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Paid leave is a right, not an extra benefit

[2015-08-05 07:45]

THE GOVERNMENT has already emphasized five times this year, workers have the right to paid leave. Comments:

Xi's tenet of comprehensive governance

[2015-08-05 07:45]

President Xi Jinping will pay a state visit to Washington at a time when most China watchers in the United States have become pessimistic about Sino-US relations.

Taxing tobacco to reduce expenditures on illnesses

[2015-08-05 07:45]

Over the last 10 years, impressive gains have been made in the battle against the tobacco epidemic. Spurred by the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, which came into force in 2005, most countries have launched comprehensive tobacco-control programs. But much more remains to be done. If the tobacco epidemic is not addressed, it will, according to WHO estimates, kill 1 billion people over the course of this century.

Will Paris yield a decisive climate deal?

[2015-08-05 07:45]

The UN climate change conference in Paris in December is expected by many to deliver a decisive plan to curb global warming, more precisely to prevent global temperatures from rising 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above the pre-industrial levels. Keeping temperatures below that level is what climate scientists have been fighting for since the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where the world vowed to avoid undefined "dangerous" human interference with the climate system.

Countries should work together for the good of Africa

[2015-08-05 07:45]

In his attention-grabbing visit to Africa last week, US President Barack Obama made misleading remarks about China's cooperation with Africa, which has created the impression that the United States sees China as a rival, rather than a cooperative partner, in the African continent.

Reform to relieve people of worries about medical bills

[2015-08-04 07:41]

The national plan to extend medical insurance to cover all critical illnesses for urban and rural residents who are part of the basic urban medical insurance and rural cooperative medical program will hopefully prevent households from going bankrupt because of the high costs of treatment for serious diseases.