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  • Debate: Left-behind kids

    2011-11-07 07:52

    A recent widely circulated photograph showing a girl taking care of her baby cousin at a class reflects the plight of left-behind children. Three experts discuss how their lot can be improved.

  • Helping others to help ourselves

    2011-11-05 08:22

    China's aid to needy African countries is justified because it reflects its commitment to the rest of the world as a responsible country.

  • How to improve China studies in Tagore's land

    2011-11-05 08:22

    Despite 2,000 years of interactions, the rapid growth in business ties during the past two decades and the reemergence of India and China in the global arena, India has failed to produce first-class institutions and scholars of China.

  • Time the West stopped being obstinate

    2011-11-05 08:22

    For all its unwieldiness and amorphous sense of purpose, the G20 represents the beginnings of an understanding, as necessary as it is reluctant, that a global economy with new growth sources must have a new structure of governance.

  • The revolt of the debtors

    2011-11-04 15:55

    Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou's call to hold a referendum on the rescue package agreed at the eurozone summit has profound implications for European governance. It may also determine the future of the euro.

  • US-Iran conflicts could intensify

    2011-11-04 08:06

    Washington's allegation against Teheran for plotting the Saudi ambassador's assassination is a prelude to tougher US actions against Iran.

  • How to deal with West's debt

    2011-11-04 08:06

    As Europe's economy remains on the brink, the idea of a "debt brake" is one of the most important policy tools to get fiscal policy under control.

  • Rule of law fully founded

    2011-11-04 08:06

    Governing the country according to the law and building a socialist state with rule of law are fundamental strategies for running the country under the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

  • Culture will be powered up

    2011-11-03 08:11

    To build itself into a cultural power, China faces the urgent task of safeguarding its "cultural security", strengthening its soft power and boosting the international influence of its culture.

  • The other side of foreign brands

    2011-11-03 08:11

    Many Chinese people love foreign goods, especially reputable brands. The wealthy flock to Paris, New York and Hong Kong snapping up goods ranging from bags and jewelry to milk powder.

  • The clock is ticking fast

    2011-11-03 08:11

    The gathering force of public protests is the popular expression of an obvious fact: that growing economic uncertainty, market volatility and mounting inequality have reached a point of crisis.

  • Make road safety the new traffic mantra

    2011-11-03 08:11

    Road crashes are not just random accidents. They are indicative of a much larger problem. In China, road crashes rank only behind drowning as the leading killer of children between the age of 5 and 14.

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