The opposition "pan-democracy" camp vetoed the Hong Kong Special Administration Region government's universal suffrage plan for the 2017 chief executive's election on June 18, and thus halted the five-step constitutional reform at the third stage and made it very difficult for the SAR government to restart the reform all over again.
The Philippines held two military drills, one with the United States and the other with Japan, this week in the South China Sea, where it has several maritime disputes with China.
The development of manufacturing industry has been a key contributor to China's economic transformation. This will be so in China's next stages of development too.
The US State Department in Foggy Bottom in Washington looked quite different from the rest of the year early this week when the 7th China-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue and 6th China-US High-Level Consultation on People-to-People Exchange were held there.
It is unbelievable but true: 800 tons of smuggled frozen meat that customs officers uncovered had been kept in storage for as long as 40 years.
The Sino-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue, whose seventh round was concluded in Washington on Wednesday, has long been viewed as one of the most important mechanisms for the two countries to conduct regular communication, address problems in their relations and reach consensus.
At least 70 million people are still living in "extreme poverty" in China, according to official data.
The annual litchi and dog meat festival, a commercial activity on the day of summer solstice promoted by local restaurants in Yulin in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, met tremendous opposition from the animal rights activists, who claim eating dog meat is a bad custom and urge the local authority to ban the festival, which was started in the 1990s. The local government, however, says it has no legal foundation to interfere with the commercial activity. Comments:
Two people died and one person was injured in a traffic accident in Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu province on Saturday, when a 35-year-old BMW driver tried to jump a red light at an intersection, smashing into a Mazda then a taxi.
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