THE REUTERS-QUOTED US STATE DEPARTMENT official was correct in seeing the Istanbul Process meeting in Beijing as "a real demonstration of China's commitment to Afghanistan".
The foreign ministers' conference on the Istanbul Process is the first large international conference sponsored by China on reconstruction in Afghanistan and also the first international conference held after the formation of Afghanistan's new government.
History rarely moves in ways simple enough to be wholly comprehensible when the events take place. What observers and commentators make of what is happening in Hong Kong is not, in any complete sense, what history will eventually make of it.
Most of the emerging world should take the end of the US Federal Reserve's third phase of quantitative easing in its stride.
Even until a few weeks ago, the majority of Chinese people believed that the Ebola epidemic, which has claimed more than 4,900 lives, mostly in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, was too far from home to worry about.
Comment on "Don't leave our lonely elders to die in the dark" (China Daily, Oct 29)
China's economic transformation has given society a good opportunity to pay more attention to the other aspects of life, which have been ignored for long, such as knowledge, culture and morality, says an article in Yangtze Evening News. Excerpts:
The government needs to allocate more funds for elderly care homes and encourage private enterprises to operate them to tackle the increasing aging population problem, says an article on guancha.gmw.cn. Excerpts:
The greatest quarterback rivalry in NFL history began quietly with plenty of empty seats on a cloudy, cool and windy afternoon at Foxboro Stadium on September 30, 2001.
Big-hitting Belgian Nicolas Colsaerts fired a superb eight-under 64 on Friday to take a one-shot lead after the second round of the BMW Masters in Shanghai.
LeBron James struggled as the New York Knicks spoiled his Cleveland homecoming on Thursday night.
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