A NEW NATIONAL REGULATION on curbing and preventing water pollution has obtained approval from the State Council, China's Cabinet, and could come into effect next month. Comments:
MANY WEBSITES of Beijing's government departments are only rarely updated, and some apps they have developed, such as the one created by the Beijing environmental monitoring center, have turned out to be rarely downloaded "zombie apps". The Beijing government has stipulated that all its official websites must be updated at least once a week and all departments have to improve their interactions with netizens. Comments:
Lee Kuan Yew and his followers, which most of the time included most of the people of Singapore, have showed the world that economic self-improvement has to have public policies grounded in best-practice, real-world pragmatism rather than ideological schematics.
The Obama administration is looking increasingly left behind as it defies its closest allies and the US president's own party on foreign economic policy in Asia. The Obama administration rebuked the United Kingdom for agreeing to participate in negotiations for the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, even though the new institution would fill a major gap in Asian infrastructure needs.
As the second-largest economy in the world, China is not only playing an increasing influential role in the global economy, but also leading changes that would have been unthinkable even a decade ago.
Is Japan's economy taking a turn for the better? The Nikkei, Japan's leading business daily, recommends keeping an eye on women's hairstyles and eyebrows for an answer.
The reopening of the regular talks between the foreign ministers of China, the Republic of Korea and Japan on Sunday in Seoul, after a hiatus of three years, sends a positive signal of a thaw in the relations between Japan and its two neighbors.
The 2015 Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference to open on Thursday will push Asian countries to take further steps toward building a "community of shared destiny", says a People's Daily article.
US FEDERAL PROSECUTORS IN CALIFORNIA HAVE ANNOUNCED that they are suing Qiao Jianjun, a former Chinese official suspected of embezzling 300 million yuan ($48.4 million), for fraud in obtaining his immigration visa when he fled to the United States. His former wife is already under arrest. This is the first instance of a corrupt Chinese official being sued in US. Comments:
WITH IN SIX DAYS OF THE CONCLUSION OF THE ANNUAL SESSIONS of the National People's Congress and the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, four tigers, or senior officials, at the vice-ministerial or higher, have been placed under investigation for corruption. Comments:
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