Xu Yuyu, an 18-year-old woman from a rural village in East China's Shandong province, died last week of a heart attack reportedly caused by her distress at being fleeced of nearly 10,000 yuan ($1,500).
It has never been officially confirmed, but it is widely recognized that domestic films are carefully protected from foreign competitors every summer.
THE LATEST DATA from the China Internet Network Information Center show that the number of people with access to the internet in China was 710 million in June. Of them, 23 percent are below the age of 19, while 20.6 million are below the age of 10. A comment on Guangzhou Daily calls for a classification system for websites so as to better protect minors:
A VOCATIONAL SCHOOL in Nanning, capital city of South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, said it does not have enough accommodation for students admitted to the institution this semester, because their number is "more than expected". China Youth Daily commented on Thursday:
A VILLAGER in Nanba town, Xuanhan county in Southwest China's Sichuan province, was fined 650 yuan ($100) for hosting a birthday celebration for his 87-year-old mother on Aug 10. To curb the tradition of birthday feasts for local villagers who are also Party members, the township government earlier introduced a regulation that they could only hold such celebrations on their parents' 80th and 90th birthdays. Beijing News commented on Thursday:
News of the Sino-Russian joint exercise, Joint-Sea 2016, in the South China Sea in September is apparently irritating to the Commander of the US Pacific Fleet Admiral Scott Swift, who, despite visiting China in early August, described the joint drill as an action "not increasing the stability within the region" but "could have been conducted" in other places.
Elite sports and doping have long been deeply interlinked. Reaching an elite level in sports requires a tremendous amount of hard work, dedication and focus. By definition, few succeed, but those who do may enjoy great personal and financial rewards. Using performance-enhancing substances can seem like an easy way to boost one's chances of reaching - or remaining at - that top level.
On Aug 20, Chinese writer Hao Jingfang was declared the winner of this year's Hugo Award for Best Novelette for her short science fiction, Folding Beijing. Last year, the Los Angeles-based World Science Fiction Society had bestowed the Hugo Award for Best Novel to another Chinese writer, Liu Cixin, for The Three Body Problem.
When Barack Obama was first elected US president, many expected he would carry out a foreign policy that was less interventionist than his predecessor George W. Bush who ordered the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan.
Two days after the Republic of Korea and the United States began their annual military exercises to the south of the Korean Peninsula, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile on Wednesday.
US Department of State officials confirmed on Monday that they had recently received nearly 15,000 emails from the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of the bureau's investigation into Hillary Clinton's email server. These were not among the 30,000 emails that Clinton's lawyers previously provided to the department.
THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT OF YULIN in Northwest China's Shaanxi province built an affordable housing community for local residents in 2014, and over 2,000 families have purchased apartments there. However, due to the lack of infrastructure, the community is not suitable for living in and over 90 percent of the apartments remain unoccupied. Beijing News comments:
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