Inappropriate govt gifts show lack of concern

A RESIDENT in a village in Shaanxi province, Northwest China, complained to the media that his disabled grandfather had received a miniskirt and women's shorts as a New Year gift from the county government. An official from the local government said that all the clothes were donated by a Shanghai clothing company and the clothes were not necessarily for the elderly man but for other family members. China Youth Daily on Tuesday comments:

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Circuit breaker instantly triggered

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Need for second aircraft carrier is real

The Ministry of Defense has confirmed that China is building a second aircraft carrier. Zhang Junshe, a researcher at the PLA Naval Military Studies Research Institute, shares his views on the development with China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang:

A life lost for a few bars of chocolates

A 12-year-old girl, who was detained by a convenience store's managers in Yongchang county of Northwest China's Gansu province for allegedly stealing some chocolate bars, committed suicide by jumping from a high-rise building. While stealing is an offense, the tragedy that led to mass protests in Yongchang last week should prompt a rethink on the practice of shop-owners detaining alleged thieves and demanding high fines.

Tensions may deal a blow to the fight against terrorism

Saudi Arabia severed diplomatic ties with Iran on Sunday and asked all Iranian diplomats to leave the country within 48 hours after angry Iranian protesters stormed the Saudi embassy in Teheran in protest against the execution of 47 people, including prominent Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr, on terrorism charges by Riyadh. Following Saudi Arabia's move, Sudan and Bahrain severed ties with Iran and the United Arab Emirates said it would downgrade ties with Teheran.

Riyadh looking to assert itself in Middle East

The feud between Saudi Arabia and Iran sparked by Saudi Arabia's execution of a Shiite cleric shows no sign of abating.

Stocks' circuit breaker triggers call for changes

The 7-percent dive in the value of Chinese stocks on Monday, the first trading day of the year, triggered the new circuit breaker mechanism that also came into effect that day.

Calm down Mideast feud

The escalation in tensions between two Middle East powers has put the region under severe strain.

Publishing graft cases online indispensable to curb corruption

THE CENTRAL COMMISSION for Discipline Inspection, China's top anti-graft agency, recently found that the provincial discipline inspection departments published less than one-fourth of their cases on their websites throughout 2015.

University donations must be made transparent

BEIJING-BASED Tsinghua University received more than 10 billion yuan ($1.5 billion) by the end of 2015 from donors both at home and abroad.

Law can restrict the number of smoking scenes in a film

BEIJING'S tobacco control association recently published an open letter criticizing the movie Mr Six, which stars well-known director Feng Xiaogang, for glamorizing smoking.