It's time Japanese spoke truth about history

Although Haruki Murakami mentions the Nanjing Massacre only a few times in his latest, thousand-page novel Killing Commendatore, the book and the author have drawn the ire of right-wing forces in Japan. In fact, Japan's mainstream news portals are full of criticisms against the novel.

Xiongan New Area offers foreign investors fresh opportunities

About four decades ago, Shenzhen was a small fishing town with about 30,000 residents immediately north of Hong Kong. Today, it has grown into a high-tech economic powerhouse, covering about 2,000 square kilometers with about 11 million people - which is roughly the population of Belgium - China's answer to Silicon Valley in the United States.

Positive and fruitful talks lay foundations for future

The just concluded meeting between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Donald Trump struck a strong and welcome note of certainty in the relations between China and the US.

Environment information matters

After a local petroleum chemical plant in Chengdu, capital of Southwest China's Sichuan province, introduced a public air quality monitoring system for its production area last year, people's concerns about emissions from the plant have decreased significantly.

Courts should know claiming compensation is not blackmail

ON FRIDAY, GUANGDONG PROVINCIAL HIGH PEOPLE'S COURT acquitted Guo Li, who had been convicted and imprisoned for the crime of blackmail in January 2010 after he asked for 3 million yuan ($434,973) in compensation from a dairy company whose milk was found to have been contaminated with melamine, which he said was responsible for his 2-year-old daughter's kidney problems. Beijing News comments:

Response to public concerns essential

ON FRIDAY, THE LUZHOU MUNICIPAL AUTHORITIES HELD A PRESS CONFERENCE to announce the conclusions of an investigation into the death of Zhao Xin, a 14-year-old middle school student who was found dead at the foot of his dormitory building on April 1. According to the autopsy results and relevant investigations, it was concluded that Zhao died after falling from the fifth floor and that rumors he was beaten to death by the sons of five officials were groundless. That rumor had triggered a lot of public rage. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

Local officials should not flout judicial rulings

AS EARLY AS February 2009, the local court of Tianxin in Changsha, capital of Central China's Hunan province, ruled that the Wujialing sub-district office should pay its debt of 1.7 million yuan ($246,484) plus a late payment penalty to a technological company. However, the latter did not implement the ruling until the court published the incident on its official micro blog account. Gmw.cn comments:

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Xi's visit cements better Sino-US relationship

As expected, President Xi Jinping and US President Donald Trump worked to forge personal trust and a working partnership during their just-concluded talks in Florida.

TV drama highlights real-life graft cases

In a luxuriously decorated big house, a prosecutor opens a refrigerator. Its cold interior, up to the farthest corner, is lined with wads of currency notes. He lifts the mattress of a double bed. Beneath it is laid out a bed of hard cash. Then he removes the front of a false wall only to encounter a neatly stacked up real wall of yuan.

A new area of experiments and hopes

Apart from accommodating the "non-capital functions" of Beijing, Xiongan New Area can also explore a sustainable development path that strikes a balance between maintaining economic growth and curbing property prices, as well as protecting the environment - which, in other words, is the new normal of moderate but sustainable and eco-friendly economic growth.

Worrying revival of imperial rescript as educational tool

In response to a question from a lawmaker about the use of the Imperial Rescript on Education, Japan's Cabinet said on March 31 that use of the rescript as material for learning is not denied as long as it is in a manner that does not violate the Constitution, the Basic Law of Education and other legal provisions.