JAPANESE PRIME MINISTER Shinzo Abe expressed his resolve to realize constitutional amendments during his tenure before a meeting of the House of Councilors Budget Committee on Wednesday.
THE MINISTRY OF Environmental Protection has rejected the plan for a chemical plant to produce polyolefin in Southwest China's Guizhou province, due to the pollution risk.
THE RESULTS OF an investigation by East China's Jiangsu provincial quality supervision bureau into the quality of sports helmets were released on Tuesday.
China aims to build a xiaokang (moderately prosperous) society in a comprehensive manner and eliminate extreme poverty by the end of the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-20) period.
World Wildlife Day, celebrated on March 3 every year, gives us an occasion to celebrate and appreciate the many beautiful plants and animals that share our planet. It is also an occasion to raise awareness about the interdependence of wildlife, people and sustainable development, and to demonstrate why the continued presence of wildlife is vital for human being's well-being.
Many people have been calling for an independent study into the cause of the recent riot in the Mong Kok area of Hong Kong. If the terms of reference are set right, an independent study may indeed prove useful. For example, reports say social media tools have increasingly been used by individuals and organizations to politically radicalize people.
Queuing up recently in a post office in Cleveland Park, Washington, D.C., a woman complained tome about the long line of customers being serviced by only one clerk. She then angrily provided a long list of what is going wrong in the United States.
Even prior to his maiden show as spokesman for the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at Wednesday's news conference, what Wang Guoqing said had already turned heads.
As the annual session of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, draws near, there has been a growing number of foreign media reports speculating that "a considerable rise" in China's military spending will be announced. Some have suggested a 20 percent rise.
ON TUESDAY, the government of Shenyang, the capital of northeastern China's Liaoning province, issued a guideline lowering the down payment requirements for house purchases in the city to as low as zero, and subsidizing purchases by college students and fresh graduates to encourage sales. The higher authorities suspended the guidelines on Tuesday night. An article in Beijing Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:
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