China is often portrayed in a negative light by US politicians. However, fighting climate change may be an exception following the agreements reached by the leaders of the two countries to cut their carbon emissions.
Dialogue is the way the Dalai Lama proposed settling the conflict and differences between the civilized world and the Islamic State terrorists when he was interviewed by an Italian paper recently.
The Spring Festival holiday is always a peak period for train travel; and with tickets now on sale for trains during that period there has been a scramble to purchase tickets online.
DENG SHUCHAO, a resident of Panzhihua city, Southwest China's Sichuan province, committed suicide by jumping into the Yangtze River on Nov 30.
AN INCREASING NUMBER of local governments, especially in Northeast China, are applying to pilot national projects.
SOME LOCAL governments in Hebei and Jiangxi provinces and Chongqing municipality have been encouraging staff to take Friday afternoon off, as advocated by the central government in August. A commentator on Rednet.cn wrote:
Sad news came one after another in the past week.
The controversy over a woman nursing her baby on a crowded Beijing subway shows many people are ignorant of women's breastfeeding rights. And breastfeeding in public is an issue that reflects how much respect members of a society have for women.
The Western world should learn to value the treasures of traditional Chinese medicine as a branch of science.
To win the war against air pollution, it is more than important for the Beijing municipal government to come up with necessary measures to minimize the exposure of local residents, especially the most vulnerable groups, to the dense smog that could compromise public health.