As a young boy growing up in the city of Detroit, Michigan, in the 1950s, we were taught that police were our friends. Their shiny badges seemed to confirm this with the Latin motto Tuebor - I will defend.
Although there have never been any set criteria to define the boundary between art and pornography, art depicting the human form in the name of "beauty" should, in the eyes of most people, at least not excessively offend or challenge the ethical and moral bottom line of society.
The US Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to end the unwarranted bulk collection of millions of US citizens' phone records.
FIFA needs an overhaul, Sepp Blatter said in his resignation speech on Tuesday, just four days after his reelection as president of the world football governing body. The scandals that have haunted FIFA during his tenure have finally come home to roost with the controversial detention of six of its high-level officials last week.
The most serious distortion of the current taxi sector regulations lies in monopolistic operation by taxi companies resulting from the control on the number of cabs and a strict market access, Zhang Guohua, director of an institute of urban traffic research affiliated to the National Development and Reform Commission, the top economic planner, pointed out in a recent signed article.
While efforts continue to find any survivors on the ship that capsized in the Yangtze River near Jianli county in Central China's Hubei province on Monday, there has been much discussion and speculation about what caused the accident and how to prevent another tragedy. Comments:
The No 1 Hospital Affiliated to Zhengzhou University in Zhengzhou, Henan province in Central China, has been called the world's "biggest and richest" after disclosing its revenue last year. The hospital, which has more than 7,000 beds, made nearly 7.6 billion yuan ($1.27 billion) last year. Comments:
KFC, a fast food chain under the United States-based Yum Brands Inc, confirmed on Monday that it has filed lawsuits against 10 public online accounts of three Chinese companies that allegedly "spread rumors" about its food quality.
China started a live-fire drill in Southwest China's Yunnan province near the Myanmar border on Tuesday after having notified Myanmar in advance.
Amid widespread reporting in the West, KFC launched lawsuits on Monday against three Chinese companies whose social media accounts allegedly made comments about the origins of the chicken used by KFC; including the claim that KFC chicken originates from chickens with eight legs.
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