THE BEIJING AUTHORITIES have reportedly already made initial plans to collect a congestion charge in Beijing, and they might start collecting the fee this year. A congestion charge won't ease the traffic, says a comment on cb.com.cn:
CHINA'S WANDA GROUP has opened a 20-billion-yuan ($3 billion) theme park in Nanchang, capital of East China's Jiangxi province, less than a month before the Shanghai Disney Resort opens. Eastday.com commented on Tuesday:
A DOMESTIC television advertisement has aroused controversy because it shows a black man jumping into a washing machine then coming out as an Asian. How could an enterprise be so ignorant as to make such a racially discriminatory advertisement? Comments Beijing News:
While secular stagnation for the global economy is still a debated hypothesis, for developing Asia, a downbeat view of its economies and policies is clearly overdone. While growth has slowed, it is still robust. At 6.5 percent annually over the last five years, Asia has remained the fastest growing region in the world. By comparison, developing countries outside Asia grew 3.4 percent and advanced countries only 1.6 percent annually during the same period.
Editor's note: After a 10-year silence, Han Chunyu, aged 42, an associate professor at Hebei University of Science and Technology, published a paper in the journal Nature Biotechnology about DNA-guided genome editing, which is a big breakthrough in research in this area. Han's story once again raises questions about how research funds are distributed in China.
The compulsory education for non-resident children in big cities is always a hot topic for debate at this time of year, because even as people call for greater fairness, the demand for school places in first- and second-tier cities is continually growing and, as a result, local education authorities apply ever stricter criteria for non-resident children's enrollment in their schools.
China's renowned economist Justin Yifu Lin, former chief economist of the World Bank, acquired a new hat at the end of April when he became the inaugural dean of the South-South Cooperation and Development Institute of Peking University.
Smoking kills. And the devastation it causes is especially alarming in China.
CHINA RESOLUTELY OPPOSES an investigation by the US International Trade Commission into complaints of alleged trade secret thefts by 40 Chinese steel companies, and should encourage its firms to legally defend themselves, said China's Commerce Ministry on Friday. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Monday:
SOME e-commerce stores pay people to write five-star comments to promote their business. The practice is detrimental to the domestic e-commerce industry, says Beijing News:
In a joint statement issued during US President Barack Obama's visit to Vietnam, the two countries vowed to strengthen their security and defense cooperation, and the US announced it was lifting its decades-long ban on weapons sales to Vietnam and promised to help boost the Asian country's military maritime power.
LIXIA DISTRICT OF JI'NAN CITY, capital of East China's Shandong province, has reportedly passed a new regulation that requires migrant workers to show a college diploma or their children will be prohibited from going to local primary schools. This is open discrimination, says a comment on Beijing News:
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