Myanmar on Sunday openly expressed regret for the first time for Friday's bombing incident across the Myanmar-China border, which left five Chinese citizens dead and eight others injured in Southwest China's Yunnan province.
US scholars-not all, but surely a majority-tend to look at China from their own perspective: Why don't they have "one person, one vote"? Why do their citizens have no guns? Why do not the entrepreneurs unite and ask their government for more power? They do not necessarily think in a hegemonic way, but they choose to ignore the differences between China and the United States.
Russian President Vladimir Putinmet his Kyrgyz counterpart on Monday, ending the speculation of the Western media that he had been forced to lie low following the assassination of Russia's opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, which is considered one of the most outrageous political assassinations in this country.
Egypt is determined to rise from devastation of the West-led "Arab Spring" by building a glitzy new capital between the existing one in Cairo and the Suez Canal. The move aimed at building a pollution-free and sustainable city has won the support of many oil-rich Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and United Arab Emirates, which have pledged to provide the bulk of the $15 to 20 billion expenditure.
The fall of a deputy Party chief of Southwest China's Yunnan province has been described by some as the end of the willfulness of power.
China has no other choice but to push forward bold reform measures for the future development of sports, says a People's Daily article.
ON THURSDAY, THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE announced that it received confirmation from the United Kingdom that it was applying to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a founding member. If admitted, UK would be the first member of the G7 to join the AIIB. Comments:
AT THE CONCLUDING MEETING OF THIS YEAR'S PLENARY SESSION of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, the 2015 national budget received 304 no votes out of 2,483, the highest of all the eight reports the deputies voted on. Comments:
SUNDAY WAS the International Consumer Rights Day, and Premier Li Keqiang called on all online and offline stores to protect the rights and interests of consumers. Later the same day, an annual live show broadcast by China Central Television unveiled a number of consumer rights violations by companies. Comments:
At his press conference marking the conclusion of the annual session of the National People's Congress on Sunday, Premier Li Keqiang compared the development of the country's economy to the Chinese game of Go when explaining how his cabinet should do a better job in keeping its economy in sound shape.
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