On May 29, Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), will begin a 12-day trip to the United States. The DPP candidate for Taiwan's 2016 leadership elections will meet with US government officials, lawmakers, scholars and others with an interest in East Asian affairs.
A video recently released by an extremist group allied to the Taliban shows a Chinese national resembling Hong Xudong, who was adducted by militants from the northwestern region of Pakistan in May 2014, seeking the Chinese government's help to get him released. The militants, however, have not cited an exact amount as ransom.
A fire that engulfed a privately run nursing home for the elderly in Central China's Henan province on Monday night, killing 38 people and injuring six others, two of whom are in a critical condition, has once again revealed the poor care-providing system for senior people in many parts of the country, especially in its impoverished rural areas.
Concerns over China-US relations' future heightened last week after a US spy plane flew over some of China's islands and reefs in the South China Sea. While the international community is anxious to know China's response to the apparent US provocation, the fact is, Washington's move has made Beijing's case for reclamation and construction work in the South China Sea much stronger.
China's new defense strategy white paper is the country's latest effort to improve its military transparency, and demonstrates its sincerity in sharing its new perceptions on security, national defense and military strategy with the rest of the world.
In a recent plan for China's manufacturing, the Chinese government has mapped out a series of measures to boost the sector's development up to 2025, including efforts to promote integration of informationalization and industrialization, advance intelligent manufacturing and create an "Internet plus" environment.
The China National Tourism Administration recently published a list of "tourist sites with trustable prices" on its website. The list, which contains all 1,801 applicant tourist sites, has been widely criticized for lack of transparency as well as being contrary to the general feeling of tourists. Comments:
Song Jianguo, the former traffic police chief of Beijing, went on trial on Monday for suspected corruption. Among other charges, he is accused of accepting bribes for providing "Jing A" plates for automobiles, which receive privileges as they are mostly used by government agencies. Comments:
After claiming in a micro blog that his colleague He Jiong, a famous television host, was on the payroll of Beijing Foreign Studies University but not teaching a lesson, Qiao Mu, an associate professor at the university has been verbally abused and harassed by netizens who claim to be "fans" of the TV host.
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