Storm dumps snow, cuts power

'Near-whiteout conditions' expected to hit US East Coast

India's all-women rail crew derail sexist attitudes

JAIPUR, India - Mahima Dutt Sharma rolls her eyes when men make excuses to gawk at her inside the booth where she checks tickets at India's only interstate train station run entirely by women.

'Ice wall' fails to freeze Fukushima's toxic water buildup

OKUMA, Japan - A costly "ice wall" is failing to keep groundwater from seeping into the stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, data from operator Tokyo Electric Power Co shows, preventing it from removing radioactive melted fuel at the site seven years after the disaster.

Chinese students take challenges at foreign colleges

OTTAWA - Canada's universities are opening their arms wider to international students, especially those from China, who are taking multiple challenges as well as enjoying the novelty of their overseas school life.

Ex-spy was exposed to 'nerve agent'

LONDON - Former Russian military intelligence colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter are in a coma after exposure to a suspected nerve agent in the British city of Salisbury.

Constitutional changes will enhance governance

The significance of the draft amendments to China's Constitution submitted to the top legislature for deliberation should not be underestimated, given they will advance law-based governance and modernize China's governance system.

Tillerson's trip will not harm China's relations with Africa

Ahead of his first official visit to Sub-Saharan Africa, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson confessed that the continent's rapid economic growth and fast-rising population mean the United States views Africa's future as "increasingly linked" to its own.

New retail to be a driver for the upgrading of economic growth

IN THE GOVERNMENT WORK REPORT he delivered to the National People's Congress, China's top legislature, on Monday, Premier Li Keqiang stressed consumption's fundamental role in driving economic growth, and urged governments of various levels to promote the development of a new type of consumption featuring "new retail". Southern Metropolis Daily comments:

Revitalization of Northeast key task

THE NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND REFORM COMMISSION, China's top economic policy planner, said that one of its key tasks is to tailor policies to help revitalize the rust belt region of Northeast China. Guangming Daily comments:

New TPP deal is a blow to US trade protectionism

In an apparent effort to revive the Trans-Pacific Partnership pact after the United States' withdrawal a year ago, the remaining 11 states are expected to sign a revamped trade deal on Thursday. Although the significance of the new deal, rebranded as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, is much diminished now it only represents 13.5 percent of the global GDP, compared with the previous 40 percent with the involvement of the US, the symbolic importance of the CPTPP has been bolstered as countries around the world feel an increasing urgency to cope with the US protectionism as well as the strong backlash that has emerged against globalization.

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