Internet Plus has been selected as China's "domestic buzz word of 2015" in a joint poll by the National Language Resource Monitoring and Research Center, the Commercial Press, people.com.cn and China Central Television.
The rare official notice urging property developers to "properly" reduce housing prices should serve as a stern warning to those who bid recklessly to send land prices soaring in first-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.
By expressing what it called "serious concerns" about China's draft counterterrorism law, the United States is wantonly compromising the global efforts to fight terrorism.
As part of its efforts to improve the image of Chinese tourists overseas, the National Tourism Administration recently made public the names of five tourists blacklisted for "uncivilized behavior".
A RECENT SURVEY shows that metropolises like Beijing and Shanghai have seen the inflow of millions of migrants for the past several years.
AT THE JUST CONCLUDED Central Urban Work Conference, which was presided over by President Xi Jinping on Sunday and Monday in Beijing, it was decided to roll out measures to reduce the country's unsolved property inventory and stabilize its ailing housing market.
A SHORT VIDEO was posted online showing security personnel in Zaozhuang, Shandong province in East China, badly treating a couple who they caught having sex in a car.
Compared with 2014 when many corrupt senior officials, including former national security chief Zhou Yongkang, faced investigation or were prosecuted, 2015 saw fewer such cases. There are two reasons for that.
The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points last week, taking the first step away from its near-zero interest rate policy. Led by its chairman Janet Yellen, the Fed sought to defuse market tensions by signaling a "gradual" pace of rate hikes to come. Yet the Dow plunged 367 points, while the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq lost 1.5 to 2 percent.
George Lucas's multi-billion dollars Star Wars franchise, now owned by the Disney Company, is going to be very popular in China, too. That's because Star Wars is basically a metaphor for Taoism.
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