Syrian civil war a global threat

The horrific war in Syria continues to worsen and bleed beyond its borders. A cold calculation seems to be taking hold: that little can be done except to arm the parties and watch the conflict rage. The international community must not abandon the people of Syria and the region to never-ending waves of cruelty and crisis.

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From the Chinese press

Building castles in the air

Education meets the market

Education in China is looking at a new era, an era in which vocational education and training will play a greater role in the country's education system as well as the economy.

Bigots are biggest threat to Uygur culture

The concussions created by the deadly riots in 2009 that left nearly 200 people dead in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in northwestern China, have not fully healed even in five years.

How to treat Net addiction creatively

In Daxing, a suburb of Beijing, young patients live in guarded cells behind walls topped with barbed wire. They take medication, participate in therapy and adhere to a physical and dietary regimen to treat their supposed disorder: Internet addiction. The problem and its alleged cures have become so great that in 2009, the Chinese government banned physical punishment to wean adolescents from the Internet and, before that, had outlawed the use of shock treatment to treat the disorder.

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Thawing a budding Cold War

President Xi Jinping's visit to Seoul is a significant and proactive effort to restabilize trust in Northeast Asia

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Finger pointing not the way forward

A year ago, Chinese and US government officials worked around the clock to prepare for the fifth China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue, a meeting that was expected to match the upbeat tone set by Presidents Xi Jinping and Barack Obama at their shirt-sleeves summit in Sunnylands, California.

Truth about Japan's atrocities

In order to achieve the status of being a "normal country", the Shinzo Abe administration in Japan has been doing everything it can to bury the country's criminal war record. With their false sense of pride, Abe and his cronies haven't hesitated to lie and deny younger generations access to the truth.

Rectifications needed, not excuses

At a recent State Council meeting, Premier Li Keqiang urged the State departments concerned to carefully rectify the problems exposed by the auditing authorities and report the actions taken to the State Council by the end of October; they will also be made public. Such a definite deadline is expected to prompt the departments to address the issue seriously and take practical measures to rectify the problems exposed during their audits, a Beijing News editorial said.