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Finance talks 'signal thaw with Japan'

The finance ministers of China and Japan will meet in Beijing on Saturday to discuss a range of economic issues, the first such dialogue in more than three years.

Securities firms notch up record gains

Securities firms in China have seen their profit skyrocket amid the stock market boom with record-breaking turnover.

Market regulator fights talent flight into private sector

While China's securities regulator is pushing market-driven reforms to reduce administrative intervention in the capital market, an unexpected side effect of that effort is that the once-powerful and attractive regulatory jobs seem to be losing appeal.

Banks told to step up teller-fraud procedures

The China Banking Regulatory Commission on Friday ordered banks to improve their internal controls and prevent "operational risks" at tellers' windows.

Aquino shows a lack of sense or sensibility

Philippine President Benigno Aquino's wild talk likening China to Nazi Germany is not helping his country's recent claims in the South China Sea. As a politician, his badmouthing will only further tarnish his own credibility and disgrace his country.

Higher value labor dividend

There is an increasingly prevalent viewpoint that China's labor dividend that has bolstered its economic takeoff over the past decades will come to an end as the country's labor costs rise. This is an obsolete concept given that it equates labor with cheap labor instead of creative labor.

Trendy IP programs have to meet audiences' demands

Maopian, a leading domestic intellectual property program agency, recently announced plans to adopt several online literature pieces in films, games and animations, and build an amusement park based on a novel about stealing relics from ancient graves. Will IP programs help make the film industry more creative, or are they just speculative concepts? Comments:

Freedom of speech should not mean vulgarity

On Tuesday, People's Daily posted a report on its website about the use of vulgar online language, listing and analyzing a number of such expressions.

Dual authorship of academic paper raises controversy

A recent online exposure that some academic papers were reportedly "co-written" by an 18-year-old high school student and her mother in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, has sparked a controversy.

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