DPRK changing course will lead to peace talks

Beijing has two goals on the Korean Peninsula: peace and denuclearization.

US militarizing South China Sea

Despite being of a scale similar to last year's, the ongoing "shoulder-to-shoulder" military exercises between the United States and the Philippines are more provocative because of the addition of an islands-seizing exercise.

Mainland students studying abroad should have clear career plans

A BLUE BOOK on the employment of Chinese mainland students who have studied overseas, released by the Education Ministry on March 25, shows it has become increasingly difficult for mainland students to find a job overseas after graduating from a foreign college, and more and more of them are returning to the mainland to look for a job after obtaining a foreign diploma. Beijing News commented on Wednesday:

Assault on woman in hotel cause for concern

A YOUNG WOMAN complained on social media that a man assaulted her on Sunday night while she was staying at a Home Inn in Beijing. Video from the hotel's security cameras, which the woman filmed with her phone when shown it and then posted online, shows a male hotel employee asked the man to stop, but did not try to restrain him and it was a female guest who finally stopped the man. Zhang Zhouxiang, a writer with China Daily, comments:

Fake milk powder raises questions

THE FOOD and drug authorities responded on Monday to previous reports that more than 170,000 tubs of counterfeit milk powder had been sold into several provinces, saying Shanghai police have investigated the product and found no health risk in the fake milk powder. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:

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Political motives behind US operations

The United States began flexing its military muscles in the South China Sea last year as part of its political and diplomatic maneuvers in the region. The US knows better than any other country that it cannot directly prevent China's sovereign activities in the South China Sea. So it has attempted to do the next best thing, that is, make it more costly for China to safeguard its sovereignty through military, political, diplomatic and media tools. It is thus clear that the US' aim is to put China in an embarrassing diplomatic position.

A tale of three Disney cities in Asia

Asia is beginning to pull ahead of North America in the global theme park business. In East Asia, the focus is on Disney parks in Tokyo, Hong Kong and Shanghai. In 2014, the worldwide attendance growth in the top 10 theme park groups exceeded 5 percent. These conglomerates including Disney, Merlin, and Universal-received more than 392 million visitors.

On your bikes! Perhaps too early to say that

The crackdown on electric tricycles in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, launched late last month seems controversial. At a press conference on Tuesday, Shenzhen police tried to appease the public by saying the crackdown was targeted at illegal vehicles rather than express delivery services, and many media reports had exaggerated the number of tricycles seized.

Moral hazard in debt-to-equity plan needs addressing

China is reportedly considering a plan for debt-to-equity swaps, which are designed to bail out debt-ridden firms amid the economic downturn and prevent the non-performing loans of banks from rapidly piling up.

Neighbors share the will to be brotherly friends

With China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, in Myanmar on an official visit at the invitation of Aung San Suu Kyi in her new role as Myanmar's foreign minister, the guesswork over who would top her to-be-invited list has been put to rest.