When Mirko Vuini left Italy's Juventus for Abu Dhabi's Al Jazira in July, skeptics wondered if it was a bulging pay packet rather than the prospect of slugging it out for the United Arab Emirates' league title that lured the Montenegrin to the Gulf.
Angry Azzurri coach Antonio Conte responded to Italy's critics following a 1-0 friendly win over Albania by claiming the once-feared Italian soccer player is now "dying out."
Prior to his departure from the recently concluded G20 Summit in Australia, US President Barack Obama, in a speech at the University of Queensland on Saturday, stressed that the Asia-Pacific region would remain a "fundamental focus" of US foreign policy and pledged to deepen the US' military engagement in the region.
The United States has been waging wars all over the world trying to deny safe haven to extreme terrorists. But to many Chinese, the US itself has for too long been a safe haven for a large group of bad guys - corrupt Chinese officials on the run.
EVEN LOOKING BACK ON THE REVOLUTIONARY changes the Internet has brought to our lives, the future its development will create for us is still probably beyond imagination. But what is clear is making the best use of the Internet will be of ever-greater importance to promoting sustainable economic development and social progress.
China's economy has entered a "new normal", which features innovation rather than investment as the driving force of growth; that creates an opportunity for the Internet economy.
Will Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe win the snap election he has called next month? It's a hard call.
The "Occupy Central" campaigners Benny Tai and Joshua Wong are featured on Foreign Policy's list of "leading global thinkers of 2014", for "making Beijing sweat".
Teachers are engineers of the human soul. This has been the belief in China since ancient times. Teachers, as some believe, should be distinguished in their thoughts and morality and talk less about "material" things so that they do not give off "copper smell", a term used to describe a person's greed for money.
A bright star has fallen. Gone are the golden years of Japanese films and TV dramas in China with the death of Ken Takakura on Nov 10.
During its over 90 years' history and 65 years' governance, the Communist Party of China has always considered corruption a fatal disease and tried to curb it.
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