The country's press watchdog, the All-China Journalists' Association, twice exposed the plagiarism and forgery in some media reports last month. Such scrutiny indicates the watchdog's enhanced supervision over the sector, as well as the necessity of shoring up the ethics of media practitioners.
Absolute power without effective supervision and accountability for leaders of State-owned enterprises is an invitation to absolute corruption. This has been proved by the findings of discipline inspection teams after their investigations of several giant SOEs.
The faith, determination and action of leading officials at various levels should serve not only as a wind vane of their values but also a key driving force in the country's efforts to promote the rule of law, says a People's Daily article.
DAYS AFTER A DISPUTE BROKE OUT between the State Administration for Industry and Commerce and Alibaba Group, the corporation that runs taobao.com, China's equivalent of eBay, on whether the latter should be responsible for fake goods sold on its platform, an Alibaba shareholder launched a class action against Alibaba in New York. According to reports, the company listed in New York Stock Exchange was sued for misstatement of its business and risks, which led to investors' losses. Comments:
THE STATE GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF SPORTS, which is under disciplinary inspection, on Feb 3 announced that it would not publish the gold medal rankings for provincial regions this year, breaking a decades-long practice.
A LOCAL HERDSMAN in Qinghe county in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region found a 7.85-kilogram gold nugget shaped like the map of the Chinese mainland last week. Comments:
Central discipline inspection teams have investigated several State-owned enterprises since November 2014. The inspection reports they have released have exposed chain-type corruption in many of the SOEs.
The US government has just released its new National Security Strategy which stresses four main features, namely national security, economic development, American values, and the international order.
As the number of Chinese travelers taking trips abroad is projected to be greater than those travelling domestically during the upcoming Spring Festival, we are likely to hear more about the antics of some Chinese tourists abroad in the media this year. Last year's high-profile incidents were aptly put into perspective by most media outlets - the few outrageous incidents were hardly representative of Chinese tourists overall given more than 100 million Chinese traveled abroad last year.
Although six years have passed since the global financial crisis broke out, many countries have not yet overcome its impact with the global economy is still facing uncertainties. And given the economic slowdown, albeit slight, in China, it can be said that the Chinese and global economies have entered stages - which can be called "new normals" - which are far different from those in pre-crisis times.
Waiting for a colleague on a late afternoon in Brussels recently, I got a text message that she was at a police station reporting a robbery and assault case. Later, she called to tell me in detail what had happened: She had left her apartment building in the Schumann area, near the European Union headquarters, just before dusk to take a bus to meet me. But before she could do so, a man wielding a knife forced her to part with her handbag, which among other things contained her wallet, voice recorder and camera, and ran away with it.
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