WITH MORE DETAILS about the deadly fire in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, being released, experts nationwide doubt that local bureaucrats issued orders to firefighters contrary to expert opinions, which led to the death of five firefighters. Comments:
Since November 2012 President Xi Jinping has been following a new style of speaking and writing, which is different from any of those adhered to by past leaders.
Despite the low profile and low-level nature with no substantial results, that Chinese and Japanese defense and maritime officials did meet and talk means a lot.
The endeavor against corruption will be "on the road forever", Chinese leader Xi Jinping said on Tuesday. This once again emphasizes his views on fighting corruption and Party construction after his earlier comments were first released in a book published on Monday.
Global growth in 2014 was yet again lower than initially expected, continuing a pattern of disappointing outturns over the past several years. Growth picked up only marginally in 2014, to 2.6 percent, from 2.5 percent in 2013. The global growth outlook for 2015 is not rosier either: it is expected to rise moderately to 3 percent, and an average about 3.3 percent through 2017.
A decade ago China began opening centers abroad called Confucius Institutes to share its culture and language with the rest of the world. Today, there are more than 300 Confucius Institutes in more than 90 countries, and China aims to establish 1,000 Confucius Institutes by 2020.
The latest change in the family planning policy which allows couples to have a second child if one (or both) of them is the only child of his/her parents is just more than a year old.
To an increasing number of Australians, how to balance their country's relations with the United States and Japan on the one hand, and with China on the other, is a paradox. An opinion poll released last week may provide a practical solution for Canberra as it looks to navigate its way around the sensitive issues involving Beijing, Tokyo and Washington.
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:
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