Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Monday he would send a message to the world during his visit to Pearl Harbor in Hawaii that Japan will never repeat the atrocities of past wars.
There was a public outcry after media reports in April that the authorities in Wenzhou, East China's Zhejiang province, intended to charge residents a fee as high as one-third the value of their housing to renew their current land use rights when they expired. Recently, the Ministry of Land and Resources has announced the residents will not have to pay an extra fee to extend their land use rights, nor do they need to apply for an extension.
MINISTER OF TRANSPORT LI XIAOPENG recently said that overloaded trucks pose a serious danger to road safety and he advised revising the Criminal Law so that the overloading of trucks is included in the crime of dangerous driving and those driving overloaded trucks face criminal penalties. Beijing Times commented:
AN OFFICIAL OF THE FOOD AND DRUG BUREAU in Huanggang, Central China's Hubei province, reportedly "confiscated" some 36 bottles of cooking oil from a local grocery in the name of "investigating flawed samples". He has been suspended and an investigation has been launched. Beijing News commented on Monday:
A VISUALLY IMPAIRED resident in Beijing was boarding a bus with her guide dog when she was stopped by the conductor who said no dogs were allowed on board. With the help of other passengers, Zhou Lei finally persuaded the conductor to let her get on the bus, but during the journey the conductor kept saying that she shouldn't bring a dog on a bus. Beijing Times commented on Monday:
On Jan 20, 2017, Donald Trump will be inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States. I would hate to say "I told you so", but his election should not have come as a surprise. As I explained in my 2002 book Globalization and its Discontent, the policies we have used to manage globalization have sown the seeds of widespread disaffection. Ironically, a candidate from the same party that has pushed the hardest for international financial and trade integration won by promising to undo both.
Three audacious terrorist attacks on Dec 19 left the world horrified. Perhaps the most chilling of those attacks was the assassination of Russia's ambassador to Turkey Andrei Karlov in Ankara. The assassin, an off-duty police officer, pulled out a gun while Karlov was several minutes into a speech at an art exhibition and shot up to eight times, shouting "Don't forget Aleppo, Don't forget Syria".
On purpose or by mistake, Japan's Foreign Ministry announced on Dec 5 that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will visit Pearl Harbor on Monday and Tuesday, becoming the first head of government in office to do so.
From Aliens to Interstellar, Hollywood has long used suspended animation to overcome the difficulties of deep space travel, but the once-fanciful sci-fi staple is becoming scientific fact.
Ali Hribish stands by the Arch of Septimius Severus which dominates Libya's ancient city of Leptis Magna, brandishing letters of thanks for his efforts to protect the site.
A terminally ill six-year-old Dutch boy, who hoped to raise a few hundred euros by daring people to paint their nails has raised more than 2.5 million euros.
Queen Elizabeth II will pay tribute to inspirational unsung heroes in her Christmas Day broadcast to the Commonwealth on Sunday.
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