Trax bets on AI to gain edge in China market

Trax, a company that provides digital connection between consumer goods companies and retailers by applying AI image recognition to retail management, has announced its entrance into the Chinese market.

HK returning officer upheld election rules

About a dozen radical supporters of Hong Kong separatism forced their way into the conference room where the Eastern District Council was to meet on Tuesday afternoon, causing the meeting to be canceled. It seems the mob's real target was Anne Teng Yu-yan, the returning officer who disqualified Agnes Chow as a candidate in the Legislative Council by-election to be held in March, because she rightly deemed her nomination to be invalid as Chow's party advocates "democratic self-determination with independence as an option".

Muji's map mistake need not impede thaw in ties

Immediately after Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe indicated his eagerness to improve his country's relations with China, Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono made a visit to Beijing that was widely interpreted as a sign of a long overdue thaw in ties.

Crackdown on criminal gangs will be tonic for healthy business environment

THE SUPREME PEOPLE'S COURT and the Supreme People's Procuratorate have issued a notice instructing the judicial authorities to strike heavy blows in the fight against Mafia-like gangs, and take resolute actions to dig up the soil in which their criminal activities take root and rip up the umbrellas protecting them. Beijing News comments:

Sorting garbage can help remove toxic plastic

THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND REFORM COMMISSION, China's top economic planning body, is soliciting public opinions on how to better prevent and control the pollution caused by plastic waste. Beijing News commented on Thursday:

Subsidy offers encouragement to tie the knot

A WEDDING consumption subsidy system has been launched on a trial basis in Shanxi and Anhui provinces in order to encourage couples to tie the knot and promote rational spending on weddings. Beijing News comments:

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China's rise proves naysayers wrong

China's recently released 2017 data on gross domestic product confirm it: the country's dramatic rise, with the concomitant increase in its global economic relevance, is not slowing down.

Northeastern region still has revival potential

For almost 15 years the Chinese government has been making efforts to revive the old industrial base in Northeast China. But except for a real estate boom several years ago, the efforts have not reversed the downward economic trend of the northeastern provinces of Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning.

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Which country is the real threat to world stability, it's not China

The State of the Union address delivered by US President Donald Trump on Tuesday and the National Security Strategy and National Defense Strategy unveiled by his administration in the past month have all painted China as a rival or threat.

Trump's 'clarity' about adversaries shows US is still stuck in the past

In what was part elegy of remembrance for days now past and part call for action so they might be relived, US President Donald Trump delivered his first State of the Union address on Tuesday.