After worshipping gold medals for decades, China has finally taken a step to separate sports from utilitarianism and accord priority to sportsmanship.
The sixth State of the Union address on Jan 20 by US President Barack Obama, which covered American domestic and foreign affairs, was the most important speech of the president after his inaugural address. On education, he said: "We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record."
There is no doubt US politicians have not talked enough with their people about the positive aspects of US-China ties, which accounts for a large part of the full picture of bilateral relations. On the contrary, they have made increasing use of China as a bogeyman.
The residents of Beijing are no strangers to sinkholes.
Most debts raised by local governments and companies in China are used for investment. This is different from the debts of some countries, says an article in People's Daily.
IN A RECENT REPORT about product quality in e-commerce for the latter half of 2014, the State Administration for Industry and Commerce said that only 58.7 percent of product samples sold online are certified.
THE FIRST circuit court of the Supreme People's Court opened in Shenzhen, Guangdong province, on Wednesday. Accepting cases from the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, Guangdong and Hainan provinces, the court will mainly handle cross-province cases and issue final verdicts that are equivalent to that of the supreme court. Comments:
Officials should supervise their relatives and subordinates around them and not connive with them to capitalize on their positions for illegal gain, said President Xi Jinping at a recent meeting of discipline inspection departments of the Party.
Using the State of the Union address to deliver a "cheap shot" is hard to imagine, but this is what President Barack Obama did on Jan 20, when he declared "...as we speak, China wants to write the rules for the world's fastest growing region".
'China will flex its military muscle." This seems to be the message many Western and Japanese media outlets are giving by speculating that China might hold a grand military parade in September.
Predictably, the European Central Bank has joined the world's other major monetary authorities in the greatest experiment in the history of central banking. By now, the pattern is all too familiar.
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