The official launch of the China-funded and built standard gauge railway in Kenya on Wednesday, which links its port city of Mombasa with the capital Nairobi, marks the beginning of a new era for the East African country's industrialization and economic development.
While it gained a bumper economic harvest for the United States in the Middle East, the first overseas trip by Donald Trump as the US president seems to have widened an already-existing schism with his country's European allies.
KONG LINGHUI, A FORMER OLYMPIC TABLE TENNIS CHAMPION and head coach of the Chinese national women's table tennis team, has been suspended after he was sued by a Singaporean casino, which is seeking to recover about 4.9 million yuan ($715,000) in gambling debts. Beijing News comments:
A JUDICIAL INTERPRETATION jointly issued by the Supreme People's Court and the Supreme People's Procuratorate on the management of people's personal information comes into effect on Thursday. Beijing Youth Daily comments:
TO ENSURE THEIR CHILDREN have a good rest during the four-hour noon break on the two days of the national college entrance exams, or gaokao, parents will often book hotel rooms for them. As a result many hotels in places where students sit the exams are hiking their room rates by huge amounts during the two days due to the high demand. Beijing Youth Daily comments:
Premier Li Keqiang began his four-day visit to Germany and Belgium on Wednesday, during which he is scheduled to attend the annual meeting with German chancellor and the 19th China-EU leaders' meeting.
Editor's note: China is the country of the largest express delivery service industry, with 100 million parcels delivered each day on average. But the fast expanding sector is also plagued by problems such as the stealing and selling of private information, unsustainable financing, and insufficient waste recycling. Four experts share their opinions with China Daily's Wu Zheyu on how to better regulate the courier service. Excerpts below:
Pascale Delcomminette, CEO of Belgium's Walloon Export and Foreign Investment Agency, said in a recent interview that an added advantage of her country's competitiveness is the ability to attract foreign investment. "We are a member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank," she said with pride in her voice ahead of Premier Li Keqiang's visit to Germany and Belgium from Wednesday to Friday, while highlighting her country' gateway position, mature market, openness and other merits.
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.
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.
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