Experts promote concepts of green living in city spaces

Building a green living environment is not just about parks and trees, according to experts at the Ninth Global Conference on Health Promotion in Shanghai on Monday.

Giving his village a voice

There are thousands of writers in China, but very few are like Qin Taixiang.

Growing pains

During the summer, about 160,000 tourists from lower neighboring areas swarmed into the mountain town of Moudao to enjoy its temperate climate and avoid the heat.

Mirroring the past

As I was heading to the train station after leaving Moudao the faces of many people I had met there came into my mind, one after another. The cab driver turned on the radio, which was playing a sad song: "My dear friend, please don't cry," the lyrics said. When the words came round for the second time, I tried to hold back my tears, but couldn't.

Continued support for peace process in Myanmar

The intense fighting that broke out between Myanmar's government forces and the members of three armed groups on Sunday near the border with China has shown that the road to national reconciliation in Myanmar remains long and tortuous.

Protectionism not a solution

At the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Economic Leaders' Meeting in Lima, Peru, leaders from the member economies and participating enterprises expressed their concerns over the emerging trend of trade protectionism.

Supervision of live webcasts needed to curb charity cheats

KUAISHOU, A LIVE BROADCAST APP, recently announced it was permanently deleting 21 registered accounts, as the owners were involved in a charity fraud in which they broadcast videos of themselves giving money to poor people, but after the filming took the money back. Their fraudulent deeds deserve legal punishments, not only the deletion of their Kuaishou accounts, says Southern Metropolis Daily:

Student labor shows dark side of e-commerce

SOME 240 VOCATIONAL SCHOOL SOPHOMORES majoring in transportation management in Xi'an in Northwest China's Shaanxi province were reportedly sent to a local express company as interns, but all they did was sort packages. Southern Metropolis Daily commented on Monday:

Colleges in the wrong making competitions out of poverty

SOME COLLEGES in Yunnan province in Southwest China have, probably unintentionally, turned the application process for scholarships for poor students into a sort of competition. Beijing News commented on Monday:

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Politics over market economy must end

Whether or not the Unites States and the European Union will honor the commitment they had made when China acceded to the World Trade Organization 15 years ago will become a touchstone for the US and the EU leaderships' credibility.

Online shopping boom vs courier services

Did you purchase goods on Singles Day, the online shopping carnival on Nov 11? If so, are you still waiting for the goods to be delivered to you?