Mobile payment technology has indeed made life convenient for people, but it has also given the country's anti-corruption watchdog a headache.
No nation can pursue modernization by giving its traditional culture a complete burial, as China once attempted half a century ago.
Twelve countries, including the United States, Japan, Singapore and Vietnam, signed the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement on Oct 5 after five years of negotiations. Since the countries together make up 40 percent of the world GDP, the TPP will have a big influence on China and the global economy.
President Xi Jinping's arrival in Singapore on Friday comes amid concerted efforts to upgrade a bilateral free trade agreement and as China's Chongqing has been chosen to be the location for the third intergovernmental project - an urbanization development project - between the two nations
Singapore is now the second largest offshore renminbi center after Hong Kong, and still has huge potential for growth in the cross-border renminbi business, according to Stephen Kiang Wah Lee, executive director of global trade product management at DBS Bank Ltd.
The joint business park initiative being planned by China and Singapore in western China reflects deepened cooperation between the two governments, experts say.
Singapore's Immigration and Checkpoints Authority said in a statement that it will extend the enhanced immigration automated clearance system service - known as eIACS - to eligible holders of Chinese passports from Nov 16.
It is not the first time Chinese politicians from both sides of the Taiwan Straits have chosen to meet in Singapore. That was in April 1993 when the heads of the respective liaison organizations in Beijing and Taipei came together in the Lion City.
China criticized the United States for a lack of "integrity and transparency" as the Pentagon chief visited a US aircraft carrier in the South China Sea.
China is willing to deepen pragmatic cooperation with Liberia and help it to develop and reduce poverty, Premier Li Keqiang said when meeting with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in Beijing on Thursday.
Lawmakers are proposing that increased tax reductions be given for charitable donations in order to encourage more contributions.
Anti-tobacco activists called on legislators to plug loopholes for tobacco sponsorship in the draft of China's first-ever charity law, which just finished its first reading.
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