IMPORTS OF ENVIRONMENTALLY HAZARDOUS SOLID WASTE will end before the end of the year, and imports of solid waste that can be replaced by domestic resources will end by 2019, the State Council, China's Cabinet, announced on Thursday. Beijing Youth Daily comments:
THE PROVINCIAL EDUCATION AUTHORITIES of North China's Hebei province have issued an emergency notice on the management of school buses run by private kindergartens. Over the past two weeks four children in the province died after they were locked in school buses. West Metropolis Daily commented on Monday:
TWO URBAN VILLAGES in the southeast and northwest corners of Beijing - one that was known for its polluting low-end processing industries and the other for its poor living conditions - have been transformed into a 710,000-square-meter wetland park and a 290-hectare forest park. Beijing News comments:
Editor's note: When the Red Army, the predecessor of the People's Liberation Army, was engaged in the revolutionary war in the 1930s, its soldiers got less than 1 penny a day to buy nonstaple food and firewood.
US intelligence circles have one principle: Threat equals capability multiplied by motivation, and when either of the two factors has a value of zero, threat equals zero. According to the principle, in the face of a security risk, the subject's capability and motive both must be evaluated simultaneously, thoroughly.
Editor's note: The ongoing standoff between Chinese and Indian troops in China's Donglang area, arguably the biggest crisis facing the two countries since the 1962 war, started a month ago when Indian troops crossed into Chinese territory in the Sikkim section of the border, which was delimited in 1890 in the Convention Between Great Britain and China Relating to Sikkim and Tibet and has been recognized by both sides for decades.
In the last 60 years, the European Union has expanded from six members to 28, but the battle over the responsibilities of Brussels and individual EU states has not abated. The latest skirmish is over Brussel's eagerness to centralize the approval process for European companies' takeovers by foreign enterprises amid an explosion of Chinese investment in the EU.
It was the first time a large-scale parade had been staged as part of commemorations to mark the founding of the People's Liberation Army, which celebrates its 90th birthday on Tuesday.
President Xi Jinping's recent speech at a meeting of provincial and ministerial-level officials has been viewed as setting the tone for the political, ideological and theoretical foundations of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to be held later this year.
CHINA'S THREE MAJOR TELECOM CARRIERS - China Mobile Communications Corp, China United Network Communications Group Co and China Telecommunications Corp - announced on Thursday their decision to scrap domestic long-distance and roaming charges starting Sept 1. Thepaper.cn commented on Saturday:
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