If Western countries such as the United States, Canada and Australia have long been considered a safe haven by China's fugitive corrupt officials, the alliance China and the United States have formed against corruption should send chills down their spines.
The world should be increasingly vigilant against the moves of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe toward historical revisionism, as his expert panel set up to advise him on his statement to mark the end of World War II is nothing but a smoke screen serving to hide his real intentions.
MOST COUNTY-LEVEL AND ABOVE GOVERNMENTS in China have their own websites, but many of them have become "zombies' that are never updated. These zombie sites will hopefully disappear after the State Council announced on Tuesday that it will launch a general survey of government websites nationwide, and those that fail to update regularly will be removed. Comments:
SO MANY OFFICIALS IN SHANXI PROVINCE, North China, have fallen in the anti-corruption campaign that the province now has about 300 official positions vacant. Comments:
THE REALITY TV SHOW Wonderful Friends, which trains popular Chinese singers and movie stars to be keepers in a zoo, has high ratings, but there are some who criticize the show and want it to be stopped for the sake of the animals. Comments:
As its theme "Asia's New Future: Towards a Community of Common Destiny" indicates, the 2015 Bo'ao Forum for Asia is expected to focus on mutual interest and win-win cooperation of all Asian economies.
Heavy fighting continues in Myanmar's Kokang region despite the ongoing peace talks between the Myanmar government and the Kokang ethnic rebels. The fighting near the China-Myanmar border has at times spilled into Chinese territory, as was seen on March 13 when a bomb killed five Chinese nationals.
A mummified monk inside a gold-painted papier-mache Buddha statue that was exhibited in European museums (the latest being at Budapest) might have been stolen from a village in Fujian province in 1995.
The past week has seen a major shift in US attitudes towards the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs Nathan Sheets told the Wall Street Journal that the United States welcomes new multilateral institutions that strengthen the international financial architecture. He also hoped that the AIIB would co-finance projects with the World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
Top leaders vowed to accelerate the building of ecological civilization at a Tuesday meeting. The concept, which embodies the top leadership's vision in charting the country's new development path, has a far-reaching significance for China's economic and social development.
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