THE PHOTO OF A NOTICE posted by a pediatric department of a hospital in Tianjin has been widely spread online, as it said that its services had been suspended because all its pediatricians had fallen ill due to their extremely heavy workload. Beijing News comments:
HAVING PROVOKED outrage with an online customer questionnaire that listed Chinese regions as separate countries, the US hotel giant has announced it has suspended the questionnaires and is correcting the options. Thepaper.cn commented on Thursday:
Editor's note: In 2017, Beijing, which used to be troubled by smog during the winter, had 226 days of blue skies, 28 more than in 2016. Two experts share their views with China Daily's Yao Yuxin on how to evaluate the achievement and how to maintain the trend. Excerpts follow:
Clad in worn-out clothes, his hair covered with frost and his face blue with cold, a boy stands before his classmates who are making fun of his "white hat". He is a picture of embarrassment.
Real estate tax is a popular topic of discussion these days, with some people saying it is difficult to levy real estate tax in China because land property rights in the countries that have imposed such a tax belong to individuals, not to the State as in China.
On Tuesday, the House of Representatives in the United States passed two bills relating to Taiwan through voice vote. The Taiwan Travel Act (H.R.535) aims to encourage diplomatic visits between US and Taiwan officials at all levels, while bill H.R. 3320 directs the US secretary of state to develop a strategy to restore observer status for Taiwan in the Geneva-based World Health Organization.
The "last minute" decision by US telecoms carrier AT&T to drop a partnership deal with Huawei Technologies to sell the Chinese brand's smartphones in the United States, as reported on Wednesday, is the result of political pressure rather than business considerations.
The Lancang-Mekong Cooperation mechanism, which was officially inaugurated in 2016, seeks to harness the shared political will for deeper cooperation among the countries through which the world's 12th-longest river flows, to inject vitality into the development of this populous subregion, which, for historical reasons, remains comparatively less developed.
THE JIANGSU PROVINCIAL CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION has launched public interest litigation against Baidu, the largest search engine in China, charging that its two smartphone applications obtain information, such as monitoring users' phone calls, their location, and reading the text messages, among other things. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Wednesday:
A VIDEO showing a woman preventing the door of a high-speed train carriage from closing so her laggardly husband could board the train at Hefei, East China's Anhui province, on Friday, has sparked anger online. Ifeng.com comments:
A RECENT VIDEO clip showing a policeman in Changsha, Hunan province, beating a dog to death went viral online. The local police responded that they received reports about the dog attacking people so they had to take action. People's Daily comments:
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