Neither the Chinese nor the United States military backed off from where they stood in previous exchanges over the South China Sea issue.
At a press conference during his recent visit to Canada, Foreign Minister Wang Yi responded to a Canadian journalist who criticized China's human rights.
THE PARENTS OF PUPILS at a primary school in the Xicheng district of Beijing told the media their children suffer from health problems, which they blame on the school's plastic running track. Ifeng.com comments:
REPORTS SHOW that State-owned enterprises have purchased 27 of the top 50 most expensive pieces of land for commercial development nationwide. They did it despite the fact that discipline requires them to exit from the realty industry. It is time to deepen the SOE reform and better regulate them, says Beijing News
A HEAVY RAINSTORM on Wednesday flooded Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei province, into Venice, despite the local government's heavy investment in upgrading the city's drainage system. Beijing Times says:
The China-US relationship today is probably at another defining moment. How we direct it now will have far-reaching consequences. Both countries have a big stake in the choices we are going to make. Whether or not we will be able to make the right choices depends on a few key factors.
The government is serious about cutting the country's overcapacity, yet seldom do people consider how difficult it is for China to press ahead with supply-side reform at a time when the global economy is recovering slowly.
This year's World Environment Day on Sunday puts the spotlight on the illegal trade in wildlife. The problem has particular significance in Asia, which is the destination for most of the ivory taken from 20,000 to 25,000 elephants and the horns of more than 1,200 rhinos killed in Africa every year. Demand in the region is driven by fast growing middle and upper classes with an appetite for exotic pets, décor, food and fashion.
Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has once again postponed the country's consumption tax hike.
Chinese aviation firm AVIC International Holding Corp has completed the acquisition of AIM Altitude, a Britain-based aircraft cabin interior supplier, for an undisclosed amount, from the London based private equity firm TowerBrook.
Taobao, an online platform of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, has acquired 1.861 billion shares from Suning Commerce Group for 28.2 billion yuan ($4.28 billion), making it the second-biggest shareholder of the country's largest home appliances retailer with a stake of just under 20 percent.
Global equipment manufacturer Honeywell International Inc sees China as a key market in the evolution of the industrial internet of things, according to the company's top executives who said the group can play a leading role in its development on the mainland.
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