A CONFERENCE VENUE run by China Tobacco Corporation in Beijing recently prevented law-enforcement officials from the capital's public health supervision bureau from entering the premises. This is the first case of its kind since Beijing implemented a strict tobacco-control law on June 1. Comments:
A POLICE STATION IN LOUDI, Central China's Hunan province, reportedly rebuked the local civil affairs bureau on Wednesday for demanding that a 68-year-old resident obtain a redundant police certificate when she applied for a new senior citizen pass.
THE BBC DOCUMENTARY Are Our Kids Tough Enough, which filmed an experiment in which five Chinese teachers taught 50 children at a school in the United Kingdom with the teaching methods used in China, has sparked heated debate about whether Chinese or Western teaching methods are better. Comments:
Some people often ask what China wants from the world, what it brings to the world and whether it will challenge the US-dominated word order. For a country that was issuing food coupons as late as 1993, such questions are too early.
For decades, illegal immigration has been testing the emotion of Britons, whether it was through the flood of Vietnamese boat people heading for the then UK-controlled territory of Hong Kong, the plight of illegal Chinese immigrants picking cockles in northwest England, or the thousands of people risking all in Calais to get to Britain.
Two micro blogs posted by popular writer Han Han questioning the country's tight regulation on egg-freezing services for unmarried women have sparked an online uproar.
Just a few hours after US President Barack Obama announced his ambitious new plan on Monday to limit carbon emissions from power plants to combat global warming, the Busboys & Poets restaurant-cum-bookstore in Washington drew a larger crowd than the White House East Room. There, Naomi Klein, a Canadian journalist and social activist, praised Obama's action, but she said it was one step in the right direction along with five in the wrong.
China and the United States held their second consultation on anti-terrorism issues on Tuesday in Beijing. The vice-ministerial-level meeting, which is a follow-up step to carry out the agreements both sides reached during this year's strategic and economic dialogues in June, signals enhanced cooperation between the two countries in the war against terror.
The technical concern that a recent report by the International Monetary Fund expressed over possible financial market disruption resulting from the inclusion of the yuan in its Special Drawing Rights basket is understandable.
AT THE ONGOING 48TH Foreign Ministers' Meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Kuala Lumpur, Philippine Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario said his country would promote a proposal which the United States made earlier for all claimants to halt reclamation, construction and any aggressive actions that could heighten tensions in the South China Sea. Comments:
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