The wrath directed at China's online search giant Baidu is understandable.
Courts across Beijing have handled 16,281 cases involving "individuals suing the government" since the country's new Administrative Procedure Law came into force on May 1, 2015, an increase of 99 percent year-on-year. Local governments have lost 29 percent of them.
AFTER A VIDEO was posted online showing people in uniforms beating women and children in Haikou, southern China's Hainan province, as they were evicted from their homes, the local government has apologized and detained some suspects. But there are more questions to be answered, says Bi Yantao, a professor at Hainan Tropical Ocean University:
CHINESE POLICE OFFICERS began a two-week joint patrol program in Italy with Italian police on Monday. The four Chinese officers will cooperate with their Italian partners to deal with problems related to Chinese tourists' security, protect Chinese tourists' legal interests, and facilitate Chinese travelers' communication with the Italian police, Li Yang, a writer with China Daily, comments:
BEIJING HOMELINK Real Estate Brokerage Co announced on Saturday that as of May 25, its 6,000 branches across the country will become emergency alert stations for children who are separated from their parents. This has aroused criticism from the police. Beijing Times commented on Tuesday:
Thanks to fear mongering on the US presidential campaign trail, the trade debate and its impact on American workers is being distorted at both ends of the political spectrum. From China-bashing on the right to the backlash against the Trans-Pacific Partnership on the left, Republicans and Democrats both have mischaracterized foreign trade as the United States' greatest economic threat.
Following Ma Ying-jeou's election in 2008, Taiwan endorsed the 1992 Consensus. Under this arrangement, both Taiwan and the Chinese mainland accept the principle of "one China", but each side holds its own interpretation of what that means.
In recent weeks, China's Belt and Road Initiative, the Silk Road Economic Belt and 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, has got several bottom-up but energetic responses from Europe. Among them was the formation of the Europe and China tourism and cultural development committee a few days ago in Brussels. The committee is the brainchild of Benard Dewit, chairman of the Belgian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce and other key European brains.
A video clip, in which some men wielding clubs and electric shock batons assaulted women and children during the demolition of illegally built housing, sends a chill down the spine.
While more and more Chinese people are choosing Japan as a tourist destination, they have become increasingly aware that the Japanese government's deeds contradict its welcoming words.
BAIDU, THE WEB SERVICE COMPANY behind China's leading search engine, is facing a storm of netizen criticism after the death last month of Wei Zexi, a 21-year-old man who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer. Searching for a hospital that could help him on Baidu, Wei was guided to a hospital in Beijing that reportedly provided him with expensive treatment that it had allegedly misrepresented. It is Baidu's virtual monopoly of online searches that is behind such incidents, says Zhang Zhouxiang with China Daily:
THE TOBACCO MONOPOLY BUREAU in Dezhou in East China's Shandong province issued a letter calling on its employees to promote the sales of expensive cigarettes. Gmw.cn commented on Sunday:
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