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.
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.
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.
As usual, the top leadership's first "document" of the year was exclusively agricultural.
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.
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:
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:
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:
"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.
The No. 1 Central Document once again highlights the importance of modernizing agriculture. But many obstacles have to be overcome before agriculture can be truly modernized.
US President Barack Obama again praised the landmark China-US climate deal in his State of Union address. China's extensive coal-burning factories and auto emissions are widely blamed for the poor quality air in the country, but one important sector is often overlooked - its runaway real estate sector.
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