Gift of hindsight
2009-08-14 07:44:47
The controversial "Green Dam" software will "absolutely not be compulsorily installed on all computers" sold in China, says Minister of Industry and Information Technology Li Yizhong.
Why so nervous?
2009-08-13 07:45:27
It would be unfair to say, as some Chinese critics seem to suggest, that whole of Australia is suddenly into an anti-China campaign, by awarding some Xinjiang separatists a public platform after they masterminded a riot in Urumqi, capital city of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in early July.
With a pinch of salt
2009-08-13 07:45:27
Should, or should not, the country stick to the blanket ban on non-iodized salt? We do not know. Nor do the individual scientists who have bothered to try to find an answer.
All staff and no work
2009-08-12 07:50:19
Everybody's business is nobody's business. An overstaffed government department means not only waste of taxpayer's money but also total inefficiency. Worse, some bloated ones turn themselves into profit-making organs to provide payroll for their redundant staff.
Race against inflation
2009-08-12 07:50:19
The latest slump in new loans, a seemingly sign of credit tighting, demands a compelling explanation from policymakers about how firmly they will stick to the moderately loose monetary policy needed to boost economic growth.
Reduce wrong cases
2009-08-11 07:46:11
Innocent people being prosecuted and sentenced is the last thing a society with a mature rule of law should tolerate, but no judicial system can be free of wrong cases. What matters is a mechanism to reduce the rate of wrong cases to the minimum.
Significant round
2009-08-11 07:46:11
The 13th round of Sino-Indian border talks held from Friday through Saturday yielded no substantial result, but its significance should not be downplayed.
Killers on the road
2009-08-10 07:49:47
The scandal exposed about Shanghai's driving schools provides a clue to the number of traffic accidents on streets. About 47.2 percent of 1,199 people polled admitted to bribing their driving instructors.
Eloquent figures
2009-08-10 07:49:47
First and foremost, let us be thankful. At the very least, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) convened a special briefing to explain itself. That the NBS bothered to respond to people's suspicions is in itself commendable.
The Olympic legacy
2009-08-07 07:44:46
On Saturday when the Chinese commemorate the first anniversary of the Beijing Olympics, there would be plenty of rhetoric about legacies of the historic event.
Extradition message
2009-08-07 07:44:46
Whether Lai Changxing, dubbed the most wanted man for his involvement in China's most notorious smuggling case in the 1990s, would be successfully extradited from Canada and brought to justice is, in many ways, of particular significance to the campaign against corruption.
Pension for villagers
2009-08-06 07:47:51
Extending pension to rural residents is an important step towards an equal social security system. It is another milestone policy by the central government after the abolition of agricultural tax and launching of the rural medical care cooperative system.
