Internet police in 50 Chinese localities, including Beijing and Shanghai, launched a campaign to clean up popular social networking platforms such as Sina Weibo and WeChat starting Monday, in a bid to further curb cyber crimes. Their job includes detecting and removing illegal and harmful contents on the Internet, especially those harmful to children and women. Comments:
For a quarter of a century, China's economic crash theory has been a lucrative cottage industry in the West. But there is a reason why certain times favor the doomsayers.
For some political scientists, "democracy" means the right to vote in elections held every four, five years or six years. Perhaps countries such as Sweden and Switzerland practice a good form of democracy. But in the world's two largest democracies, the United States and India, contesting an election is a highly expensive affair. In a majority of cases, a candidate has to spend millions of dollars to have any chance of success.
The recent joint report by UBS and PricewaterhouseCoopers says China has about 200 billionaires, almost one-third the number in the United States, while a report by China Merchants Bank and Bain shows the number of people with assets of more than 10 million yuan ($1.61 million) crossed 1 million at the end of 2014. And according to a National Health and Family Planning Commission survey, the income of China's top 20 percent high-income families is 19 times that of the lowest 20 percent low-income families.
Shanghai 2010 World Expo was a huge success. Now, Milan hosts a World Expo which is dazzling, not least because of its theme of how to feed 9 billion people of our planet by 2050.
The remarks by US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter about South China Sea, made at the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore on Saturday, were counterproductive to managing the disputes and maintaining stability in the waters.
Speaking at a four-hour meeting with more than 50 Hong Kong lawmakers on Sunday, Wang Guangya, director of the State Council's Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office, urged them to exercise their rights prudently and act responsibly, and not to make a "regretful decision" that will go down in history when voting on the constitutional reform package that will shape the city's future.
"Under no ceiling may one smoke." The Beijing municipal tobacco control regulation, which has been described as the country's "strictest in history", entered into effect on Monday, prohibiting smoking in indoor public venues and offices, as well as outdoors places where minors gather, such as kindergartens or primary schools. But the question remains, will the regulation be truly effective? Comments:
On the 110th anniversary of its founding, Shanghai-based Fudan University released their new official publicity video To My Light, yet it was widely seen as being derivative of Explorer, a publicity video released by the University of Tokyo in 2014. Teng Yudong, the producer, said they used Explorer as "a main reference", while Fudan University later responded it suspects plagiarism and they are investigating. Comments:
Even though Tsinghua University has denied that she is one of its professors, Wang Jing, who claims to be a faculty member, has still aroused hot discussions among domestic media with her recent comment that only those with a high IQ can enter this top university. Comments:
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