THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF SHENZHEN, South China's Guangdong province, has banned electric bicycles and tricycles that do not meet the national standards from April 1.
ON SATURDAY, a pile-up on the expressway linking Shanghai and neighboring Jiangsu province in East China killed three people and injured over 20. That could have been avoided had bad driving habits not been so common, said an editorial on thepaper.cn on Sunday:
A WOMAN, who works in Beijing, couldn't return to Kunming, capital of Yunnan province in Southwest China, to sweep her parents' tombs. She hoped to find a tomb-sweeping service to do it for her but failed. Public cemeteries in the city have stopped the service for some time because there was little demand. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Monday:
Despite the weakening of its leadership, the United States is still trying to capitalize on its remaining advantages and the political clout it enjoys in the world to maintain its dominant status in a fast-developing multi-polar era.
To bridge the gaps in data availability, we (Standard Chartered) conducted our semiannual proprietary survey of China's property market in January-February, focusing on unlisted developers in lower-tier cities and polling senior managers at property developers in six second-and third-tier cities.
The central government will prevent local authorities from unnecessarily changing the names of roads, bridges, buildings and residential complexes, especially with capricious foreign and bizarre names, Li Liguo, the minister of Civil Affairs, said at a recent conference on geographical names.
Days before the country's new security laws came into effect on March 29, Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked National Defense Academy graduates to prepare to implement them.
Azerbaijan on Sunday announced a unilateral ceasefire after the worst violence over disputed Nagorno-Karabakh in more than two decades, but Armenian forces said clashes were continuing despite international appeals to stop fighting.
Fighting between Iraqi forces and militants affiliated with the Islamic State group close to Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, has displaced over 2,000 people in the past week.
A plan to send back migrants from Greece to Turkey sparked demonstrations by local residents in both countries on Saturday, two days before the deal brokered by the European Union is set to be implemented.
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