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.
Global leaders should not allow their countries' current economic woes to dent their ambition to reach an agreement on transforming the world economy towards a low-carbon future.
The recent family planning policy adjustment that allows all couples to have two children has brought into the spotlight those residents without household registration in the country.
It is shameful that a large number of government-subsidized houses have been left unused in Guiyang, capital of Southwest China's Guizhou province, where many low-income residents cannot afford an apartment at market prices.
A TOWNSHIP-LEVEL PARTY CHIEF in Guilin, Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, is reported to have died from a fall in his house on Sunday; Zhao Mansheng is the ninth official to have died unexpectedly in the past 30 days. Their untimely deaths should be investigated to see whether any corruption or other wrongdoing was involved, says Beijing News:
A WOMAN FROM Xiangcheng county in Central China's Henan province has been single-handedly tracking down five people who she witnessed attacking and killing her husband 17 years ago.
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