Kobe Bryant sat out his second straight game to rest his sore body, missing the Los Angeles Lakers' contest against the Chicago Bulls on Thursday night.
Building a global partnership network is a necessary and correct goal for any country that wants to promote its national interests around the world.
Joseph Stiglitz, one of the world's most influential economists today, sounded stern warnings to US policy and lawmakers in his article "China Century" in the January edition of Vanity Fair magazine.
On Christmas Eve, a college in a northwestern university organized a compulsory film-watching session to prevent students from leaving campus and celebrating the foreign festival.
The Western religious festival is so trendy that it may be the second-most-celebrated festival in China after Spring Festival among young Chinese, according to research conducted by the China Social Survey Institute, which found that 15-to 45-year-olds are the most likely to observe it... Many Chinese have become so much in tune with globalization that they don't really care whether this is Western or Chinese.
Editor's Note: Financial crises, economic uncertainties, splintering social groups and interests, and changing mass culture - what a world we're living in. This makes it all the more important for China to be guided toward a "rational middle ground" rather than toward increasing polarization, a leading political theorist Xiao Gongqin told China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang.
Japan's conservative daily Yomiuri Shimbun shocked many in the country in 2005, when it ran an editorial fulminating against then-prime minister Junichiro Koizumi's frequent visits to the Yasukuni Shrine. It said those visits were unnecessarily provocative to China and showed a willful ignorance of Japan's dark wartime history.
A NEW COUNTRYSIDE IN TERMS OF VILLAGERS was put forward at the Central Rural Work Conference that concluded on Tuesday. This shifts the emphasis from rural infrastructure construction alone to more care for villagers and more attention to their benefits.
We're used to equal development of the rural regions when it comes to constructing new roads, water and electricity facilities. From now on, the emphasis will be shifted to satisfying people's needs, such as caring for the vulnerable groups that remain in villages, providing better social services to them, and helping rural residents preserve the traditional culture to which they are accustomed.
In 2015 developed countries' economic growth could recover to the level of their potential. The growth rate of the US could even surpass its potential, supported by a healthy household balance sheet, a tighter labor market, and the rise in capacity utilization.
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