China released the summary of its overall economic performance in 2014 on Tuesday, which showed a 7.4 percent GDP growth, the lowest since 1990 and 0.1 percentage point lower than in 2013.
China is reforming the pension and wage system of civil servants and employees of government-funded public institutions, which covers about 50 million people.
Sad stories about migrant workers continue to occupy media headlines. On Monday, a 14-year-old girl fell to her death at an under-construction mansion in Jizhou, Hebei province, where she had gone to get her father's and other migrant workers' wage arrears. And a few days ago, a woman was reportedly beaten to death at a police station in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, for demanding her wages.
The wildly circulated news on the Internet that civil servants salaries are being raised was "confirmed" with the publication of an article in Hong Kong-based Wen Wei Po on Sunday and a positive response from a senior government official a day later.
On the surface, the Jan 7 attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo in Paris is a clear sign of the intense conflict between believers in different religions - Jews and Muslims, and Christians and Muslims - which has given rise to the anti-Islam, not just anti-terrorist, movement in the West.
On Jan 14, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, primarily operating in Yemen, claimed responsibility in a video for the terrorist attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris that killed 12 people on Jan 7.
The core of the "One Belt and One Road" initiative, the creation of a Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, is infrastructure construction. China should also include Africa in the initiative and encourage the transfer of its labor-intensive industries to Africa.
On Jan 10, a young man in Shishi, Fujian province, posted the headline, "A family of 34 all died", on his social network page with a photo of 34 dead mice and an explanation "Relax; it's a joke". The person was later detained by local police for "spreading rumors". Comments:
According to documents freshly issued by the State Council, civil servants and other workers at State agencies have got salary hikes, while in surveys many civil servants have complained about their low incomes. Comments:
Li Xiaowen, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a famous remote sensing scientist with Beijing Normal University, is known among the public as "the academician wearing cloth shoes".
Many have wondered why group after group of ethnic Uygurs have been found illegally entering Thailand and Vietnam.
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