The cancellation of a "square voting" planned by the "Occupy Central" organizers to take place on Sunday and Monday indicates that the protestors have lost the popularity among Hong Kong residents.
The Chinese government's response to the smog covering Beijing before the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting on Nov 5-11 gives me a sense of d��j�� vu, albeit of a positive kind.
The most popular conspiracy theory is that the United States and Saudi Arabia have combined to take money away from their major adversaries - Russia and Iran - and to bring them to the negotiating table in order to sort out a deal on Ukraine and Iran's nuclear ambitions, respectively.
It's unreasonable to raise prices of tickets to tourist spots before every "Golden Week" holiday.
Speaking at the closing ceremony of a literary symposium in Beijing on Oct 25, Mo Yan, the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature, hinted that he might look for a "hideout" next year to write, which he has failed to do since winning the prize.
A publicity campaign in Liu'an, Anhui province, themed "24 Filial Piety Stories" of ancient China, have been criticized by a lot of residents for being poorly made and conveying the wrong values. In particular, people have identified one of the 24 stories, Guo Ju Burying His Son, for delivering the wrong message on filial piety.
The Fourth Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, held last week in Beijing, put forward some new ideas and measures for ruling the country by law.
Five years ago, when the Lisbon Treaty came into effect, Brussels had great ambitions of building a "United States of the European Union". It appointed Herman Van Rompuy the first permanent president of the European Council to oversee the longer-term issues and act as a low-profile consensus builder within the EU.
THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CRIMINAL Law, the 9th set to be submitted for legislative review, will indeed help better protect citizens' rights. But they will almost certainly create confusion if they are passed as they are, and without proper elaboration.
The abolition of death penalty for nine types of crime will help China more easily convince other countries to extradite corruption suspects that have fled overseas.
As the US Federal Reserve attempts to exit from its unconventional monetary policy, it is grappling with the disparity between the policy's success in preventing economic disaster and its failure to foster a robust recovery.
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