ON THURSDAY, a Chinese female tourist twice slapped the face of a cashier in a duty free shop in Los Angeles International Airport. The woman was subdued on the spot and later detained. The Beijing Times commented on Tuesday:
The British government recently published a 2.6-million-word investigation report on its military involvement in the Iraq war. Were it not for Brexit, the Nice attack, Turkey's coup and the South China Sea arbitration farce, the report would have made bigger headlines.
Editor's Note: Han Chunyu, an associate professor of biology at Hebei University of Science & Technology, impressed researchers across the globe this May with his paper on NgAgo, a new-generation gene-editing tool. Yet several overseas scientists say they have not been able to repeat the experiment and have asked him to publish the original data. Following are the views of two scholars on the issue:
From the first China-ASEAN Education Cooperation Week in 2008 on "Working Together for a New China-ASEAN Partnership" to the this year's 9th CAECW, the developments reflect the organizing committee's efforts to build the spirit of cooperation and partnership between China and Southeast Asian nations, working around the "Triple Helix of cooperation", which begins with learning to accept and know one another, developing a sense of belonging, and seeking ways and means to contribute and share experiences to foster sustainable regional development and peace through education.
When Tung Chee-hwa, vice-chairman of China's top political advisory body and former Hong Kong chief executive, expressed his concerns on the current state of China-US relations on an international law forum in Hong Kong last month, he was not raising false alarms.
How far will Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-wen go in her endeavors to estrange the island from the mainland? No one seems to be able to tell from what she has said. But everyone can see where her government is trying to lead the island when it comes to relations across the Taiwan Straits.
On Friday, the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund publicized its 2015 financial year report, which showed a 3.8 percent loss of 5.3 trillion Japanese yen ($51.2 billion). Both the media and opposition political parties blamed Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for the loss because it was his idea to increase the percentage of the fund invested in the stock market.
ONLINE SHOPPERS in Nanjing, capital of East China's Jiangsu province, will be charged an extra fee from Sept 1, if couriers have to make a third trip to deliver a particular order. The decision made by the local legislature has sparked a heated public debate. Beijing Times commented on Monday:
HOW MANY OFFICIALS can one bribe in a single case? Wang Shunxi, an entrepreneur from Xinxiang in Central China's Henan province, bribed at least eight, ranging from a judge in a provincial court to staff at the Supreme People's Court. Gmw.cn comments:
AFTER AN INVESTIGATION into overseas brands of milk powder, about 40 percent of the 19 tested have been "disqualified" from the Chinese market because they did not meet the national standards. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Monday:
The direction of the financial tides flowing in and out of China's shores has been changing. The perception that China is primarily attractive as an inbound investment center is now being outpaced by Chinese money heading across the world to acquire assets.
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