A local office of the Beijing municipal bureau for industry and commerce has been in the news these days because it is accused of letting employees of the e-retail giant Jingdong work with officials in their office building.
A WAREHOUSE ILLEGALLY STORING CHEMICALS in Beichen district of Tianjin municipality, reportedly caught fire and exploded on Monday night, just two months after the deadly blasts in the city, which killed 173 people, including 104 firefighters. Comments:
THE GUANGZHOU AUTHORITIES in South China's Guangdong province have retained the controversial rule of awarding 10 percent of the worth of unclaimed items to the finders. Comments:
HUAZHONG AGRICULTURAL University has recorded the details of its students' spending on lunch and dinner during the past 15 days. The 10 percent who spent the most on their meals have been disqualified from receiving the subsidies granted to disadvantaged students. Comments:
The establishment of four pilot free trade zones, which have paved way for China to further open up in an innovative way, is one of the significant achievements made during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15).
The Ministry of Transport released draft rules on the management of online car-hailing services on Saturday.
By 2050 there will be about one billion extra mouths to feed in Asia, as its population grows. We might be able to produce enough food; but how much of it will be safe to eat?
This year's Nobel Prize for economics has gone to a pioneering poverty expert. That arguably represents both high praise and a push for the global efforts to eliminate extreme poverty, a goal that the winner isn't "blindly optimistic" about.
For China to realize its goal of building a better-off society by 2020, lifting the country's 70 million poor residents out of abject poverty is a target that must be met. Officials from the office in charge of the work, which is under the State Council, the country's Cabinet, expressed their optimism on Monday the task will be fulfilled on time.
That a former official has filed a case against the local government for which he worked, alleging it owes him more than 1 million yuan ($157,800) in commission for the projects he introduced, should prompt nationwide reflection on the policies used to attract outside investment, which most of the time involve the promise of tempting commissions.
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