THE STATE GENERAL ADMINISTRATION OF SPORTS, which is under disciplinary inspection, on Feb 3 announced that it would not publish the gold medal rankings for provincial regions this year, breaking a decades-long practice.
A LOCAL HERDSMAN in Qinghe county in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region found a 7.85-kilogram gold nugget shaped like the map of the Chinese mainland last week. Comments:
Central discipline inspection teams have investigated several State-owned enterprises since November 2014. The inspection reports they have released have exposed chain-type corruption in many of the SOEs.
The US government has just released its new National Security Strategy which stresses four main features, namely national security, economic development, American values, and the international order.
As the number of Chinese travelers taking trips abroad is projected to be greater than those travelling domestically during the upcoming Spring Festival, we are likely to hear more about the antics of some Chinese tourists abroad in the media this year. Last year's high-profile incidents were aptly put into perspective by most media outlets - the few outrageous incidents were hardly representative of Chinese tourists overall given more than 100 million Chinese traveled abroad last year.
Although six years have passed since the global financial crisis broke out, many countries have not yet overcome its impact with the global economy is still facing uncertainties. And given the economic slowdown, albeit slight, in China, it can be said that the Chinese and global economies have entered stages - which can be called "new normals" - which are far different from those in pre-crisis times.
Waiting for a colleague on a late afternoon in Brussels recently, I got a text message that she was at a police station reporting a robbery and assault case. Later, she called to tell me in detail what had happened: She had left her apartment building in the Schumann area, near the European Union headquarters, just before dusk to take a bus to meet me. But before she could do so, a man wielding a knife forced her to part with her handbag, which among other things contained her wallet, voice recorder and camera, and ran away with it.
The invitation the US government has extended to President Xi Jinping for a state visit, and the similar invitations extended to major Asian countries, which were announced by US National Security Adviser Susan Rice on Friday, has been viewed by some as a signal of United States deepening its "pivot to Asia."
Leading officials at various levels have a key role to play in China's bid to realize the rule of law, says a People's Daily editorial.
Editor's Note: The article is an excerpt of the statement by Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi at the Opening Session of the 51st Munich Security Conference on Saturday.
The only celebrity member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference Jiangmen City Committee in South China's Guangdong province, Zeng Zhiwei, aHong Kong-based actor, has been criticized for failing to perform his duty as a political advisor.
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