The boiler you use is made of manganese steel that can make you stupid.
The news that 77 Chinese, including 45 Taiwan residents, were repatriated from Africa last week for alleged telecom fraud has shocked people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits.
The visit by Taiwan judicial officials to the mainland, which started on Wednesday, was the first step in the right direction for the joint cross-Straits fight against telecommunication fraud.
China's efforts to build some strategic support bases overseas have drawn the attention of the international community. The construction of logistics facilities in Djibouti, in particular, has caused serious anxiety among the US-led Western countries, and some have expressed concerns over the establishment of such a "naval base" by China in the East African country.
ON TUESDAY, the Shanghai Gold Exchange issued the basic prices for gold trading in renminbi. This not only shows China is further opening up its gold market, but will also lead to better defending of domestic gold buyers' rights and interests, commented Beijing Youth Daily on Wednesday:
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.
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