To win the war against air pollution, it is more than important for the Beijing municipal government to come up with necessary measures to minimize the exposure of local residents, especially the most vulnerable groups, to the dense smog that could compromise public health.
Radical lawmakers in Hong Kong are staging a weird chorus against the move by the government of the special administrative region to extend the protection of copyrights to the Internet.
The lack of wildlife protection awareness among ordinary people has been revealed by people's online expressions of anger at the sentence handed down to a university student in Henan province, Central China. The student was sentenced to 10 and a half years in prison for capturing and selling endangered falcon chicks.
AT 6 PM ON MONDAY, after the city had been buried in heavy smog for the day, Beijing issued its first red alert for air pollution, with the relevant measures in effect from Tuesday to Thursday. A Beijing Youth Daily editorial calls on the authorities to strictly enforce these measures:
BI GUOCHANG,65, former chief of the Heilongjiang Bureau of China National Radio, had to walk home in his underwear after swimming in the sea near Sanya, South China's Hainan province on Friday, because urban patrol officers confiscated his bike and clothes in a pavilion without notifying him, claiming they were "illegally stored".
POLICE IN the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region rescued 19 people from a so-called psychiatric nursing hospital, which was used by a gang to house people with mental health problems they had kidnapped. The victims were kept in the "hospital" while ransoms were extorted from their families. The Beijing News reads:
To have, or not to have, a wedding banquet for daughters and sons, that is indeed the question for Party officials now. At least, how big such a banquet should be is a concern leaders at various levels must meticulously weigh before deciding to hold one.
For those who cannot secure a train ticket during next year's Spring Festival holiday, a time for family reunion, the app-based car-sharing service could be a convenient alternative.
China University of Political Science and Law has sparked a heated debate by appointing former ping-pong champion Deng Yaping as a part-time professor.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has just concluded a fruitful visit to Africa, during which he attended the Johannesburg Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation where he announced an array of concrete plans for common development.
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