With China preparing to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II, it is time to reflect on the past and take measures to fortify a peaceful future. The anniversary is especially important for China because it not only bore the brunt of Japanese aggression before and during WWII, but also played a key role in Japan's defeat.
The news that former US president Jimmy Carter's cancer has spread to his brain is saddening. Even as a political appointee in the Carter administration, I cannot say he was a great president but he certainly is one of our most exemplary former presidents. By fully disclosing his condition he continues to lead by example, as he has done before.
We can still recall the gleams in the eyes of Goldman Sachs statisticians in 2000 as they crunched data creating correlations between several countries which soon came to be called "BRICs".
Of all the Republican and Democrat candidates in the 2016 US presidential race, almost each and every of them claims that he or she will fight for Main Street not Wall Street, despite the fact that big businesses often finance most of the campaigns.
The continuing turbulence in the global financial markets is, to some extent, reminiscent of the sentiments during the financial crisis seven years ago. But it would still be premature to predict the recurrence of a major global crisis.
At a recent conference on work related to the Tibet autonomous region and areas populated by Tibetans, President Xi Jinping urged participants and the whole nation to cultivate an awareness of Tibet-related work as it is relevant to the whole nation.
ZOU PING, former vice-mayor of Nanchong in Southwest China's Sichuan province, was recently sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption and other crimes.
A TRUCK CARRYING 20 TONS OF APPLES on Monday rolled over on an expressway near Biyang in Central China's Henan province, and a host of local residents plundered the "windfall" until the police showed up and forced them to leave. Three of the residents involved were later detained. Comments:
THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT in Bazhong, Sichuan province in Southwest China, has reportedly issued an order to hunt and kill all stray dogs, as well as large and ferocious dogs that have not been vaccinated. This has triggered a heated online debate. Comments:
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