China Unicom to use cutting-edge tech for Winter Olympics

Virtual reality video streaming and facial recognition technologies will be used in the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, as China United Network Communications Group Co Ltd, the country's second-largest telecom carrier by mobile subscribers, scrambles to help build the event into a smart sports gathering enabled by cutting-edge communication technologies.

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Metal tariffs hit soda, beer

US soda and beer lovers might want to start stocking up, as the price for a can of fizzy drink is increasing under US President Donald Trump's tariffs on imported aluminum beginning in March.

Startup supporting young entrepreneurs

The Chinese word for "crisis" consists of two characters: danger and opportunity. These two ideas inspired Saman Pouyanmehr to create an international startup to help young people start their own business endeavors.

China will not lose heart in pursuit of better world

With the Trump administration firing a second barrage of tariffs - 25 percent tariffs on imports from China worth $16 billion - and China retaliating in kind, the possibility that the two countries are heading for a prolonged trade conflict has to be faced.

Washington isolated on Iran

The US Trump administration reinstated the first phase of sanctions on Iran on Tuesday as scheduled, prohibiting the Iranian government from purchasing US dollars, gold and other precious metals and prohibiting transactions related to Iran's currency or activities related to its sovereign debt.

Urbanization must be more rational to avoid repeating past mistakes

AT THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL FORUM on Sustainable Urban Development held recently, Xu Lin, director of the China Urban and Small Town Reform and Development Center, said in 20 years, 80 percent of China's population will be living in urban areas and sustainable urban development will undoubtedly be a big challenge. Legal Daily comments:

Not just polar bears will feel the heat

THE PLACE that has witnessed the fastest rise of temperature is not as might be thought a desert, but rather the Arctic. A meteorological station at Banak in the north of Norway within the Arctic Circle recorded a temperature of 32 C not long ago, the first time that it has recorded a temperature above 30 C, which is well above the average summer high of around 20 C. Beijing News commented on Thursday:

Protection not profits must be priority for relics

AIRBNB, an online short-term apartment renting platform, recently announced a contest in which four people and their guests would be able to sleep for a night on the Great Wall. China Youth Daily comments:

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China's economy can withstand tariff war

The Donald Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it will make good on its earlier threat to impose 25 percent tariffs on $16 billion worth of Chinese imports on Aug 23.

Education reform can solve myopia problem

Editor's note: The Ministry of Education and the National Health Commission have been soliciting public opinions till Aug 21 on a draft guideline to curb nearsightedness among schoolchildren. Two experts share their views with China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang on how to resolve China's myopia crisis. Excerpts follow: