The Beijing municipal commission of health and family planning has just announced that since Jan 1, 2014 Beijing has increased the financial aid to mothers aged above 49 years old who have lost their only child from 200 yuan ($35.6) to 500 yuan a month, and their husbands from 160 yuan to 400 yuan.
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The Palace Museum mascots, Zhuangzhuang and Meimei, meaning strong and beautiful in Chinese, were introduced to the public in Xiamen, Fujian province, over the weekend.
China is to end a monopoly over the production and sale of table salt, dismantling a system that has been in place in various guises for more than 2,000 years and run by a state monopoly since 1950. The disbanding of the salt monopoly will start in 2016 and be complete by 2017.
Two years ago the Liberal Democratic Party, in opposition, won a landslide victory in the general election, putting Shinzo Abe in office for a second time as prime minister. But his mandate was less than meets the eye. Abe himself saw the results as a rejection of the then ruling Democratic Party of Japan rather than support for the LDP.
ARE THE MANY TYPES OF SURCHARGES CHINESE residents pay legitimate? Can the government departments that collect such fees give a clear account of how the money they have collected has been used? These are not just questions concerning governing transparency; the lack of a legal basis for many surcharges reflects how far China has to go in governing according to the law.
Resources such as water, electricity and natural gas can be monopolized by State-owned enterprises to avoid waste.
In economic policy, as in most other areas, actions speak louder than words. By cutting its benchmark policy interest rates, the People's Bank of China, the central bank, has underscored the tactical focus of the government's stabilization policy, which aims to put a floor of around 7 percent on GDP growth.
The past two weeks have seen three major conferences in the Asia-Pacific region, from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting in Beijing to the ninth East Asia Summit in Napyidaw, Myanmar, and the G20 Summit in Brisbane, Australia, focusing on regional economic integration and security.
China's high-profile anti-corruption investigations targeted at State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are set to cleanse the commercial giants. But to prevent corruption in those enterprises in the long term, a sounder modern corporate governance regime must be put in place.
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To take a "masculine" selfie, a man in Wuhu, Anhui province, asked his friend to capture the moment when they stood between rail tracks and forced a train to stop.
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