay issues after his courageous step.
'The disaster has put me through the mill and made me more profoundly understand the power of friendship, the value of kinship and the sense of responsibility to become a useful person to society." This is what Lei Chunian, then 15 years old, said six years ago in a report on his heroic deed during the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake.
I've taught students in the United States, Russia and, now, China. Students are much the same the world over. They are children. You will have some very exceptional students in every class. Nonetheless, most students are average in their IQ. For these students, the difference between doing well and not doing well will largely depend on their teacher (or teachers).
Three suspects in Beiliu, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region - two of whom are civil affairs officials from Guangdong province - have been prosecuted for "stealing corpses from graves."
Shandong Lanxiang Vocational School in Jinan, Shandong province, is caught in several scandals involving the school itself and its founder-president Rong Lanxiang. So, instead of giving clumsy excuses for the scandals, Rong should first try to solve the self-inflicted problems, says an article in Beijing News. Excerpts:
At a recent meeting of the Central Leading Group for Overall Reform, President Xi Jinping, who is the group's leader, stressed that China should build a batch of think tanks with relatively big influence and good international reputation, saying its think tank building has increasingly failed to adapt to changing situations.
These days it seems many people in Japan are reading their tea leaves to find out about their country's relations with China.
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