The GDP growth in the second quarter of this year was 6.7 percent, the same as that in the first quarter. Despite the slowdown in private sector investment - at 2.8 percent a year - the total social investment grew 9 percent in the first half. And total trade and exports grew 0.1 percent and 1.2 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, arresting the declining trend in China's global trade.
Where should we urinate? Most people are likely to say, "the washroom, of course". But how about a swimming pool?
US and Philippine businesses and products, from the American fast food chain KFC and Apple's iPhones to dried mangoes from the Philippines, have become the targets of online calls for mass boycott in the week following the ruling of the arbitral tribunal in the case initiated by Manila against Beijing over the South China Sea dispute.
The ongoing three-day visit by US Chief of Naval Operations John Richardson to China, which started on Sunday, comes at a sensitive time, following an arbitral tribunal ruling last week that seeks to invalidate China's historic claims in the South China Sea.
Having remained at large in Peru for 18 years, Huang Haiyong, who is suspected of involvement in smuggling and tax evasion, was brought back to China on Sunday, the first case of successful extradition of a criminal suspect from Latin America to China.
MORE THAN 200 PEOPLE in 26 provinces and autonomous regions infected with HIV have recently received calls from fraudsters asking them to pay a registration fee to "apply for a government subsidy", according to statistics from White Birch, a Chinese non-governmental organization that helps those with HIV and AIDS. Protecting citizens' personal information is a legal responsibility of the government, and increasingly a harsh test of its governance ability in the information era, said Beijing Times on Monday. Excerpts:
THE OFFICIALS OF AN UNNAMED CITY are reported to have falsified data when writing reports about how much investment they have attracted for local development. Southern Metropolis Daily proposes ending the practice of judging an official's performance by how much investment he or she brings to the local economy:
THE GOVERNMENT of Jinan in East China's Shandong province solicited public views on how to strengthen the regulations covering parking in the city. Xinhua.net commented on Monday:
China's overall economic growth held steady at 6.7 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, as better exports and steady infrastructure investment offset downward pressures from increasingly weak corporate investment and the spurt in real estate construction started to lose momentum.
Three police officers were killed, several others injured on Sunday in a shooting incident in Baton Rouge, the capital city of the US state of Louisiana. It is a second shocking case after the shooting deaths of five police officers in Dallas and the police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota.
Floods cause more damage each year globally than any other natural disaster - the United Nations says 157,000 people died in floods and another 2.3 billion were affected between 1995 and 2015. The current global average annual flood loss is estimated at $104 billion, and the country incurring the highest loss is China, followed by the United States and India. And these losses do not include disruptions in global supply chains.
Tatsuo Hirano, an independent member of Japan's upper house of parliament, or Diet, applied last week to join the ruling Liberal Democratic Party. His change of mind will give the LDP majority in the upper house for the first time in 27 years.
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