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With the world's population expected to reach seven billion next month, sustainable development has become an ever more urgent issue, one that is intertwined with the challenges of water scarcity, energy shortages, global health issues, food security and so on.
The cracking of the biggest case ever involving the production and sale of recycled edible oil from swill, points not just to health hazards from eating food cooked with such oil. It also raises the question of how such oil can be reused in a friendly manner.
China and Libya have turned the page to a new chapter in their friendly relations, as Beijing officially recognized the National Transition Council (NTC) as representative of the Libyan people on Monday night.
All of a sudden, it seems academic freedom has become a justification for the malfeasance of cultural relics experts.
In addition to paying tribute to the nation's teachers, it seems to have become a regular practice around the annual Teachers' Day for the media and society to show concern about the pressures they face.
While the Untied States and the rest of the world were preparing to mark the 10th anniversary of the Sept 11, 2001 attacks on the US this week, two terrorist attacks in India and Pakistan on Wednesday have reinforced the fact that the world is no safer than it was 10 years ago.
Things seem to be taking a dramatic turn in the dispute over the oil leak at Peng Lai 19-3 in the Bohai Bay.
Three years ago, the collapse of Lehman Brothers caught global investors off guard before galvanizing the world community into unprecedented joint efforts to deal with the worst global financial crisis in more than 70 years.
We can imagine the pressure gathering upon the judges of the second-instance court deliberating the dispute over an alleged traffic accident in Tianjin municipality.
The Information Office of the State Council issued a White Paper on Tuesday to elaborate on China's commitment to the path of peaceful development. It sends a strong message to the outside world: China does not seek hegemony and is a reliable stakeholder in pursuit of world peace and development.
It is a pity that the World Trade Organization (WTO) has once again supported punitive measures that fail to reduce US tire imports but hurt China's legitimate trading interests to accommodate domestic political pressure in the United States.
Many people in this country believe that falling in love will keep them young. But the newly published 2010 report on Chinese people's physical health sent another warning: if you don't move you will get old faster.
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