China's Belt and Road Initiative to boost common development must overcome geopolitical, cultural and security risks, because it should be aimed more at benefiting people and less at making money.
Libo county officials in Southwest China's Guizhou province recently ordered a woman surnamed Tan to abort her five-month pregnancy because she had violated the local family planning rule. The middle-school teacher has a child from her first marriage and her present husband has an adopted child, so she is not eligible to have another child, the officials said, warning her that she would lose her job for not following the order.
A TV drama set during China's War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) has been pulled off the air, showing the country's top film, TV and radio watchdog has finally taken action against controversial Japan-related films and TV plays that distort historical facts and challenge common sense.
Money has become omnipotent. It is used to measure the value of life and increasingly so to determine the cost of death. Economists have been trying to assign monetary value to every living and non-living objects. Just the other day an American paid $350,000 Namibian authorities to hunt an endangered black rhino saying the amount was enough to compensate for the loss and would help raise awareness about wildlife and boost efforts to save the species from extinction.
Customers and staff members in Beijing's bars and nightclubs are exposed to the most secondhand smoke in the city, according to a survey by health authorities.
President Xi Jinping has asked authorities to befriend and recruit more non-Communist Party of China intellectuals and representatives, stressing their role in economic development and in cleansing the Internet.
Talented recruits were in high demand on the Chinese mainland in the first quarter, especially in the State-owned enterprises sector, according to an employment survey.
With college graduation ceremonies just weeks away, job hunting has entered its most intense period. Graduates are finding that although gender discrimination in employment has been officially prohibited for years, it remains widespread.
A steel plant in Hanzhong that reported record-high production in April was repeatedly rejected over environmental concerns and continues to operate despite multiple failures to receive ministry approval, media reports said.
Police in Hubei province have cracked down on a gang suspected of deleting online posts, with 10 alleged members arrested and another five on the run.
Sumesh Dwivedi jumped for his life from the second floor of his rented house when he felt the earth move suddenly on April 25. He ended up in a hospital.
Sixteen people were missing after a landslide hit a nine-story building in Guiyang, capital of Guizhou province, local authorities said on Wednesday.
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