Real Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti has confirmed midfielder Angel di Maria has asked to leave the European champion before the end of the transfer window.
Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard announced on Thursday he will be taking a one-year break from international duty with the United States.
Probes into both domestic and foreign-funded enterprises are push for a more regulated market order and maturer mechanisms
Just two days after US President Barack Obama called China a free rider in an interview with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, US Secretary of State John Kerry, in his Asia policy speech at the East West Center in Hawaii last Wednesday, listed climate change a common cause for the two largest greenhouse gas emitters on the planet.
WHAT IS THE GIST OF DENG XIAOPING'S thought and how does it apply to China's development today? These questions are worth discussing as the anniversary of his 110th birthday is observed on Friday.
From allowing some to become wealthy first to stressing common prosperity among all, social equality has remained one of the important issues since Deng Xiaoping's later years. From top leader Xi Jinping's promise to make society more equitable to the resolution of the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee to promote social equity and justice and enhance people's welfare; from the fierce nationwide campaign to fight corruption and privilege and promote political equality to the unprecedented effort to reform the 60-year-old barriers to urban-rural migration; from the simplification of administrative procedures to the delegating of more powers from the central to local governments; all the government's measures are a reflection of its ongoing efforts to promote social equality.
One hundred and fifty years ago to the day, the first Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field was adopted, enshrining the idea in international law that even in times of war, a certain degree of humanity must be preserved. Switzerland and the International Committee of the Red Cross, which together helped to secure acceptance for international humanitarian law on the world stage at that time, are now calling for stricter compliance with this principle, as there remains a lack of effective mechanisms for encouraging compliance around the globe.
It would be imprecise to refer to the terrorist "regime" led by its self-proclaimed Khalifah "Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi" as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS). In June the dreaded leader removed the geographical restriction of his "state", replacing it with just "Islamic State" and commanding Muslims across the world to pledge loyalty to the new "ISIS".
Public scrutiny of celebrity drug users has peaked with the detention of kung fu superstar Jackie Chan's son in Beijing. Jaycee Chan, 31, also an actor, was detained on Aug 14 along with 23-year-old Taiwan movie star Kai Ko. Beijing police said on Aug 18 that both actors had tested positive for marijuana and admitted using the drug. Besides, 100 grams of marijuana was seized from Jaycee Chan's house in Beijing.
This year marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping. Although seventeen years have elapsed since Deng's passing away in 1997, China is still forging ahead in the overall direction of reform and opening-up to the outside world that Deng charted for China after he became the paramount leader at the end of the 1970s.
Australian billionaire-turned legislator Clive Palmer's TV rant against China has naturally met with strong condemnation from both China and Australia. Palmer's insulting remarks only lay himself bare as a man of low character and a politician with no sense of responsibility.
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