Santiago stands firm but for ...
2010-03-05 07:51:13
I was awoken from a heavy sleep by the characteristic sly shaking of a tremor. I leapt from my bed in the dark and ran to hold up the glass cabinet in the dining room, as I usually do during tremors in Santiago, Chile.
Cut the red tape at schools
2010-03-05 07:51:13
Divesting our schools from the grip of bureaucracy is an essential first step toward modernizing our primitive education system. If this step is not taken, the nation's ambition of building world-class colleges will remain simply wishful thinking.
In search of the right energy efficiency
2010-03-04 07:47:14
Like many countries in the developing world, China faces a series of fundamental dilemmas related to energy and electricity use.
Strive for energy goal
2010-03-04 07:46:45
The lawmakers will stand firm on the country's goal of cutting energy intensity by 20 percent between 2006 and 2010.
Time to make amends
2010-03-04 07:46:45
Beijing has, at many times in the past, showed sincerity and made concrete efforts to salvage Sino-US ties from deteriorating.
E-waste heap growing
2010-03-03 07:40:42
Every coin has two sides. Yet we often see one and ignore the other.
The importance of China's second opening up
2010-03-03 07:41:16
The most important thing to happen in China in recent decades but receive little attention is the country's "internal opening up".
Iran offers US a learning experience
2010-03-02 07:47:17
The United States has been mobilizing its massive foreign influence to impose new sanctions on Iran. But can new sanctions really resolve the Iranian nuclear issue?
Lesson for all carmakers
2010-03-02 07:46:21
The press conference Toyota chief Akio Toyoda held on short notice yesterday in Beijing highlighted the increasing importance of the Chinese auto market.
Raise school efficiency
2010-03-02 07:46:21
Removing bureaucracy from the school system is the key to the current education reform to make schools efficient so they can cultivate talent needed for economic development and social progress.
Is there a Chinese model?
2010-03-01 11:47:30
Since last year Chinese intellectuals have been heatedly debating whether there is such a distinct Chinese model for development - and, if so, what are its contents and is it transferable for other countries?
The paradigm and its future
2010-03-01 11:39:14
In 2009, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao stressed during a speech at Cambridge University that China has been a "learning state" since its reform and opening-up. Learning"" in this context has two connotations.
