One after another domestic airline has started charging extra fees (up to 100 yuan or $15.70) for passengers that decide to choose their preferred seats. Comments:
Editor's Note: The 2015 Beijing Forum on Human Rights held on Wednesday and Thursday was attended by many experts and scholars from home and abroad, who elucidate the many aspects of human rights. Following are some of their views:
Not surprisingly, the top anti-corruption watchdog has once again acted to forestall possible malpractices involving the use of public money to buy moon cakes and other gifts during the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays as part of its ongoing campaign against extravagance and corruption.
Foreign Minister Wang Yi's speech in Beijing on Wednesday has provided a clear vision of China-US relations ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping's state visit to the US next week. It is a vision of how the world's two largest economies can work together to build a better future not just for the two nations, but also the whole world.
The upper house of Japan's parliament has not yet made a decision on Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's controversial security bills on Wednesday. Once written into law, the controversial "war bills" could open a Pandora's box and push the island country away from its pacifist Constitution and toward a militaristic path.
Hangzhou's plan to refund nearly 100 million yuan ($15.73 million) to taxi drivers is a welcome move to embrace Internet-based advanced technology that could help make this beautiful city in East China's Zhejiang province not only smart but also economically competitive. This is an example other local governments will do good to follow.
Two cartoons in French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo have started a war of words on the Internet, because some think they make fun of Aylan Kurdi, the 3-year-old Syrian refugee who drowned in the sea while trying to reach the Greek island of Kos with his family.
Medium and low-priced moon cakes in simple packaging, which were rare in the market for years, are back and among the most popular products in the market in the run-up to Mid-Autumn Festival. Comments:
One day after Xiang Jie, a rich man from Yuanling, Hunan province, alleged in an open letter on Sept 12 that local mayor Gong Lei had sought hundreds of millions of yuan from him as bribe, the local government denied the allegation and said Xiang is head of a local mafia gang. The local authorities even issued an order to arrest him. Comments:
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