Cross-regional lawsuit test

The procuratorate of Wuxi, East China's Jiangsu province, recently filed a lawsuit in the city's intermediate people's court demanding compensation from the authorities of Yangpu district, Shanghai, for dumping the district's household garbage in Wuxi.

Tsinghua has to find better ways to attract international students

THE COUNTRY'S PRESTIGIOUS TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY has come under fire for its 2017 international undergraduate admission requirements, which many have criticized as being "preferential" because they only require foreign applicants under the age of 25 to have a high-school diploma and pass the Level 5 of the HSK language test. Xiong Bingqi, deputy director of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, commented on Wednesday:

Academicians should not get to hog resources

ON SATURDAY, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced that Chen Ning Yang, winner of the 1957 Nobel Prize for Physics, and Yao Qizhi, recipient of the 2000 Turing Award, have been admitted as academicians as they have renounced their US citizenships and are now Chinese citizens. China Youth Daily comments:

If public dancing is a disturbance, it breaks the law

BEIJING'S NEWLY revised regulations on mass fitness will be introduced next month. It will strictly regulate any exercise activities in public places that might create a disturbance. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Thursday:

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US muscle flexing not a cure to DPRK issue

China will not import coal from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for the rest of 2017, the Ministry of Commerce said on Saturday. The ministry's decision to suspend coal imports is in line with the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2321, which was adopted on Nov 30 to tighten sanctions on the DPRK in response to its fifth nuclear test in September.

Putting Asia's savings to work in region

As Asia has developed, it has been exporting its savings, through a trade surplus with the United States, and re-importing them, in the form of direct and portfolio investment via New York and London - a process that has created severe, though largely overlooked, financial tensions.

Treat the mentally ill well for our own sake

Incidents of mentally ill people attacking others have increased. A few days ago, an aggressive customer allegedly beheaded a noodle shop owner following an argument over the price of a bowl of noodle in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province. And the tragic incident has once again raised public concern over how to cope with people with mental health problems.

Lessons can still be learned from Nixon's historic trip 45 years ago

Tuesday marked the 45th anniversary of the historic trip to China by US president Richard Nixon, a trip that ended more than two decades of hostilities between the two nations and a trip that Nixon called "a week that changed the world".

Code of conduct talks create conditions for consensus

At a news conference after the ASEAN foreign ministers' meeting on Tuesday, Philippine Foreign Secretary Perfecto Yasay said the South China Sea issue is not the "sum-total" of relations between the Philippines and China, and the Philippines has decided to focus on the bigger picture of its relations with China.

Tsinghua right to try and enroll more international candidates

TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY has been facing criticism for its 2017 admissions requirements for foreign applicants. The previously required entrance examination has been canceled, and international students may now apply for undergraduate studies if they have a high-school diploma and have passed level 5 of the HSK Chinese language test. China Youth Daily comments:

Justice based on evidence

The Supreme People's Court issued a guideline on Tuesday requiring courts at all levels to base their rulings on sound evidence and promote the establishment of an effective mechanism to prevent and correct miscarriages of justice.