GERMANY'S FEDERAL MOTOR VEHICLE office has reportedly urged Volkswagen to set a timeline before Oct 7 for the upgrade of its diesel cars to meet the national pollution standards. Volkswagen sparked global outrage last week when it admitted cheating on pollution by installing software in 11 million diesel cars that allowed them to pass emissions tests in countries like the United States. Comments:
TIANJIN UNIVERSITY has offered a 2-hour-16-class "dating" course for "two credits" to first-year college students in 2015, which includes dating theory and practical skills. This has triggered a heated online debate. Comments:
A MAN in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, expressed anger, instead of happiness, on receiving a gift by mail from his daughter for Mid-Autumn Festival. "Why not visit me instead?" he is reported to have said. Comments:
The resounding endorsement by global leaders on Sept 27 in New York of the groundbreaking and transformational 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, more than two years in the making, sparks new hope and optimism for multilateralism.
A key decision in making US-led and China-led institutions complementary rests with the US Congress. Without the Congress ratifying the 2010 International Monetary Fund governance reforms to give greater voice to emerging markets, that will not happen. And as this is unlikely to happen any time soon, we perhaps need to start thinking of a "New Bretton Woods".
More Chinese tourists are expected to travel abroad during the National Day golden week holiday. This is good news, except that the media have been reporting one incident after another of the uncivil behaviors of some Chinese tourists overseas. Some media outlets have even termed their behaviors, such as jumping queues, talking aloud and spitting in public, as rude.
American politicians are in the habit of pressuring their European counterparts to follow their line in setting foreign agenda. Some American scholars do the same, especially when the European Union prepares to make important decisions related to China. Among them is Robert Scott, director of trade and manufacturing policy research at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. He has warned the EU that granting market economy status to China (in December 2016, as scheduled) would increase imports from China by 25 to 50 percent, putting at least 1,745,400 to 3,490,900 EU jobs at risk.
It does not matter precisely how their ties are rhetorically framed - "new type of major-country relationship" or otherwise. China and the United States need a clear sense of direction as their relations approach a critical crossroad, and, as the latest talk about "frenemy-ship" indicates, could go either way.
President Xi Jinping's speech at the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit at the UN Headquarters on Saturday embodies China's latest contribution to South-South cooperation and global development.
WANG YONGJIN AND WEI WU, directors of two local State-run hospitals in Changzhi, Shanxi province, were recently detained and investigated for bribery. Reports say they are husband and wife, and the woman's father is the former Party chief of the city who managed to get all his three sons-in-law high bureaucratic posts. This has raised questions about how to stop some families from dominating local politics, which breeds corruption. Comments:
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