Intervention poison not magic potion

The new era of win-win cooperation heralded by President Xi Jinping's visit to three countries in the region presents the crisis-ridden Middle East with a golden opportunity to blaze a new trail out of its chronic turmoil.

How local govts cope with blizzards indicate their skills in public service

CHINA'S NATIONAL Meteorological Center announced a blue alert on Wednesday morning for snowstorms, which are expected to sweep across China in the coming days.

Evaluate juvenile offenders before showing leniency

AN 11-YEAR-OLD GIRLwas raped and killed on Jan 18, with a suspect surnamed Wei arrested two days later.

Poverty causes parents to sell their children

POLICE IN SOUTHWEST China's Sichuan province and East China's Shandong province rescued 15 babies from gangs that planned to sell them. Among the 78 suspects detained, are some of the babies' biological parents. Beijing News says on Thursday:

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Belt and Road Initiative needs good laws

Since its introduction by Chinese President Xi Jinping in 2013, the Belt and Road Initiative (the Silk Road Economic Belt and the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road) - an ambitious plan to revitalize the ancient Silk Road overland and maritime trade routes linking East and West - has attracted considerable attention.

Supply-side reform calls for new system

Given China's current economic conditions, a large-scale stimulus to strengthen the demand side will not help mitigate the downward economic pressure; instead, it will exacerbate its overproduction and environmental degradation problems.

How to balance welfare and economic growth

The laws of economics say social welfare should be in accordance with the economic development level of a country.

Paper misleads US by pointing to wrong place of danger

The Asia-Pacific Rebalance 2025 report unveiled by the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) on Wednesday reads like a call to prepare for a war with China.

Caution against misguided fears on growth and oil

If the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, the International Monetary Fund's decision to cut its global growth forecast for the third time in a year should not be interpreted as a result of worries about the Chinese economy or plummeting oil prices.

Employers will have to pay

Every year before Spring Festival there are a flood of reports of migrant workers not being paid by their employers. A range of measures recently worked out by China's Cabinet should help to at least curb the long-standing problem of employers defaulting on wages.