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The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC), as a non-profit charity organization, has the obligation to keep all its activities transparent and let the public know how it manages its donations and where it has spent them.
Whether China will reach its goal of spending 4 percent of its GDP on education by 2012 will depend on whether the central government can get its policy implemented to the letter at the local level.
After 100 days of air strikes in Libya, the NATO alliance is showing signs of fatigue and discord with no end in sight to a conflict that the allies are determined to win.
There was no lack of words of praise in Communist Party of China General Secretary Hu Jintao's speech commemorating the Party's 90th birthday. Yet what truly distinguished Hu's speech rests somewhere else the sense of urgency for refining governance was rare, if not unprecedented.
Officials rarely used to criticize the media in the country, for they knew journalists played a constructive role in society. But times seem to have changed.
No matter how unwilling some might be to see it, people in China are confident that the Communist Party of China will lead them to an even brighter future.
Competing expectations of the Interna-tional Monetary Fund (IMF) leave little time for Christine Lagarde, the French finance minister, to celebrate her victory in the contest to lead the agency.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) will celebrate its 90th anniversary on July 1. This will be an important occasion on which to review what the Party has achieved in the past and what challenges it will face in the future.
The development of intra-Party democracy epitomizes the road the CPC has taken over the past 90 years, from a fledgling political entity to the world's largest ruling political force.
A political storm continues to gather over the South China Sea issue despite China's restraint and efforts to bring the disputes under control.
In an effort to avoid a possible escalation of tension between the two neighbors, an agreement has been reached between China and Vietnam to address the dispute over the South China Sea through peaceful means.
A higher minimum threshold for personal income tax is only a matter of time, as China's living standards improve along with its robust economic growth.