The severity of the hazardous smog that has forced Beijing to close schools twice so far this month should justify local education authorities heeding the calls of parents for air purifiers and other facilities to be installed in classrooms.
Since it is now the second-largest economy in the world, China accepts that it should pay a bigger UN membership fee and bear a greater share of the international body's peacekeeping costs.
AS TAIWAN is to hold debates among local leadership candidates for the region, Terry Gou, chairman of the Taiwan multinational Hon Hai/Foxconn Technology Group, openly called for the candidates to talk clearly about the issues instead of trying to play on voters' emotions. Haiwainet.cn asks whether that will work:
GUANGZHOU, capital of South China's Guangdong province, is reportedly reviewing the plan to build 15 new subway lines prior to 2030 at a cost nearly 500 billion yuan ($77 billion).
A CAR CARRYING a couple and three children crashed into a school in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province in East China. The driver, who had no license, has been detained on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs as well.
The year 2015 will be of special importance to China in terms of population policy because it has seen a milestone revision to the family planning policy.
From June 1 it has begun to feel like public health might be starting to win out in the battle against tobacco in Beijing.
Internet Plus has been selected as China's "domestic buzz word of 2015" in a joint poll by the National Language Resource Monitoring and Research Center, the Commercial Press, people.com.cn and China Central Television.
The rare official notice urging property developers to "properly" reduce housing prices should serve as a stern warning to those who bid recklessly to send land prices soaring in first-tier cities such as Beijing and Shanghai.
By expressing what it called "serious concerns" about China's draft counterterrorism law, the United States is wantonly compromising the global efforts to fight terrorism.
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