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Op-Ed Contributors
China should learn lessons from the Dubai crisis and take concrete measures to prevent a similar crisis from happening in its speculation-ridden real estate sector.
Why is Asia still suffering from a "colonial" hangover - of judging everything from outsiders' perspective?
The country is at a favorable time to develop an institutional guarantee for the legality and equality of all religions.
To be more precise, it points to a deeper malaise: Diagnoses and treatment of people suffering from mental disorders.
After intense haggling over two new top posts, Herman van Rompuy was appointed president of the European Council, and Catherine Ashton, the foreign affairs high representative of the EU.
After nearly four years of stagnation in bilateral ties, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper will finally visit China from Dec 2 to 6, his first trip to the country since taking office in 2006.
Emerging East Asia's local currency bond market has snowballed in the last decade to more than $4 trillion, but there has not been a parallel increase in trading activities in most countries.
Increasing the role of domestic consumption is one of the key objectives of China's 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-10).
Next year will be a litmus test for China's macro-economy. China confronts a "dilemma" in a variety of fields.
Media organizations in wealthy countries regularly send forth reporters to find "victims of global warming".
Top Chinese search engine Baidu is expected to fully operationalize its Phoenix Nest advertising system tomorrow.
The core of low-carbon growth is the improvement of energy utilization and the transformation of the energy structure.
Sustainability has three traditional major pillars where it is needed to promote development. The economic dimension (profit), the environment dimension (planet) and the social dimension (people). I am adding a fourth "P": pro-activeness.
The government should try to set up a sound and standardized agricultural market as soon as possible to check speculation, ensure stability of prices and protect the interests of consumers and farmers.
Have Chinese become totally materialistic and mad about money? Is this behavior creating a deep moral crisis even as the country's GDP grows at breakneck speed?
Within a week of US President Barack Obama's visit to China, the US Department of Commerce decided to slap final countervailing duties (CVD) on the import of $2.6 billion worth of goods from China.
He Maochun has changed roles with aplomb, from farmer to professor, from sailor to government official, and from exporter who has traveled to 110 countries to a researcher on WTO.
Policymakers should embrace one of the cheapest ways of cutting air pollution that lies at the root of the problem: making buildings more efficient.
The emergence of an increasing number of problems and malpractices in the process of the rapid development of China's Internet has made it vital to build a binding legal framework to regulate the fast-growing online sector.
I keep coughing after a brief visit to a sizable developing nation - not because of a possible A(H1N1) infection but the continuous exposure to strong smell of fuel and pollutants on roads of the country, where 20-year-old obsolete cars rattled everywhere.
As world leaders are slated to gather in Copenhagen this month to find a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol, talks about climate change are gathering steam. But is climate change the most pressing threat for mankind?
I was appalled to read China Daily's piece reporting the humanitarian and social activities of US forces in Afghanistan.
Asia has rebounded fast from the depth of the global crisis. Initially, the region was hit extremely hard, with output in most countries shrinking by much more than even those nations at the epicenter of the crisis.
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