It is reported that a rural credit cooperative union in Henan province, Central China, has stipulated that its female employees have to report their pregnancy plans and apply and wait for their turn to give birth. If they fail to carry out the plan and affect the work schedule, they have to pay a fine of 1,000 yuan ($160). Comments:
On June 30, the Chinese government issued its Intended Nationally Determined Contribution, announcing its actions to fight against and adapt to climate change in the post-2020 period.
What we are witnessing in Greece and beyond, in Europe, is an absurd but not entirely unexpected spectacle. During the past couple of decades since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the Soviet Union, there has never been such a powerful agglomeration of political risk. Fear reigns supreme not just among investors.
On June 26, when the American and Chinese women's teams faced each other in the semi-finals in the Football World Cup, it brought back memories of the last time they faced each other in the World Cup: the 1999 final in the United States.
Sunday's "No" result in the Greek referendum on the terms of an international bailout brings a Greek exit from the euro a step closer, whether Alexis Tsipras, the youngest prime minister in Greek history since 1865, wants it or not.
The central government has made a series of new decisions to help arrest the recent speculative sell-off in domestic stock exchanges.
Chinese officials will be held responsible over their lifetime for the damage caused to environment during their terms in office, a central leading group in charge of the country's overall reforms said at a recent meeting.
A grand nine-story office building under construction in Jianshi county in East China's Hubei province, has provoked an online uproar, because it was reportedly designed to accommodate about 40 local officials at the cost of over 23 million yuan ($3.7 million). Many more over-sized office buildings have also been found in the nationally designated poor county. Comments:
In an official statement on Tuesday, Nanchang University in East China's Jiangxi province declared "Nanda" to be its Chinese abbreviated name, which has been used by Nanjing University in East China's Jiangsu province. The Ministry of Education official said the universities should solve the disputes on their own. Comments:
Japan's recent bid to have 23 coal mines, shipyards and other industrial zones of the Meiji Reform period in the 1860s recognized as world heritage sites, was postponed in the ongoing meeting of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Germany, due to the Republic of Korea and China opposing the bid because Japan insisted on excluding acknowledgment of the labor from China, the Korean Peninsula and other Asian countries that were forced to work at some of the sites. Comments:
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