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Making salary reform a success

China has decided to impose a cap on top executives' salaries in the State sector as part of its reform drive against the controversial group. Although it has not been decided how steep the cuts would be, it is certain that the actions and incomes of the fat cats would be more closely scrutinized.

Real challenge is beyond ice buckets

The Ice Bucket Challenge has taken China's entertainment and executive worlds by storm after making its debut more than a week ago, with public reading of the news on Sina weibo, China's Twitter-like social media platform, crossing 2.9 billion hits in just a few days.

US may be a friend but China can't be an enemy

As tensions rise between Washington and Beijing over China's islands dispute with Japan, American strategists have been thinking about how to accommodate China while continuing to stand behind their ally, Japan.

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Full freedom of religion in China

From the Chinese press

Realty rule good but won't end graft

Building on Deng's US policy

August 22 marks the 110th anniversary of the birth of Deng Xiaoping. While Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai are the undisputable founders of China-US relations in the modern era, Deng was an energetic pioneer and his ideas and propositions on relations with the United States are still being carried forward by China's leaders today.

Racism against China hurts Australia

When I studied at the University of Sydney in 2009 for a master's degree in media, I was surprised by the interest ordinary Australians had in China. Not only was China the topic for class discussions every week, one of my lecturers also told me during an after-class chat that she was sending her son to learn fencing in Shanghai in the upcoming summer holiday as China had emerged as an ideal place for his training. Later, my supervisor at a local magazine where I had a month's internship told me his son was studying Chinese at Beijing University of Languages and Culture, as he believed the language advantage would help his son find a job in Australia which was forging an increasingly closer bond with China.

Unaffordable welfare abuse

IT HAS BEEN REPORTED THAT IN CENTRAL CHINA'S Hunan province, low-rent housing, a welfare that the government provides for low-income families, has become a means some people use to make money. It is a matter of social justice and fairness and it should never be ignored or handled with kid gloves.

Cases more complex than rules

Affordable housing relies on government subsidies to maintain low rents or low prices. The policy aims at using taxpayers' money to help those on low incomes get a place to live. Therefore those who get a permit to reside in them are breaking the law when they rent them out and such deeds should be punished.

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Antitrust probes open and fair

The recent high-profile probes into multinational shipping, auto and high-tech companies have been accompanied by penalties on State-owned enterprises and sweeping measures to tackle administrative monopolies.