The first US-ASEAN meeting was hosted by US President Barack Obama at Sunnylands Rancho Mirage in California on Monday and Tuesday, the same venue where US President Barack Obama had his first informal meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013.
The just concluded meeting between leaders from the United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations at Sunnylands Rancho Mirage, California, the first for both sides, produced several agreements on economic cooperation, as well as traditional and nontraditional security coordination.
First, a woman from Shanghai caused an uproar after she posted online about her experience of accompanying her boyfriend to his hometown in a poor village in Central China's Jiangxi province during the Spring Festival.
US President John F. Kennedy was ambitious and idealistic in his "moon speech" on Sept 12, 1962, saying "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
The first ever US-ASEAN Summit hosted by the United States, which US President Barack Obama called "landmark", did not bear the fruit some had coveted.
In spite of seasonal factors such as the timing of the Chinese New Year, which may have dragged some lending forward, the stronger-than-expected growth in loans in China has considerably boosted confidence in the growth prospects for the world's second-largest economy.
ACCORDING TO REPORTS, several provinces plan to adjust the salaries for employees in government agencies and State-sponsored institutions. The public response to the news, which they interpreted as "raising salary for officials", prompted the provincial governments to delete the news from their official websites. Beijing Youth Daily comments:
IN DECEMBER, a detainee at a local detention center in Gan'gu county, Northwest China's Gansu province, was reportedly beaten to death by other detainees because he didn't wipe his nose. The local People's Procuratorate later said the guards at the detention center were guilty of a serious dereliction of duty as the detainee was under their protection. The Beijing News says:
ANHUI PROVINCE in East China is proposing to introduce a special regulation that employers should give one or two days paid leave to female workers suffering abnormally heavy menstrual bleeding or severe period cramps if they have a prescription from the doctor. Beijing Times said:
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