Benefits of cheap dishes, easy to choose

TAKE-OUT SERVICES PROVIDED BY SERVICE APPS such as Ele.me and Baidu Inc's Waimai have become popular among Chinese citizens especially youngsters. Beijing Youth Daily says this shows there is demand for streamlined, simple catering services:

Little adults have lost their childhoods

LITTLE WEI, 5, now earns over 10,000 yuan ($1,600) every month as a child model. The girl in Dongguan in South China's Guangdong province was sent to modeling school at the age of 2. Southern Metropolis Daily commented on Monday:

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Fidel Castro dies, but spirit lasts

The death of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, the founder of the Cuban Communist Party and Cuban socialist cause, is a great loss to the Cuban and Latin American people as well as to the world socialist development.

The Achilles' heel of Trump's economics

US president-elect Donald Trump's economic strategy is severely flawed. He wants to restore growth via deficit spending in a country with a chronic shortfall in savings, which points to a further compression in national savings, making a widening of an already outsize trade gap all but inevitable.

Posts in world bodies reflect rising stature

China's Vice-Minister for Public Security Meng Hongwei was elected president of the International Criminal Police Organization earlier this month, becoming first the Chinese official to hold the post. Meng is one among the increasing number of Chinese officials holding offices in international agencies, such as Margaret Chan, director-general of World Health Organization.

Goal of boosting Chinese soccer is great chance for Germany

President Xi Jinping is a soccer fan and so is German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and during the past three years, they have been making consistent efforts to expand their two countries' soccer partnership.

Working together to spur economic transformation

Twenty-six universities in Guangdong province, Hong Kong and Macao have formed an alliance aimed at facilitating scientific research cooperation and jointly cultivating talent for economic transformation.

Italian fashion school expands to Guangzhou

Milan-based fashion school Istituto Secoli has opened a new branch in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, to help fill the need for more pattern-making talent in China's fashion industry.

Joint lab produces advanced technology

Dalian Maritime University in Northeast China's Liaoning province is home to a beacon of international cooperation.

Innovative course aims to nurture strategic talent

An experimental new course aimed at nurturing bilingual or multilingual talent, with a focus on the humanities, has been launched at China's prestigious Tsinghua University.

Inside a department steeped in history

Tsinghua University's Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures was set up in 1926. Famous alumni include distinguished scholars and university professors such as Cao Yu, Qian Zhongshu and Ji Xianlin, who are all well known in their respective fields.