Recently, China held an interim review meeting on the National Human Rights Action Plan (2012-15) which drew a lot of attention.
As the world prepares to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory against fascist forces in World War II and the triumph of the Chinese people in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45), the spotlight will be on former fascist powers, especially Japan, and their attitude toward their war crimes.
The Supreme People's Procuratorate and Supreme People's Court may get better-looking ratings this year when their work reports are presented for voting at the National People's Congress, as each has something impressive to report.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's remark that the Japanese government should face up to its wartime crimes during her visit to Japan on Monday sent a good warning to the Japanese public that they are being misled by political bias.
AT A RECENT NEWS CONFERENCE at the National People's Congress, Yin Weimin, minister of Human Resources and Social Security, said that the ministry expects to draft a policy on later retirement ages this year and will submit it to the central leadership next year; it hopes to make a formal plan in 2017 and implement it in another five years. He said this is in order to fill in the gap of social security fund. Comments:
IN A RECENT INTERVIEW, LE LUONG MINH, current secretary-general of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, said China's nine-dash line delineating its sovereignty in the South China Sea is "not binding", and that China's "illegal occupation" of islands and isles had affected the status quo and complicated the situation. Comments:
IN A RECENT transparency report on China's higher education released by the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, some top universities including Peking University and Tsinghua University, failed to make it into the top 10 regarding information disclosure. Comments:
Should or should not more rich people attend the annual sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee is a difficult question.
Individual income tax has become a hot topic at the annual sessions of the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee, with some saying that imposing income tax on families as composite units, rather than on individuals, could make the taxation system fairer.
The global competition for markets and resources is intensifying with many advanced Western economies implementing "re-industrialization" policies for the re-flow of capital and retracting investments in developing countries such as India and Vietnam.
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