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.
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:
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.
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.
Rescue teams continue using all measures possible to rescue anyone still alive on the Eastern Star, the cruise ship carrying 456 people that capsized in Yangtze River on Monday evening. News update show 14 people have been saved and the whole nation prays the number will miraculously rise.
As a young boy growing up in the city of Detroit, Michigan, in the 1950s, we were taught that police were our friends. Their shiny badges seemed to confirm this with the Latin motto Tuebor - I will defend.
Although there have never been any set criteria to define the boundary between art and pornography, art depicting the human form in the name of "beauty" should, in the eyes of most people, at least not excessively offend or challenge the ethical and moral bottom line of society.
The US Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to end the unwarranted bulk collection of millions of US citizens' phone records.
FIFA needs an overhaul, Sepp Blatter said in his resignation speech on Tuesday, just four days after his reelection as president of the world football governing body. The scandals that have haunted FIFA during his tenure have finally come home to roost with the controversial detention of six of its high-level officials last week.
The most serious distortion of the current taxi sector regulations lies in monopolistic operation by taxi companies resulting from the control on the number of cabs and a strict market access, Zhang Guohua, director of an institute of urban traffic research affiliated to the National Development and Reform Commission, the top economic planner, pointed out in a recent signed article.
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