Editor's Note: The June 22 executive meeting of the State Council, China's Cabinet reviewed the falling growth rate of non-governmental investment and the implementation of polices aimed at promoting private investments, and vowed to remove the obstacles preventing private investors from injecting more money into projects. Following are the comments of some domestic media outlets on the meeting:
Immediately prior to Rodrigo Duterte's inauguration as the new Philippine leader, The Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration announced it would deliver a ruling on July 12 in the Philippines' case against China over their South China Sea dispute.
US Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton made their first joint campaign appearance on Monday, finally confirming the previous speculation that Warren would be picked as Clinton's running mate.
ON WEDNESDAY, the National Audit Office reported to the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, that local governments had misappropriated 151 million yuan ($22.75 million) of poverty alleviation funds and wasted another 870 million yuan. Beijing Times comments:
THE PARENTS OF MANY MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS in Kunming, capital of Southwest China's Yunnan province, have reportedly questioned the bonus score policy in the just concluded senior high school entrance examination. More than 11,000 examinees, nearly 16 percent of those who took this year's exam, had a bonus added to their original test scores. People's Daily commented on Thursday:
IN JULY 2013, Broad Group held a ceremony in Changsha, Central China's Hunan province, to mark the laying of a cornerstone for a proposed 838-meter tower that would be taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, which it said would be built within seven months. However, the reality is, even today the piece of land where it was said to be standing on has become a fishing pond. Beijing Times comments:
The report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China advocated a resolute crackdown on corruption to keep Party members clean and honest. Accordingly, the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China launched a powerful anti-corruption campaign to build upright and diligent Party and society.
An arbitral tribunal with widely contested jurisdiction will issue a ruling on July 12 on the South China Sea case unilaterally initiated by the Philippines, the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague said on Wednesday.
The G20 Summit scheduled for September in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, will mark another step forward for China in global governance. As a powerful group of the international community, especially in the fields of finance and investment, the G20 offers a rare opportunity for non-governmental organizations in China to help realize its global goals.
It was a year ago, on June 26, 2015, to be precise, when the US Supreme Court ruled that all states should issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples and recognize same-sex marriages in other jurisdictions.
That the barbarity took place during the holy month of Ramadan may make it particularly unacceptable to the Islamic community.
The July 1 demonstration in Hong Kong, an annual event organized by the opposition in the special administrative region since its return to Chinese sovereignty, will reportedly be led by Lam Wing-kee, a Hong Kong bookseller seized by mainland police in October for selling forbidden books to the mainland, Ching Cheong, who received a five-year prison sentence in Guangzhou in 2005 on charges of espionage, and Lau Shan-ching, who received a 10-year prison sentence for "rescuing" "mainland activists".
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