During his weeklong visit to the United States that started on April 25, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has made some economic and military breakthroughs in US-Japan alliance. The two countries seek to implement the new guideline for their defense cooperation and expedite the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement negotiations.
An online debate on war heroes has divided Chinese netizens. A recent post on SinaWeibo, a Twitter-like social network tool, mocked Qiu Shaoyun, a Chinese soldier who died in a fire during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953), as "roast meat". And some even said the story about Huang Jiguang taking a hail of bullets to protect his fellow soldiers is "false".
Fifty-eight percent of Chinese read at least one book last year, according to the latest national reading survey. The figure is 2.4 percentage points lower than that in 1999 when the annual survey was introduced. Compared with other countries, Chinese read fewer books a year (4.56) than Americans (7), Japanese (8.5) and South Koreans (11).
Tibetan mastiff owners usually give their pets a glorious funeral to honor their lifelong faithfulness and services as shepherd dogs. But recently some of the prized animals almost ended up in hot pot restaurants, because their raisers could not afford to feed them any more after failing to find buyers for them.
Last week a poster in Beijing's Xicheng district civil affairs bureau marriage registration office drew criticism for being discriminatory to women. The poster read: "A woman's best achievement is to be a good housewife and a good mother. Why do women compete with men for resources and territory?"
That being the president of a big State-owned hospital can be very lucrative is no secret; the procurement of medical equipment and medicines has long been considered a channel to get kickbacks.
The slowed global economic recovery has highlighted numerous problems in the existing international system, prompting growing calls for better global governance.
THE OFFICIAL SITE OF THE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY announced on April 26 that three more senior military officers are under investigation, bringing the total number of fallen "tigers" (senior corrupt officials) to 102. Some media outlets have even released a chart of "100 tigers" giving details of who they are. Comments:
AFTER A MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE HIT NEPAL on Saturday, claiming thousands of lives, China arranged emergency flights to help rescue tourists trapped in the country. The air force also said it would send four transporters to help the quake survivors. Comments:
A RECENT China Central Television investigation found strawberries bought at random from eight Beijing retailers contained two pesticide residues in a lab test. Residues of Acetochlor, which is not even registered in China's national standards for food residues, were fairly high. Comments:
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