Recent weeks have seen many people accuse Shi Yongxin, the abbot of Shaolin Temple, of many wrongdoings, from corruption to adultery. His case shows religion-related reports are becoming increasingly eye-catching.
After the European Union and its fifth-largest trading partner Vietnam announced last week that they had agreed in principle to lift most tariffs on goods in the coming years, China and the EU should seriously think about removing their customs barriers to boost the combined economies of roughly 2 billion consumers.
Shaolin Temple and its presiding monk Yongxin have never been in such a severe credibility crisis. Yongxin has been accused of abusing his position by keeping a mistress and having fathered a child, as well as misappropriating money accumulated through the temple's various business activities.
A recent statistical bulletin published by the Ministry of Education shows there were 209,900 kindergartens nationwide in 2014, an increase of 11,300 on the previous year, and the gross rate of enrollment among preschool children reached 70.5 percent, an increase of three percentage points.
According to some media reports, the State Administration of Taxation issued a notice to its provincial and city bureaus on July 28 - not confirmed or published by the administration on its website till Sunday - saying WeChat, Alipay or Weibo "red envelopes", digital "gift" money, will be taxed if they are transferred by enterprises to individual employees. Digital "red envelopes" transferred between individuals, however, will not be taxed. Comments:
The Democratic People's Republic of Koreawill reportedly set its clocks back by 30 minutes on Aug 15 to create a new "Pyongyang time", according to the country's state news agency Korea Central News Agency on Friday.
Following the central government's repeated calls to guarantee workers' right to paid leave, some local governments are encouraging employees to take a break in an almost compulsory manner.
Have China-Japan relations improved after President Xi Jinping met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last year? The ups and downs in Sino-Japanese relations since that fateful meeting are the result of the fickleness of Abe, who is a conservative.
To focus on its role as China's capital and shift some non-capital functions from the city center, Beijing has decided to make its Tongzhou district a "subsidiary administrative center".
A recent BBC documentary, Are Our Kids Tough Enough? Chinese School which filmed an experiment in which five Chinese teachers taught 50 students according to Chinese-style education norms at a school in the United Kingdom, has sparked a heated online debate on whether Chinese or Western methods are better.
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