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.

Japan overtly meddling

In this year's "shoulder-to-shoulder" military exercises between the United States and the Philippines, Australia is sending 80 soldiers to participate, and Japan has sent two frigates and one submarine, showing its eager desire for larger involvement.

Thorough investigation needed to get to bottom of Guilin official's suicide

TANG TIANSHENG, director of the food and drug administration of Guilin in South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, committed suicide by jumping from the eighth floor of a local hospital building on Monday, one day after he went there to receive neurology treatment. The Beijing News commented on Tuesday:

Public must keep eye on use of taxpayers' money

PENG YINGLONG, an official from Hengyang, Central China's Hunan province, was recently expelled from office for suspected corruption. He reportedly bought almost everything in daily life, from paper diapers of his granddaughter to the wood for his future coffin, using public money. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Tuesday:

Deducting wage for trees voluntarily

TEN PERCENT of the monthly wage of civil servants in poverty-stricken Lintao county in Gansu province, Northwest China, is being deducted to subsidize tree planting in the county. Xinhua Daily Telegraph commented on Tuesday:

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China, Myanmar to broaden engagement

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is paying an official visit to Myanmar on Tuesday and Wednesday at the invitation of Myanmar's new Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi.

Reduce packaging, make deliveries greener

The rapid growth of online shopping and express delivery services has given rise to huge amounts of rubbish in China, says a recent cankaoxiaoxi.com report. Last year alone, 16.95 billion meters of adhesive tape and 9.9 billion boxes were used to deliver the purchases of online shoppers.