According to a recent report from the Ministry of Finance, the national revenue for May was 1.44 trillion yuan ($230 billion), 3.2 percent lower than last month. The declining revenue casts heavy pressure on economic growth, while trillions of yuan lie "asleep" in the national coffers without being used. Comments:
Four migrant workers were detained for 10 to 15 days by the police in Pingdingshan, Cental China's Henan province, in May for "disturbing the public order".
To help its students overcome their addiction to computer games, the School of Highway Science Research at Chang'an University in Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province in Northwest China, reportedly forced them to delete games from their computers, threatening to confiscate them otherwise. Many students complained that the school was violating their rights because the computers were personal items. Comments:
As the tragic story of the four children who died in Bijie, Southwest China's Guizhou province, last week unfolds in the media, it is clear that all of us need to do more to help the millions of children living in rural areas, especially those left behind by their parents in their search for better-paying jobs in cities.
'Pocket it first!", the supporters' slogan for the current electoral reform package, always makes me think of pocket money. In my early teenage years I used to get the princely sum of 25 pence (about HK$3) to spend every week as I pleased.
It is widely believed that zongzi, or rice dumpling, is the traditional symbol that has remained attached with the Dragon Boat Festival.
The US decision to send more troops to Iraq to help fight the Islamic State is not a strategic but a tactical shift, which is not expected to alter the battle against the terrorist group.
On Monday morning, the partial collapse of a residential building, built two decades ago, led to four deaths in the city of Zunyi in Southwest China's Guizhou province. It is the second incident of its kind in the city and the fifth nationwide within a month; a total of 22 people were killed in these collapses.
Germany has offered the world convincing evidence in both word and deed that it has learnt the lessons of its past.
A farmer in Qinghe county in North China's Hebei province was cheated out of 7.8 million yuan ($1.3 million) by a wool buyer in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, in 2003.
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