On Jan 27, hours after taking office, the new Greek government halted the privatization of the country's largest port in Piraeus. Since China's COSCO Group was likely to win part of the privatization bid for the port, which is also the starting point of a planned China-Europe land-sea "express line", many observers say China's investment in Greece now faces an uncertain future.
Fears about the impact of technology on the labor market are nothing new.
Hong Kong opposition Civil Human Rights Front organized a march themed "We want real universal suffrage rather than pseudo democracy" on Sunday, which was the first street protest in the city after last year's 79-day "Occupy Central" movement.
People ignorant or in denial of climate change and climate science are not new. Even the division between scientists on climate change is not new, although most (about 97 percent) active climate scientists believe humans are a major cause of climate change, while the number is "radically different" among economic geologists, or scientists who (according to Naomi Klein) study natural formations so that they can be commercially exploited.
Enjoy engaging moments in a magical Arabian style at Shangri-La Hotel, Qaryat Al Ber, Liu Weifeng reports
It used to be peak season around the end of year for catering and events at upscale hotels in China.
The New York Stock Exchange listed e-commerce giant Alibaba lost $11 billion in market value on Wednesday as it stepped into a high-profile war of words with the national market regulator over alleged sales of substandard and fake commodities on its online shopping platform, taobao.com.
The warm response to China's "Belt and Road Initiatives" is a direct reflection of the world's confidence in and support for China's peaceful development, says an article in People's Daily.
The competition between two county-level cities in Henan province, Central China, to be a stop on a planned high-speed railway, is getting fiercer with mass demonstrations and appeals in the cities of Xinye and Dengzhou, urging local officials to act more firmly. This is only one of the several ongoing competitions nationwide for high-speed railways, which are widely considered to promote fast track development. Comments:
In the run-up to the Lunar Chinese New Year, which falls on Feb 19, the lack of laborers and service staff has already hit metropolises and big cities as migrant workers start to go home for their family reunions. Comments:
TWENTY-EIGHT provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions recently held their annual meetings of people's congresses and local committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and 26 of them have lowered their GDP growth targets. Comments:
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