In general, China's anti-corruption campaign has successively shifted from a mass movement and a leadership-directed practice that largely rest with power, to an institutionalized movement.
According to the criterion of the United Nations, a person steps into old age stage after crossing the age of 60 or 65 years, depending on the different age structure in the country he/she lives. Countries use this criterion to define "elderly people" and set the "retirement age", which means the retirement age could differ from country to country.
A public debate has been raging on the retirement age ever since the Third Plenum of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee in November 2013 suggested a progressive retirement age policy. The authorities want to raise the retirement age to fill up the financial gap in the old-age pension fund and increase labor supply to cope with the rising aging population.
The election in Greece on Jan 25th, may enable the far-left party Syriza to form a new government. Its leader has warned that Greece may exit the euro if the European Union and International Monetary Fund don't agree to loosen austerity measures. So "Grexit" is making headlines again after being in the news almost continuously in 2011 and 2012.
An "inflection point" in mathematics occurs when there is a change of curvature, say from concave to convex, at a particular point on a curve.
THE SHANGHAI AUTHORITY SAID on Sunday it was canceling its famed Lunar New Year Lantern Festival at Yuyuan Garden and a job fair in the wake of the stampede on the Bund on Dec 31 that left 36 people dead. Comments:
A CCTV REPORT found that underground surrogacy businesses are thriving these days. Underground agencies cheat young girls into donating egg cells, even bearing a baby for the rich, with the victims being mostly about 20 years old, some even still in high school. Comments:
Recently-exposed corruption cases are like a landslide in the political ecology, as they have involved a number of officials at various levels that collude with each other and engage in graft together.
Disregarding the commands of the flight and cabin crew on a plane is irresponsible and potentially dangerous, and something that civilized and law-abiding people should not do. But some passengers on a flight from Kunming to Beijing did just that on Saturday - opening three emergency exits despite the opposition of the cabin crew. As a result, the flight had to be canceled.
The friendly relations and win-win cooperation between China and Latin America add to their joint efforts in international affairs, and give their bilateral ties more global significance.
The two heavily armed perpetrators of the deadly attack on the offices of Paris-based satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Jan 7, were killed when police cornered them in northeast Paris on Friday. The two brothers, Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, killed 12 people, eight journalists, two police officers, a caretaker and a visitor in their killing spree.
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