Republic of Korea President Park Geun-hye will pay a three-day visit to China from Sept 2 to attend the celebrations in Beijing to mark the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. On Sept 4, she is scheduled to visit Shanghai to re-open the office of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, which was set up by some Korean independence fighters in 1919, nine years after Japan occupied the Korean Peninsula.
The three-episode BBC documentary Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School, which delved on the cultural conflicts between British students and Chinese teachers, has concluded.
Two steps forward one step back, that's what US President Barack Obama is likely to say if asked how he could promise Washington's grandest plan to fight climate change - the "historic" Climate Action Plan announced on Aug 3 - and give the green light to Shell for oil exploratory drilling in the Arctic Ocean two weeks later.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel laid a wreath at the grave of the Unknown Soldier, close to the Kremlin on May 10. Along with other Western leaders, she skipped the military parade in Red Square marking the 70th anniversary of victory over Nazi Germany in protest over Russia's annexation of the Crimean peninsula and its role in eastern Ukraine.
Japan sees China's military parade on Sept 3 to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the victory in the anti-fascist war as an irritation. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's statement on Aug 14 marking the end of World War II, which was devoid of any sincere remorse for Japan's war crimes, made the victimized people in Asian countries alert.
Many organizations, companies and celebrities have generously donated to help the victims of last week's explosions in Tianjin. But reports of blackmailing tactics or force being used to get donations have shocked people.
The Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region has many advantages as a trade and commerce corridor. It occupies a central position in Eurasia, borders eight countries, boasts of 29 land customs ports, and has the Eurasian Land Bridge railway running through it. Plus, being a core zone of China's "Belt and Road Initiative", it is now on the frontline of the country's reform and opening-up, serving as a bridge between China and the West.
There's a political revolution going on in Britain that seems to have crept up on an unsuspecting British population. It has now become pretty certain that the comfortable days of this country's democracy being dominated by two political parties are gone; the Labour Party, led by Ed Miliband, was so sure of victory in the general election of May this year that vans were readied to move Miliband and his family into 10 Downing Street.
The attendance of Republic of Korea President Park Geun-hye at China's celebrations to mark the 70th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, which was confirmed on Thursday, sends the message that Beijing and Seoul stand on the same ground when it comes to historical issues.
At a news conference on Wednesday, the mayor and acting Party chief of Tianjin municipality, Huang Xingguo, admitted his "inescapable responsibility" for the deadly explosions that claimed the lives of more than 100 people and injured hundreds more.
CHINA AND RUSSIA STARTED their joint naval drills on Thursday in the Peter the Great Gulf and other areas off the Russian coast.
THE FORMER DIRECTOR of a sub-district land acquisition and resettlement office in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, has reportedly appealed against his sentence on charges of corruption and bribery. He attributed his crimes to his job and position, as they "demanded" he take bribes to get things done. Comments:
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