ON FRIDAY, THE MEXICAN FINANCE MINISTER, Luis Videgaray announced the shelving of the tender for a $3.75 billion high-speed railway designed to connect the capital Mexico City and the central city of Queretaro, citing the drop in oil prices. A Chinese consortium was considered the most likely to win the contract. Comments:
AT A NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STRENGTHENING ideological education, Yuan Guiren, China's minister of education, said: "Textbooks that spread Western values should never appear in our universities." Comments:
Li Qiufang, a senior official of communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, China's top anti-graft body, said on Thursday that after investigating them for corruption last year, the CCDI will further regulate the film and television industry this year, with special attention paid to eliminating the "hidden rules" such as the giving of bribes to bureaucrats. Comments:
Recently several local regions, especially those with poor transport links and which lag behind economically, have been competing to get high speed railways.
On Jan 27, hours after taking office, the new Greek government halted the privatization of the country's largest port in Piraeus. Since China's COSCO Group was likely to win part of the privatization bid for the port, which is also the starting point of a planned China-Europe land-sea "express line", many observers say China's investment in Greece now faces an uncertain future.
Fears about the impact of technology on the labor market are nothing new.
Hong Kong opposition Civil Human Rights Front organized a march themed "We want real universal suffrage rather than pseudo democracy" on Sunday, which was the first street protest in the city after last year's 79-day "Occupy Central" movement.
People ignorant or in denial of climate change and climate science are not new. Even the division between scientists on climate change is not new, although most (about 97 percent) active climate scientists believe humans are a major cause of climate change, while the number is "radically different" among economic geologists, or scientists who (according to Naomi Klein) study natural formations so that they can be commercially exploited.
Enjoy engaging moments in a magical Arabian style at Shangri-La Hotel, Qaryat Al Ber, Liu Weifeng reports
It used to be peak season around the end of year for catering and events at upscale hotels in China.
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