The Democratic People's Republic of Koreawill reportedly set its clocks back by 30 minutes on Aug 15 to create a new "Pyongyang time", according to the country's state news agency Korea Central News Agency on Friday.
Following the central government's repeated calls to guarantee workers' right to paid leave, some local governments are encouraging employees to take a break in an almost compulsory manner.
Have China-Japan relations improved after President Xi Jinping met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last year? The ups and downs in Sino-Japanese relations since that fateful meeting are the result of the fickleness of Abe, who is a conservative.
To focus on its role as China's capital and shift some non-capital functions from the city center, Beijing has decided to make its Tongzhou district a "subsidiary administrative center".
A recent BBC documentary, Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School which filmed an experiment in which five Chinese teachers taught 50 students according to Chinese-style education norms at a school in the United Kingdom, has sparked a heated online debate on whether Chinese or Western methods are better.
The Swiss-based International Peace Bureau nominated the Japan Confederation of A-and H-Bomb Sufferers, or Hidankyo, for the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, the third time the survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have been nominated.
China's foreign exchange reserves slipped to a two-year low by the end of July, the People's Bank of China, the central bank, said on Friday, implying more capital outflows amid expectations of a fragile economic rebound and a stronger dollar.
China's securities regulator said on Friday that maintaining stock market stability and restoring investor confidence are still its top priorities, despite the recent turbulence which dampened market sentiment and trading volume.
It seems that people may need to carefully select the friends they make online as Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd is about to launch a consumer credit rating service based on an individual's online social networks.
After adding more than $10,000 for a car license plate in Shanghai onto the cost of maintenance, parking and insurance, Debby Yin decided to rent.
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