Ending road-use charge shows respect for public opinion

THE GOVERNMENT IN ZHANGBEI COUNTY, North China's Hebei province, announced on Friday that it will stop collecting the 50-yuan ($7.60) charge per person it had introduced to use a 150-kilometer scenic road. Beijing News commented on Saturday:

Give empty buildings a new life

A NUMBER OF GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS in some provinces remain unused years after completion. Cnhubei.com commented on Saturday:

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Poverty aid is not meant to be used as a dowry

SOME STATE-LEVEL poverty-stricken counties are reportedly limiting the dowries grooms can offer to would-be brides. Beijing News commented on Saturday:

Rectify police behavior to let justice be seen in every case

How should police officers behave in the execution of their duties?

Tightening vaccine control

According to an announcement by the Supreme People's Procuratorate on Thursday, 125 people have been arrested for their involvement in the recent vaccine scandal, and 37 people are being investigated for crimes involving abuses of their official power.

Tsai's only sensible option is to endorse Consensus

Tsai Ing-wen, chairwoman of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan, who will lead the island over the next four years, resorted to rhetorical ambiguity in Friday's inauguration speech.

US' rebalancing will lose its market

US President Barack Obama has merely half a year to go before leaving office, and to consolidate his administration's strategy of rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific before leaving office, he is visiting Vietnam and will attend the G7 Summit in Japan.

Manila pretending to be blind to historical facts

The Philippines has initiated arbitration proceedings on the South China Sea through the United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration. Its No.1 and No.2 arbitration requests are to let the court rule that China's historical rights in the "nine-dash line" area of the South China Sea are against the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which was concluded in 1982, so as to deny the legality of China's interests.

Missed opportunity to seek solutions to common challenges

On Friday, Japan's Foreign Ministry released the agenda of the G7 summit meeting, which the island country will host this week.

Samsung partners with China's Alipay

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has struck a partnership with Chinese payment service Alipay, to expand Samsung Pay in the world's largest smartphone market.

Regulator tightens rule on mutual fund risky investments

China's top securities regulator said on Friday it will tighten regulation on subsidiaries of the country's mutual funds, to curb the explosive growth in areas of risky investments that it says were "blindly expanded" and that analysts say exist in a regulatory void.