Dialogue suggests China, Japan can find a way out of impasse

That Beijing and Tokyo both underlined the need to take each other as a potential partner rather than a threat was an important outcome of their just concluded fourth high-level political dialogue.

Obligation to not waste food

Chinese people traditionally dine out with relatives and friends during festivals, but on such occasions a lot of food can be easily wasted as people order too many dishes.

Seeds of ecological conservation awareness now need nurturing

ZHENG NAIYUAN, A RURAL TEACHER IN XIUSHUI COUNTY, East China's Jiangxi province, strived to protect the Chinese yew for years on his own. It was due to his efforts and perseverance that a county-level natural protection area was established in 2010. Zheng received a Marsh Award for International Plant Conservation from Botanic Gardens Conservation International in 2014 and he has since become quite well-known. Thepaper.cn comments:

Marriage of interests the meat of the matter

YURUN FOOD GROUP, a Hong Kong-listed meat product manufacturer that has received government subsidies of more than HK$4 billion ($510 million) from 2005 to 2015, more than 46 percent of the company's total profits over that period, is struggling to restart some 20 projects in Northeast China's Liaoning province. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Monday:

Self-defense is more than just a 'zombie right'

ON SATURDAY, Shandong Provincial High People's Court began a retrial of Yu Huan, a 21-year-old man from Liaocheng, Shandong province, who killed a man when he stabbed four "debt collectors" who were trying to recover money his mother owed. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

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Xiongan a product of necessity, not whim

Perhaps because China is a large country, or its imbalanced economic development could give rise to unexpected contradictions, the country's leadership has decided to build a cluster of modern cities in northern China. One such cluster is Xiongan New Area, which will cover 100 square kilometers initially, and expand to 200 sq km in the mid term and 2,000 sq km in the long term.

When social media becomes a waste of time

I have had enough chicken soup stories on WeChat that some of my friends always feel excited about sharing with their WeChat peers. Their comments on these stories are so na?ve that it seems they have forgotten how they used to communicate with other people, friends included, before WeChat became a rage. They also seem to have forgotten how to cultivate their personality or temperament.

Restoring competition in digital economy

The digital economy is carving out new divides between capital and labor, by allowing one company, or a small number of companies, to capture an increasingly large market share. With "superstar" companies operating globally, and dominating markets in multiple countries simultaneously, market concentration in G20 economies has increased considerably in the past 15 years.

Complacency and arrogance hallmark of Abe's leadership

Hideo Onishi, a lawmaker from Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, has taken a lot of heat for his remark denigrating cancer patients. LDP lawmaker Junko Mihara had said passive smoking causes pain to employees with cancer during a party discussion on May 15 to regulate passive smoking in Japan's restaurants. In an apparent response, Onishi said cancer patients "do not have to work".

Police say gunman kills eight

BROOKHAVEN, Mississippi - A man who got into an argument with his estranged wife and her family over his children was arrested in a house-to-house shooting rampage in rural Mississippi that left eight people dead, including his mother-in-law and a sheriff's deputy.

MI5 launches internal probe over Manchester attack warnings

MANCHESTER - Britain's MI5 intelligence service launched an internal inquiry on Monday into whether vital clues were missed in the run-up to the Manchester suicide bombing, as police arrested another man in connection with the attack.