The wave of reform initiated by the Chinese leadership led by President Xi Jinping in 2012, has brought the country a new round of major changes 36 years after the late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping launched the reform and opening-up policy in the late 1970s.
A FIVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL was infected with AIDS after she underwent a blood transfusion in Fuzhou, Fujian province. The local authorities said one of the blood donors might have donated blood during the "window period", in which a person freshly infected does not test positive. Comments:
A NOTICE on the official website of Stockholm University said, the Confucius Institute branch in the university will be shut down on June 30, with its vice-chancellor saying that it is dubious, or questionable, to establish institutes within a university that are financed by another government. Comments:
In the main dairy producing areas such as Hebei and Shandong provinces and the Inner Mongolia autonomous region, many dairy farmers have begun to dump milk and even kill their cows due to falling milk prices.
The uncovering of a big network involving 11 groups suspected of selling contaminated pork in 11 provinces and autonomous regions is a great job by the police in these localities.
The anti-corruption campaign started by the current leadership of the nation about two years ago has met some questioning voices recently, alleging that too many officials have been involved, the Party's image has been blackened, and Xi's endeavor is useless because greed is just part of human nature.
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.
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