News that the Internet novel-based drama Nirvana in Fire was purchased by a Korean TV station and will be broadcast on Tuesday has cheered its fans.
According to the United Nations Refugee Agency, among the over 19.5 million refugees across the globe by the end of 2014, the majority were from the Middle East, where at least 8.9 million have fled their war-torn homelands.
China's enthusiasm to make mass entrepreneurship and innovation a new engine for economic growth is hardly surprising given the world's second-largest economy is undergoing painful transformation.
China is justified in raising concerns over Japan's excessive accumulation of sensitive nuclear materials and its imbalance in the supply and demand of nuclear materials. And the international community has good reason to ask how the island country is going to use its huge stockpile of plutonium.
Due to an increasing number of media reports about the resignation of civil servants, including some high-level ones, and the authorities' intensified efforts to make their incomes transparent, it has been suggested that being a public servant, which was once viewed as an "iron rice bowl", is now being looked at more rationally by job seekers.
UNITED STATES PRESIDENT Barack Obama has halted the withdrawal of US military forces from Afghanistan, announcing on Oct 15 that a 9,800-strong force will remain in the country after 2016 as the Afghan forces are not ready to stand alone. Comments:
CHONGYANG FESTIVAL, a day for senior citzens in the country, was celebrated on Wednesday. Suzhou Intermediate People's Court in Jiangsu province, East China, issued a new judicial document on protecting senior citizens' legal rights, in which it said those failing to care for their parents' emotional needs might lose some of their inheritance. Comments:
A NEW REGULATION on noise pollution control issued by the local government in Lijiang, Southwest China's Yunnan province, which forbids music being played during daytime in the old town and after 11:30 pm in the bar street, has triggered wide controversy and criticism. Comments:
Mobilizing finance for infrastructure in Asia is a critical need. In 2009, the Asia Development Bank estimated that Asian countries would require approximately $8 trillion in infrastructure investment from 2010 to 2020 if they are to maintain current levels of economic growth, but warned that there would only be limited funding for this available.
Babysitting has become a divisive issue for some families in China, with a growing number of reports on family disputes when young couples refuse to pay their parents for looking after their children.
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