WANG WEI, CEO of the leading Chinese logistics company S.F. Express, has pledged to hold accountable a Beijing taxi driver who recently slapped one of the company's employees when his delivery cart bumped into the taxi. China Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:
JILIN UNIVERSITY of Finance and Economics based in Changchun, capital of Northeast China's Jilin province, recently launched new rules to regulate the daily schedule of students including the hours students can access the internet in their dormitories. Every student was asked to sign their acceptance of the new rules. China Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:
The ongoing State-owned enterprises' reform has a key role to play in the country's comprehensive economic transition, but it would not be right to overdo it, especially because the SOEs and society are not yet ready.
The crisis caused by e-bike traffic bans in several Chinese cities makes one wonder if new generations of drones might take the place of urban couriers. Visions of some modern futuristic megacity with skies filled high, low and wide with nifty drones delivering South Korean cosmetics, urgent medicines and nanochip upgrades make for a nice place to live.
The rising price of pork is sounding alarm bells in China. Currently, pork costs about 26 yuan ($4) per kilogram - an increase of about 48 percent since last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. China, the world's largest producer and consumer of pork, is again seeing worrying impacts of rising pork prices on the overall price of food.
Russell Peters, the Canadian stand-up comedian of Indian origin, said during one of his talk shows: "Terrorists hate Americans. Indians hate each other". He might have spared Indians the ridicule had he known the depth of hatred among Chinese, as manifested in regional discrimination and sentiments.
Blaming other countries is always an easy, surefire way for politicians to whip up a storm over domestic economic woes, but finger-pointing and protectionism are counter-productive to remedying those woes.
Less severe than the death penalty but severer than the death penalty with a two-year reprieve, a new sentence of life imprisonment without parole is being introduced for officials who commit serious corruption crimes.
THE FOREIGN LANGUAGES SCHOOL in Changzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, where 493 students have been diagnosed with a variety of diseases, continues to make headlines. The school is located where three chemical plants once operated, and an environmental investigation team has been sent to determine if high levels of pollutants such as chlorobenzene are the cause of the students' health issues. Thepaper.cn said on Tuesday:
CHEN MINGMING, a vice provincial governor in Southwest China's Guizhou province, appeared in court last week as the defendant in a land requisition case brought by a farmer. This is reportedly the first time a leading official from a provincial government has appeared in court as the defendant in a civil lawsuit. Beijing News commented on Tuesday:
SINCE MONDAY, 20 Chinese live-streaming sites including Sina, Baidu and Sohu have implemented real-name registration for webcasting anchors and promised not to register internet anchors under the age of 18. Rednet.cn commented on Tuesday:
In A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, a document that has been widely distributed since 1996, the author, John Perry Barlow, a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, declared that the internet is free, open and equal, and called on governments to leave it alone.
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