Chinese movies created two box-office records on the weekend, as Monkey King: Hero is Back made 617 million yuan ($99.3 million) nationwide by Saturday and Monster Hunt 1.32 billion yuan by Sunday, just days after their release.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation on Thursday detailed a sharp rise in economic espionage cases aimed at US companies, and accused the Chinese government of sponsoring the majority of them. In hopes of "raising awareness of the growing economic espionage threat", the bureau has produced a video titled The Company Man: Protecting America's Secrets, which depicts "a real-life case of Chinese espionage. Comments:
The government of Xunyang county in Northwest China's Shaanxi province has announced it will record the names of the "repeat" petitioners in the county annals. It said the aim is not to dissuade normal petitioners, but to let people condemn trouble-makers. Comments:
The 10 highest scorers among the students from seven provinces who sat this year's national college entrance exams were invited to attend a ceremony in Jincheng in North China's Shanxi province on the weekend. An actor playing the "Emperor Kangxi", the fourth emperor of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), "knighted" each of the students and gave each 10,000 yuan ($1,615) and a copy of Kangxi Dictionary. Comments:
President Xi Jinping's scheduled visit to the United States in September is likely to create new opportunities for not only consolidating the "new type of major-power relationship" between Beijing and Washington, but also China's public diplomacy vis-a-vis the US.
About 2.1 billion people, or almost 30 percent of the world's population, are regarded as overweight (defined as a body mass index, or BMI, of 25 or higher) - double the number in 1980, and more than 2.5 times the number of people who are chronically hungry.
The vaccination of babies against hepatitis B over the last quarter of a century has been one of China's greatest public health success stories.
A long-awaited apology came from Japan, but not from the government.
Seventy years ago, when the United States, Great Britain and China released the Potsdam Declaration on 26 July 1945 ordering the unconditional surrender of Japan, the content of the document was not taken seriously enough in Japan.
Fifteen years ago, the United Nations published its historical Millennium Declaration, which mapped out the Millennium Development Goals.
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