For 23 consecutive years, the UN General Assembly has adopted resolutions calling for an end to the US economic, commercial and financial embargo on Cuba. While the deal announced today does not mention changes to the embargo, Barack Obama has reportedly expressed willingness to discuss lifting the sanctions.
Dec 20, 2014 marks the 15th anniversary of the Macao Special Administrative Region's return to the motherland.
Premier Li Keqiang is playing the role of "high-speed train ambassador" again during his ongoing visits in Europe as leading officials from China, Hungary, Serbia and Macedonia agreed on Wednesday to build a land-sea express route by expanding the Budapest-Belgrade rail line to Skopje, Athens and the major container port of Piraeus in Greece.
Liu Tienan, former vice-minister of the National Development and Reform Commission and former chief of the National Energy Administration, was sentenced to life for abuse of power on Dec 10.
Terrorist attacks usually refer to acts of violence that are intended to spread fear and panic among the people. Usually, the perpetrators belong to some extremist groups and have religious, political or ideological motives.
The media should not spread misleading values. Why should the media suggest that all good-looking women should be brought to viewers' notice and prompted into the entertainment circle? says an article on guancha.gmw.cn. Excerpts:
It takes more than passion and good physique to be a good marathon runner. So marathon organizers must pay more attention to providing timely first aid to the runners, says an article on guancha.gmw.cn. Excerpts:
China faces uncertainties in its diplomacy. Its relations with the United States and some neighboring states are "locked" in strategic competition, territorial and other maritime disputes. And some say China faces the so-called Thucydides trap, or the inevitable clash between a rising power and an existing one, which applies first on the ocean, where the majority of the structural competition and potential confrontations are.
Can money buy happiness? It certainly can in terms of the material comfort that can be purchased with money.
That is why the same people who were praised and rewarded for having an innocent man convicted and executed in 1996 are now themselves under investigation.
Compared with 18 years ago, China's courts today issue the death penalty more cautiously and review the cases more strictly, which decreases the possibility of wrong verdicts. Yet much remains to be done to prevent similar wrongs. The law that excludes evidence obtained by torture needs to be better implemented, and presumption of innocence as a principle should be followed.
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