ON WEDNESDAY, the Beijing Municipal Academy of Social Sciences published a report highlighting the need to improve the capital's care services for senior citizens. Gmw.cn commented:
Over the last three decades, State-owned enterprises underpinned China's emergence as a global manufacturing powerhouse, by spearheading the infrastructure construction boom. In the process, they became dominant, especially in sectors such as telecommunications and power and key strategic areas like steel, coal and banking.
Large swathes of Central and South China have been hit by rainstorms and floods since June, reminding people of the massive floods of 1998 that claimed at least 1,800 lives and affected more than 100 million people along the Yangtze River. The current spate of floods, in all likelihood, will cause more economic damage than 18 years ago in the affected areas that include 11 provinces, regions and municipalities along the Yangtze River and Huaihe River.
A Chinese actress has sparked a debate by using Angelababy as her name in publications. Angelababy is not a literal translation of Yang Ying, her original name, but just an adopted name. Born in Shanghai, Yang made a career in Honk Kong; she is also known as Yeung Wing (closer to the Cantonese pronunciation) and Angela Yeung Wing.
A fleet of the People's Liberation Army Navy is participating in the ongoing Rim of the Pacific Exercise even as much of the media attention remains focused on the South China Sea. In the US Congress some voices were raised not to invite China to this year's Rimpac because of the tensions in the South China Sea, but that argument was rejected by most. Among those who have rejected the argument is Admiral Scott Swift, commander of the US Pacific Fleet, who made his stand clear while speaking at the opening press conference of Rimpac 2016 at Pearl Harbor on Tuesday.
Former Chinese State councilor Dai Bingguo's recent speech at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace touched a raw nerve in Washington D.C.
According to a new gross domestic product accounting system adopted by the National Bureau of Statistics, China's GDP in 2015 increased by 879.8 billion yuan ($131.76 billion), an increase of 1.03 percent in size.
LOCAL POLICE IN SUZHOU, East China's Jiangsu province, detained the crew of a boat when they tried to dump about 4,000 tons of garbage from Shanghai municipality. Beijing News comments:
SOME SO-CALLED bed renters reportedly hire out camp beds to patients who fail to get a bed in the emergency room in Beijing Tiantan Hospital, a leading general hospital in the capital. Scol.com.cn commented on Wednesday:
TWO BUDDHIST temples in Beijing - Tanzhe Temple and Jietai Temple - that have been involved in a listed company since 1998, were expected to return to their religious roles on June 30. However, the date set by the local authorities did not see the listed company terminating its contracted operations with management of the temples' tourism activities. Beijing News commented on Tuesday:
The South China Sea arbitration unilaterally initiated by the Philippines against China in The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration has violated many international standards of law and rules. To begin with, the arbitral tribunal does not properly identify or prove the existence of a real dispute. Also, the tribunal does not follow the world's principal legal systems.
The UK's decision to vote in favor of leaving the European Union in a nationwide referendum on June 23 has already boosted the prices of precious metals. The prospects for both gold and silver over the coming years are bright. Nonetheless, Brexit alone may not be the game changer for the gold market that many anticipate.
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