Days after Premier Li Keqiang questioned the reasonability of the government-led qualification authentication for manicurists, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security recently brought to a halt the official certification for the trivial profession.
A case in Hengyang, Central China's Hunan province, has attracted public attention because the suspects used women to seduce officials and then took sex videos to blackmail them. Fifty-five local officials from four provinces are involved in the scandal, and most of them belong to the section level, the lowest in the bureaucratic order. Comments:
An official of the Institute of Agricultural Sciences in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, reportedly burned the evidence proving the existence of a private fund owned by an affiliated company after he was informed beforehand about audit. He and some of his colleagues involved in the act have been expelled from the Party, the local discipline inspection authorities said. Comments:
The State Administration of Industry and Commerce has said 10 classic cases of suspected violation of the "strictest ever" Advertisement Law, that took effect from September, have come to light and some of them involve celebrities promoting dubious products. Comments:
President Xi Jinping has just completed a state visit to the United States, accomplishing much of his mission: Sino-US mutual reassurance on maintaining the status quo in the Asia-Pacific region and mutual recommitment to "a new model of major-country relationship".
With the bursting of the Chinese stock market bubble in July and the slight but unexpected depreciation of the renminbi, by about 4 percent in August, the world markets have panicked and doomsayers are coming out in droves to predict the imminent collapse of the Chinese economy.
A weird but interesting trend has spread across China's social network sites: selfies of people with grass "growing" out of their heads. In fact, it's not rare to see people with hairpins with plastic grass on their heads on the streets. Some celebrities, too, have joined the trend.
The annexes of two military agreements, one on "notification of military crisis" and the other on "encounters in the air", were among the 49 outcomes of President Xi Jinping's state visit to the United States. The documents are the fruits of the two countries' continuous efforts to build a healthy military-to-military relationship and deepen strategic mutual trust.
The series of meetings at the UN Headquarters from Sept 25 to 28 to mark the 70th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations will have a huge impact on international relations, the future role of the world body and the direction of global cooperation.
Rather than how much funds it will provide, China's leading role in the global fight against poverty should be defined in terms of how many hands-on experience it can pass on to other developing countries to help them meet their development challenges and alleviate poverty in the process.
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