AFTER WAITING until the last minute, the representative of the Dongguan City Welfare Center in South China's Guangdong province announced that the winner of a lottery jackpot of 25.65 million yuan ($4 million) hadn't claimed it by the end of the pay-out period on Monday.
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank's opening ceremony will start in Beijing on Jan 16.On the eve of the event, China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang sought the views of three experts on the AIIB's role in the world financial system and its influence on the global economy. Following are excerpts from the interviews:
The revised discipline ordinance of the Communist Party of China that came into effect on Jan 1, 2016, is aimed at "strictly ruling the Party in an all-round way" and has been called the "strictest Party discipline".
As a global society, we're obsessed by initials, but MES, the latest set, hides a serious dispute between East and West that is threatening to turn the old order upside down.
In his last State of the Union address on Tuesday, US President Barack Obama talked about the need to fix domestic politics, but he could not forgo playing politics in a bid to push the US Congress to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
In a news conference on Wednesday after her New Year address, Park Geun-hye, president of the Republic of Korea, said her country will review the issue of whether to allow the deployment of the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense anti-ballistic missile defense system.
The cuts in the retail prices of gasoline and diesel from Thursday might be unlikely to appease those Chinese drivers who have complained that the prices of domestic refined oil products fail to reflect the sharp fall in international crude oil prices.
THE STATE-SPONSORED Beijing Transportation Research Center recently announced their "conclusion" that banning cars from the roads on alternate days based on odd-even license plates, something that has been implemented six times in Beijing since 2007, has eased traffic pressure. That's a shallow conclusion, says an opinion article on sznews.com:
A 26-YEAR-OLD, who sat this year's National Postgraduate Entrance Examination in place of someone else, is being prosecuted along with the person who was supposed to take the exam. Similar prosecution cases have been noted after the country included the offense in the Criminal Law in November. Beijing Times lauds such exemplary prosecutions but also calls for due punishments on all parties involved in the cheating:
JIANGSU Broadcast Corporation has continued to use If You Are the One as the name for its popular speed-dating show, even though the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court ruled it had infringed the property rights of a Wenzhou businessman by using the name. Chinese Business View commented on Wednesday:
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