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Taking the icing off moon cakes

Election must abide by rule of law

The Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has explicated the method for the election of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's chief executive in 2017 through universal suffrage.

Mischief-maker needs to undo his mischief

A great throng of Chinese tourists swelled the number of foreigners visiting Japan to a record high in July. According to the Japan National Tourism Organization, nearly 1.27 million foreigners visited Japan in July, up 27 percent from a year earlier, with 281,200 Chinese tourists visiting the country, double the number that visited Japan 12 months ago.

Sino-Japanese ties worrying

THE PROSPECTS FOR SINO-JAPANESE RELATIONS are worrying when 90 percent of the Japanese people surveyed said they have a bad impression of China and 80 percent of the Chinese surveyed said they feel the same way about Japan, according to the latest survey conducted by China Daily in China and the non-profit organization Genron NPO in Japan.

Soured relations hurt both

Japan's leaders are responsible for the worsening of its relationship with China, because they insist on persisting with their wrongdoings over territorial disputes and historical problems. Their deeds are foolish because Japan is also suffering from the worsening relations. The Japanese leadership should change onto the right track to avoid further losses.

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Where is the balanced perspective in HK?

Hong Kong is one of the world's great metropolises, most travelers concur, and China sports the world's largest overall economy, most estimates agree. And so, if anything, when the two were reunified, it should have been a marriage made in political heaven.

Can we have no-gift Teachers' Day, please

Parents or teachers troubled by the increasing popularity of gift-giving should find welcome relief in the intensified measures taken by educational authorities against the malpractice. A few days before this year's Teachers' Day, which falls on Sept 10, the Ministry of Education issued a notice banning activities funded by public money and gift-giving, as well as extravagance in educational institutions, including schools.

Yuan for the China-UK expressway

The ongoing sixth China-UK Economic and Financial Dialogue has seen the two sides in similar spirit but with different expectations. Both sides believe the dialogue will promote bilateral trade and investment ties, strengthen macroeconomic policy coordination, boost the financial sector's development and cooperation, and support global economic recovery.

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Ban display of fascist symbols

US can untie the nuclear knot

In the early spring of 1995, I was appointed by former Chinese president Jiang Zemin as the ambassador for disarmament affairs in Geneva, and I became the chief Chinese negotiator for the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.