Compared with 2014 when many corrupt senior officials, including former national security chief Zhou Yongkang, faced investigation or were prosecuted, 2015 saw fewer such cases. There are two reasons for that.
The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points last week, taking the first step away from its near-zero interest rate policy. Led by its chairman Janet Yellen, the Fed sought to defuse market tensions by signaling a "gradual" pace of rate hikes to come. Yet the Dow plunged 367 points, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq lost 1.5 to 2 percent.
George Lucas's multi-billion dollars Star Wars franchise, now owned by the Disney Company, is going to be very popular in China, too. That's because Star Wars is basically a metaphor for Taoism.
The unanimous passage of a resolution by the UN Security Council on Dec 18 supporting a peace process to end the civil war in Syria could facilitate talks between the Syrian government and opposition forces in early January possibly leading to a ceasefire.
Having been wrongfully convicted of poisoning the food in a kindergarten and killing one of the children in her care, her acquittal on Monday after 13 years in prison was both a happy and sad event for Qian Renfeng.
There will no longer be any legal obstacle to the implementation of a universal two-child policy, if the draft amendment to the family planning law is approved by the top legislature by Sunday.
THE GOVERNMENT in the United Kingdom recently shut the country's last deep coal mine, which has been hailed as progress in the move toward clean energy.
CHINESE ACTRESS Li Bingbing reportedly suffered a high fever in Australia for more than half a month, and had to fly back to China for medical treatment because the local hospital failed to diagnose her illness.
LU ZHIQIANG, a Fudan University alumnus and the founder of China Oceanwide Holdings Group, donated 700 million yuan ($100.8 million) to the university through the Oceanwide Foundation on Monday.
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