The International Monetary Fund's decision to include the yuan in the Special Drawing Rights basket will not directly increase the demand for yuan assets.
The terrorist attacks in Paris and the shooting down of a Russian fighter jet by Turkey have definitely added more uncertainties to the already weak global growth.
The shooting down of a Russian fighter jet by Turkey on Tuesday is a most unfortunate incident, which has raised global concerns over the fallout between the two countries. This indeed is a testing time, but all sides concerned have to exercise restraint because their fight is against a common enemy: terrorism.
The recent exposure of the widespread acquisition of a huge amount of State subsidies earmarked for grain planting has revealed the loopholes in oversight and management of these State funds.
A SEVEN-SECOND VIDEO posted online showed Terry Gou, president of Foxconn Technology Group, asking an employee smoking in a non-smoking area to put out his cigarette.
ALL THE FIRST-YEAR pupils in Yuhan Primary School in Linyi, East China's Shandong province, were instructed to hit themselves in the face 100 times by their teacher.
ZHOU GONGDU, a chemistry professor at Peking University, has announced he intends to sue Beijing TV for broadcasting an advertisement for the French cosmetic brand Franic that repeats the phrase "we hate chemistry" in Chinese throughout and displays the Chinese characters for this. Beijing Youth Daily said the ad sent the wrong message.
For the nearly nine years that I have been the United Nations secretary-general, I have traveled the world to the front-lines of climate change, and I have spoken repeatedly with world leaders, businesspeople and citizens about the need for an urgent global response.
Last month, all of China applauded Tu Youyou as she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for her work in developing a drug that is now used globally to treat malaria. In 1945, the same prize was awarded to three scientists for producing the world's first antibiotic, penicillin.
Fan Jinghui, the Chinese national held hostage by the Islamic State group, was murdered on Nov 19. A day later, gunmen attacked the Radisson Blu Hotel in Bamako, capital of Mali, took hostages and killed more than 20 people, three of whom were Chinese nationals.
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