EU should urge US to stop distrusting China

In recent years, China has responded positively to appeals of shouldering more international responsibilities. Even the communique issued after the recent Fifth Plenum of the 18th Communist Party of China Central Committee, which was held mainly to hammer out the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20), said China would shoulder more global responsibilities.

Resumption of IPOs will keep stock market sound

Just as China's stock market jumped more than 20 percent from its August low, the China Securities Regulatory Commission announced on Friday that it will resume initial public offerings, which were halted amid a market rout in July.

Making good use of trade

At a moment when the United States is strongly pushing the Trans-Pacific Partnership free-trade deal as a foundation for "21st century trade", that the US' politically sensitive trade gap with China widened to $36.3 billion, as imports hit a record $45.7 billion in September, will likely further stoke the US' specious argument that China should not write the trade rules for 21st century.

Meeting between Xi and Ma sets good precedent for 'family affair'

XI JINPING AND MA YING-JEOU met and exchanged their visions with regards to the cross-Straits relations on Saturday afternoon in Singapore, marking the first meeting between leaders of the two sides of the Taiwan Straits since 1949. Comments:

Plastic surgery can be scarring and not fit for all

ABOUT 56,000 CHINESE visited the Republic of Korea for plastic surgery last year. But whether people should face disfigurement in the quest for beauty has sparked debate. Comments:

Students need proper sex education

A UNIVERSITY IN XI'AN, Northwest China's Shaanxi province, reportedly initiated an optional course in which all enrolled female students are required to sign a "letter of commitment" to say no to the premarital sex and extramarital affairs. Comments:

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Social protection key to poverty alleviation

China has an unmatched record of achievement in poverty reduction over the past three and a half decades - accounting for 72 percent of the global reduction in extreme poverty. Last month, at the United Nations General Assembly, President Xi Jinping reiterated China's ambitious targets to further reduce poverty, as 7 percent of the developing world's poor still live in China today.

Sales bonanza will not boost economy

The online shopping sale on Nov 11 has been put in the spotlight with analysts keen to find solid evidence of improving consumer demand that might bolster the slowing economy.

Mother's first embrace can be the gift of life

By the time you finish reading this article, a newborn infant will have died somewhere in the Western Pacific Region. This death, like many others, might have easily been prevented, and at minimal cost, through a package of simple, low-cost interventions starting with the first embrace - the simple act of ensuring skin-to-skin contact between mother and baby immediately after birth.

Youth exchanges hold promise of better ties in future

Winding up his third trip to China on October 31, Toshihiro Nikai, chairman of the General Council of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was accompanied by 100 Chinese high school students paying a week-long visit to Japan. They were the first batch of 500 Chinese students invited to visit Japan.