THE STANDING COMMITTEE of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, is deliberating on closing a loophole in the law to protect young girls from sexual predators after an increasing number of Chinese law experts called for the charge of "prostitution with underage girls" to be eliminated. If the measure is approved, any sex with girls under 14, regardless of their consent, would be considered rape, for which the penalties are harsher. Comments:
A FEMALE PATIENT who was injured when the hospital bed she was being examined on collapsed has taken the hospital to court, claiming compensation of 140,000 yuan ($21,800). The hospital says the bed collapsed because "she was overweight". Comments:
China will mark the 70th anniversary of the victories in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45) and the world anti-fascist war with a parade in Beijing's Tian'anmen Square on Sept 3. It remains to be seen how this parade will be viewed by the international community, whether they will see it differently to a similar parade in Moscow's Red Square, which was attended by President Xi Jinping.
China's decision to hold a military parade on Sept 3 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II is causing the United States a headache. But the Barack Obama administration needs to show courage to send a high-level official delegation to attend the event even at the risk of offending Japan. More importantly, the US should remind itself of its historical role in healing the wartime animosity between China and Japan at a time when relations between them are strained.
The ongoing second phase of the China-Russia annual joint naval exercise in the Peter the Great Gulf, waters off the Clerk Cape and the Sea of Japan has, as usual, triggered speculation that the two neighbors are aiming to form a military alliance, which is the worst form of exaggeration of China-Russia military relations.
Should special amnesty be granted to some convicts to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression (1937-45)?
TAIWAN'S FORMER LEADER Lee Teng-hui again sought to whitewash Japan's colonization of Taiwan on Sunday, by claiming that the island never "fought" Japanese aggression because it was one nation with Japan.
Have all the efforts Chinese policymakers made to save the once-10-trillion-dollar domestic stock market from falling over the cliff since early July come to nothing with the country's benchmark Shanghai Composite index ending with the sharpest fall since early 2007 on Monday?
CHINESE AUTHOR LIU CIXIN became the first Asian to win the Hugo Award for Best Novel, when his novel The Three-Body Problem received this year's award for best science fiction or fantasy achievement. Comments:
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