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.

Shark leaps into boat, lands on Australian fisherman

CANBERRA, Australia - A 73-year-old Australian fisherman said on Monday that he caught a far bigger fish than he hoped for when a 2.7-meter great white shark leapt into his boat, knocking him off his feet.

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Xi offers flood victims help, condolences

President Xi Jinping sent a message of condolence to his Sri Lankan counterpart Maithripala Sirisena on Sunday after flooding and a landslide left more than 150 people dead.

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Qualcomm powers up for chip JV

US chip giant Qualcomm Inc announced on Friday it will set up a new joint venture in China to build chips for entry-level smartphones, in a move to complement its existing high-end product portfolios.

Experts say China's financial position robust

Concerns about China's financial stability are somewhat exaggerated and there is no need to read too much into a single agency's revised view of the economy, a number of leading credit rating experts said on Friday.