The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's board of directors recently approved the new institution's much talked-about environmental and social framework (ESF) which lays out the levels of protections the bank will have in place to ensure that people and the environment are not inadvertently harmed in its financed projects.
The bright picture a recent McKinsey report painted about the rise of modern Chinese consumers is indeed tempting for businesses at home and abroad. The rewards must be substantial for those who get it right with the swelling consumer group, which has so far looked surprisingly confident.
The other day in my "up and coming area", I walked past yet another twee storefront. An oval sign announced it was "---Gallery". Beside it, a more commercial-looking sign said: "---Coffee".
Item from March 25, 1998, in China Daily: Li Shanlu (right), a 42-year-old laid-off worker, applies to work as a driver for a private company at the Beijing Municipal Employment Service Center ... Beijing will take various measures to help 80 percent of the city's laid-off workers find new jobs this year ... With the restructuring of State enterprises in recent years, the re-employment of laid-off workers has become a nationwide issue.
Nearly half of the respondents in a recent education survey said they supported the use of calculators in math classes.
Local Party chiefs and government leaders will be held accountable if their negligence leads to major criminal cases, mass incidents or accidents endangering the public in the provinces or regions they are responsible for, central authorities said on Thursday.
As the lavish spending of Chinese soccer clubs on foreign players makes global headlines, insiders suggest the country should invest more in youth cultivation to catch up with the world's best.
A former senior official in Shanxi province pleaded guilty on Thursday to taking bribes worth 44.58 million yuan ($6.8 million).
Women employees in Beijing who give birth to a second child could have their maternity leave extended by up to three months, according to a revised regulation on family planning adopted by the city on Thursday.
Nineteen miners died and 110 escaped with their lives after a cave-in at a coal mine in Shanyin county on Wednesday night, the mine's parent company said on Thursday.
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