China and the United States hold obviously diverse opinions on how to define their new type of major-country relationship.
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation is meant to liberalize many profitable fields: free trade, innovative growth, and land and sea connectivity. This is fine. But it should also usher in a new Asia-Pacific culture, and here is why:
When President Xi Jinping welcomed his US counterpart Barack Obama and other APEC leaders in Beijing earlier this week, he offered his vision of an "Asia-Pacific Dream".
Leaders at the APEC conference in Beijing agreed to start the process of the Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific on Tuesday. The move is "a historic step we took in the direction toward realizing the FTAAP", President Xi Jinping said at a press conference after the conclusion of the 22nd APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting.
Running has become popular in China, especially in cities. It's become a habit with my friends to share their experiences and photographs of running on social networking sites. This year's Shanghai Marathon and Beijing Marathon were spectacular with thousands of people registering to take part in them.
The increase in housing prices in school districts, or areas where "elite" schools are located, amid overall downturn in the property market is the result of unbalanced distribution of educational resources, says an article on www.cnhubei.com. Excerpts:
Alibaba founder Jack Ma is now the richest man on the Chinese mainland. But factors restricting the growth of e-commerce have prompted many to speculate how long Ma will retain such a status, says an article in Beijing News. Excerpts:
A head-on collision between a passenger bus and a truck on a highway in southern Pakistan killed 58 people on Tuesday, the local police said. The collision ignited a fuel fire. A rescuer later described how he carried out a survivor, a 4-year-old girl, from the burning bus.
In the end, it wasn't the security cameras or the audit inspections in the vault of Albania's central bank that brought down Ardian Bitraj.
Relatives of Flight MH370 passengers have criticized beleaguered Malaysia Airlines after an official reportedly said authorities would set a date to announce the plane "lost". Such a declaration would mean the search would be called off, an industry source said.
The European Union's top court ruled on Tuesday that member states do not have to provide social welfare payments to EU citizens moving to their country solely to claim benefits.
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