Despite the recent nuclear test and rocket launch by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, tough UN economic sanctions on Pyongyang and the planned deployment of the US' Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile defense system in the Republic of Korea, economic and people-to-people exchanges between China and the ROK are still flourishing.
Two years ago, Xi Jinping paid his first visit to Europe as China's president. Apart from visiting four Western European countries and the European Union headquarters in Brussels, Xi also attended the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague in the Netherlands.
The outgoing Kuomintang party is not unfamiliar with losing power in Taiwan. With Tsai Ing-wen of the Democratic Progressive Party taking office as the island's leader on May 20, the KMT will become an opposition party for the second time since 2000.
Two online posts stirred wide debate at home about Chinese tourists' behavior overseas. In one, a video showed dozens of Chinese travelers scooping up shrimps directly with their plates at a buffet in Thailand, and then leaving some plates full of shrimps on their tables after the meal.
TWO CHINESE IVORY POACHERS, who were caught in possession of more than 700 elephant tusks in Tanzania, were each sentenced to 30 years in prison or a fine of about $23 million. Tao Duanfang, a columnist, commented on Saturday:
FEMALE EMPLOYEES IN BEIJING are now entitled to an extra 30 days maternity leave, according to a revised family planning regulation adopted by the capital on Thursday. Beijing Times said on Friday:
BASED ON their monthly consumption in the university canteen, which is the cheapest place for them to eat, students from poor families at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, can now directly receive subsidies without applying for them or having their applications disclosed. Beijing News on Saturday applauded such "off-the-record" subsidies:
Relations between China and the Czech Republic have intensified in the last two years, as demonstrated by the upcoming fourth meeting between President Xi Jinping and Czech President Milos Zeman since February 2014.
The United States has beefed up its military presence in the Asia-Pacific region, especially in the South China Sea, over the past months, apparently to challenge China's lawful claims.
The insanely high housing high prices in so-called school districts reflect the unfair allocation of educational resources in China's big cities. Parents' desire to get the best education for their children forces them to buy a house near "good" schools so that they can get them admitted there.
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