Editor's note: A growing number of teachers hesitate to discipline students for bad behavior in the classroom, fearing it could be construed as physical abuse. In the education guidelines it issued on July 9, the State Council, China's Cabinet, said detailed regulations would be worked out to ensure teachers can discipline disobedient, unruly students. Two experts share their views on the issue with China Daily's Yao Yuxin. Excerpts follow:
US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo announced on July 8 a "Commission on Unalienable Rights" has been established to advise the State Department on human rights based on the principles of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The second China International Import Expo, which is set to be larger in scale and better in quality than its inaugural version last year, will inject new vitality and give impetus to China's further reform and opening-up and its steps to widen market access, commerce ministry officials said on Friday.
In a factory of Sany Heavy Industry Co Ltd, China's leading machinery equipment maker, robots are working alongside human workers.
China National Uranium Corp Ltd, a subsidiary of China National Nuclear Corp, announced that it has purchased 68.62 percent of the Rossing uranium mine in Namibia from mining giant Rio Tinto, the company said on Thursday.
Editor's Note: The State Council Information Office of the People's Republic of China published a white paper titled Equality, Participation and Sharing: 70 Years of Protecting the Rights and Interests of Persons with Disabilities in the PRC. Following is the full text:
WASHINGTON - Former soldier Mark Esper was sworn in as US secretary of defense on Tuesday after earning Senate confirmation, filling the country's longest Pentagon leadership vacuum as Washington faces mounting tensions with Iran and struggles to end the long-running Afghanistan war.
Police departments in the United States are increasingly using facial recognition technology to catch criminals, but the software has come under fire by experts who say it has a relatively low success rate, is prone to racial and gender bias, and could lead to wrongful arrests.
CARACAS, Venezuela - Caracas and other parts of Venezuela on Monday were hit by a massive power cut that the government blamed on an "electromagnetic attack".
JOHANNESBURG - Every week a group of bubbly South African teens crowd into a studio to play hip-hop music on their community radio show and trade views on the scourge of neighborhood gun crime.
TOKYO - The countdown for the Tokyo Olympics has hit 365 days.
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