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By denying wartime history, Abe will lose faith

Since taking office in 2012, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made consistent efforts to reinterpret the historic 1995 Murayama Statement: the then Japanese prime minister Tomiichi Murayama's apology for the damage and suffering caused by Japan to its neighbors before and during World War II.

All that glitters to hook you could be deadly

If you have visited or lived in China, chances are you have seen beautiful, glittering displays of cigarettes in specialist tobacco stores or around the cashier in convenience stores.

Pension reforms help promote social equality

The State Council, China's Cabinet, announced pension reforms for civil servants and public sector employees in Jan 2015, bringing them under the purview of the urban basic pension insurance scheme. The historic move signifies the abolition of the fragmented pension fund systems and the end of the privilege pension system for public sector.

Manila's antics just self-serving troublemaking

To confront Beijing over their South China Sea territorial dispute, Manila has resorted to many tricks in recent years. Its real intention is to lead others by the nose and cajole them into believing the story of its own making in which it portrays itself as a weak and small country trying to stand up to the bullying of a big neighbor.

Official words can lift GM food awareness

As usual, the top leadership's first "document" of the year was exclusively agricultural.

Proper goals for school soccer

Pragmatic and workable reform measures are expected to boost the development of the country's widely maligned world of soccer, says a People's Daily article.

Web giant Tencent obligated to tackle pirated content

FOR EVERY ONE WRITER THERE ARE 99 PIRATES, ready to copy - that sentence, quoted from a recent Xinhua News Agency report, best describes the rampant violation of copyrights on WeChat, a social media platform popular in China. Many accounts do not produce any original content at all and all they post are copied articles. Comments:

Companies liable for security of personal info

AN INCREASING NUMBER OF PEOPLE who have bought an air ticket are falling prey to a scam in which they receive a message saying their flight has been canceled and they need to pay to change it. The messages contain detailed information about the passengers' names, flight numbers, even their ID card numbers, and reports suggest airline companies, ticket agencies or their staff members are guilty of having sold passenger information. Comments:

Judicial warmth does not solve medicines problem

A CHINESE LEUKEMIA patient named Lu Yong, who was arrested for reportedly purchasing unlicensed anticancer drugs overseas for himself and other patients via an illegal credit card, was released on Jan 29 in Yuanjiang, Hunan province. Comments:

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"The political ecology in some places is so corrupt that clean officials are rounded up and hunted by those that are corrupt," said Wang Qishan, China's discipline chief, in a speech at the Fifth Plenary Session of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection of the Communist Party of China.