In the latest floods across a large swathe of China, rural areas have been hit harder than urban areas in terms of their casualties, although the waterlogging of big cities has dominated the headlines.
LIKE MANY CITIES in Central China, Anyang of Henan province has been flooded as a result of the recent rainstorms. Yet an advertisement posted by a real estate company appeared in the ruins of one of its flooded villages: "Do you regret not having bought an apartment in the city? Come and buy one." Beijing Youth Daily comments:
ON SUNDAY, a failed asylum-seeker from Syria blew himself up and wounded 12 people after being turned away from an open-air music festival in southern Germany. It was the fourth attack to shake Germany in about 10 days. Earlier on Sunday, a Syrian asylum seeker killed a woman with a machete and injured two other people in Reutlingen; on Friday, an Iranian-German shot dead nine people in Munich before killing himself; and on July 18, a 17-year-old asylum-seeker attacked passengers on a train. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Monday:
TIGERS at a wildlife park in Beijing attacked two women on Saturday after they got out of their car. Park rangers went to their aid within seconds, but they were unable to save one of the women. The tragedy reminds people that they should never ignore safety rules, said an article on the website of People's Daily:
It is worrisome that the Republic of Korea has agreed to deploy the US' Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense system on its soil despite the opposition from China and Russia. If the ROK ignores its neighbors' concerns and implements its agreement with the United States, what would be the consequences?
In March, the British government announced that it intends to impose a tax on sugary drinks from 2018 to tackle childhood obesity. Whether the tax, which will be debated this summer, achieves its public-health goals depends on the details, and on rigorous evaluation of its effects.
The Beijing municipal government did a much better job of dealing with last week's rainstorm than it had done during the deluge four years ago. For instance, it sent out warnings to Beijing residents via SMS in time, as well as pressed enough police and emergency rescue personnel into service to help those in need.
The Dutch seem pleased with a recent announcement that King Willem-Alexander's daughter Amalia, the 13-year-old heir to the throne, will learn Chinese during the upcoming school semester. Some have even called it the royal family's "smartest investment" given the deepening relationship between China and the Netherlands.
Yang Xiuzhu, who fled to the United States in 2003 and is suspected of taking with her a large sum of money in bribes and embezzled public funds, has reportedly made the decision to give up her application to seek asylum in the United States.
Addressing his party's national convention on Thursday, US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said he will restore the feeling of safety US people fear they're losing and vowed to put the United States first and replace globalism with "Americanism".
A HUNDRED AND TEN CHINESE COMPANIES made the latest Fortune Global 500 list, almost double the number from Japan. Twelve of them made their debut, including manufacturing powerhouse China Railway Rolling Stock Corp and property developer Wanda. Beijing News commented on Saturday:
IN AN INTERVIEW with The Washington Post, when asked whether the mainland has a deadline by which the Chinese central government wants her to agree to the 1992 Consensus, Taiwan's new leader Tsai Ing-wen said it's unlikely that Taiwan will accept a deadline for conditions that "are against the will of the people". Qiu Yi, a famous Taiwan scholar, said on Saturday Tsai has finally showed her true intentions of seeking the island's "formal independence":
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