THE MOTIVE BEHIND THE UK PARLIAMENT Foreign Affairs Committee's (FAC) ongoing review on the implementation of the Sino-British Joint Declaration is dubious at best. This is especially true when considering its timing - at a time when Hong Kong society is torn apart by the illegal "Occupy Central" campaign being staged by political dissidents.
China resumed sovereignty over Hong Kong on July 1, 1997, and what happens in Hong Kong since then is China's domestic affairs. It is incredible that UK members of parliament are attempting to "investigate" the situation in Hong Kong, because that violates China's sovereignty as well as agreements reached between two countries. The UK members of parliament must know their requests are illegal.
Amid euphoria and fanfare, water from the $40-billion middle-route of the gigantic South-North Water Transfer Project is set to reach Beijing in a matter of days. For the parched Chinese capital, which is in the same league as Saudi Arabia in terms of per capita water availability, this event is worth more than celebration.
The National Health and Family Planning Commission has said it would continue to collect social maintenance fees, or fines paid by couples for having more children than the State allows, and there is no timetable for implementing the two-child policy. The commission's remark was in response to public concerns over the draft regulation on the issue which it has submitted to the State Council, the cabinet, for approval.
In the last couple of decades, as global trade has evolved, mid-sized corporations have also come to play a much more important role in supply chains. Whereas in the past, they would have focused on domestic markets, these days many such companies are fully active in overseas trade as suppliers and distributors.
World AIDS Day, observed on Dec 1, is a global public health campaign launched by the World Health Organization in 1987.
Criticism of academic works and research should be based on sound knowledge and understanding of a subject. It's unfair to make fun of a doctoral candidate just because the title of her dissertation sounds like a culinary dish, says an article in Beijing News. Excerpts:
Administrative departments must take measures to cleanse automobile promotions of vulgar contents. Such events must promote automobiles, not half-naked models, says an article on guancha.gmw.cn. Excerpts:
The Fourth Plenum of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee in October, which vowed to boost the rule of law, laid special emphasis on judicial reform, such as the circuit and trans-provincial courts adopted at Tuesday's top-level meeting on overall reform.
The joint pledge taken by China and the United States, the two largest greenhouse gas (GHG) emitters, around the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Beijing in November to fight climate change took the world by surprise.
IN A HISTORICAL, AND HISTORIC, FIRST, JUDICIAL workers across the Chinese mainland are swearing allegiance to the Constitution in celebration of the country's first Constitution Day.
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