Injuries allowed Nash to prepare for retirement

Suffering through three injury-plagued seasons in Los Angeles is not exactly how Steve Nash wanted to end his professional basketball career.

After worst season ever, Lakers see hopeful signs

The worst season in the Los Angeles Lakers' history has finally ended and the longest summer has just begun.

KG's return was a highlight, his finish a downer

February was winding down and the Minnesota Timberwolves were slogging through another terrible season, their worn out fan base's eyes glazing over as player after player was lost to injury.

Veteran Wambach adjusts with age

The obvious is not lost on Abby Wambach: She is getting older.

Chinese buy historic French club

The sale of historic French soccer club FC Sochaux by carmaker Peugeot to a Chinese high-tech company has sparked a cultural revolution in the grey industrial bastion.

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Interaction key for think tanks

China's influence and executive power in the world are rising fast. At the same time, there are many big, difficult and urgent matters China has to address. China needs more high-quality think tanks to contribute their wisdom to help the government and Communist Party of China solve these challenges.

Harbingers of a fairer global financial system

The change in the attitude of most Western powers toward the China-proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank can only be termed dramatic. From being indifferent to the idea, they have not only become supportive but also joined it as founding members.

Tsai should heed lessons of recent past

Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of Taiwan's main opposition Democratic Progressive Party, officially announced on Wednesday she would run in the "presidential" election next year. While the island could be on track for its first ever female leader, Tsai herself will have a major challenge to overcome, namely her "pro-independence" party's notorious image as a spoiler of cross-Straits relations.

Let's toast the nobodies and some writers

Used as an idiom, to "beat a tin drum" means creating disturbance to draw attention to a cause. The Tin Drum by Guenter Grass introduced us to the irritable and unreliable Oskar Matzerath and his sane (or insane, depending on how one perceives him) narration of the troubled times that culminated in World War II. Grass beat the "tin drum" to such a pitch 14 years after the end of WWII that the world was forced to pay attention to his cause.

Li talks of brighter future for Asia and Africa

Mr President, Mr Secretary-General, Distinguished Delegates and Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen.

Fishing for trouble in South China Sea

US Defense Secretary Ash Carter's recent remark on the South China Sea issue has again prompted many to wonder whether the self-proclaimed "Anchor of Peace" of the world is really keen on seeing calm waters.