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Selling of facial recognition data must be made a no-no

[2019-12-02 00:00]

THE FACIAL DATA of individuals is for sale online in packages, and one can easily buy the facial information of over 5,000 people at the cost of 10 yuan ($1.4). People's Daily comments:

Duty of Hong Kong courts to uphold law

[2019-12-02 00:00]

That the courts in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region have rejected the bail applications of some detainees arrested by the police in the recent riots for the first time since the unrest began in June has been viewed as a sign that at last the courts are going to stop showing the rioters ex

Spy farce puts Australian media to shame

[2019-12-02 00:00]

The seemingly explosive spy exposé in Australia was shown on Friday to be what it always was, a damp squib, when the country's Daily Telegraph newspaper ran a report questioning the claims of Wang Liqiang, the self-proclaimed Chinese spy.

US has trouble stigmatizing Huawei as there are no grounds for it to do so

[2019-12-02 00:00]

For those Western countries looking at the issue objectively, whether to exclude Huawei from their 5G networks is not a question of national security, rather it is a question of whether an inclusive policy is to be followed to allow the development of next generation telecoms networks worldwide.

Loose monetary policy won't solve problems

[2019-12-02 00:00]

The People's Bank of China, the country's central bank, recently issued the China Monetary Policy report for the third quarter of 2019. The report says China will maintain its stable and prudent monetary policy, strengthen counter-cyclical regulation, make structural adjustment more effective, suita

Two easy ways to save some lives

[2019-12-02 00:00]

ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON, a male passenger suffered a heart attack on Beijing's Line 2 subway, and died about one hour later. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

Ill will behind rare earth alliance against China

[2019-11-28 00:00]

Editor's Note: The United States held talks with Australia recently to strengthen cooperation on critical minerals and rare earths, which is widely seen as a move to reduce its reliance on Chinese rare earths that constitute about 80 percent of the US' rare earth imports. Japan, too, has upped the a

Native place discrimination case promotes equal employment rights

[2019-11-28 00:00]

A COURT IN ZHEJIANG PROVINCE has announced its ruling in the country's first case of native place discrimination in job recruitment. The law is of great significance to the fight against discrimination and safeguard the equal right to employment. China Daily writer Wang Yiqing comments:

Double-dealing posturing of US does not go down well with its allies

[2019-11-28 00:00]

German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier was just speaking the truth in his defense of Berlin's decision not to ban Huawei from competing for contracts to build the country's 5G mobile networks over the weekend.

Leaked documents get distorted makeover

[2019-11-28 00:00]

The uncontrollable self-satisfaction of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo while citing reports on some leaked documents about the Chinese government's policies in Xinjiang as testament to China's "systematic repression" of Uygurs, during his meeting with reporters at the State Department on Tuesday,

Only balanced approach can restore peace in Middle East

[2019-11-28 00:00]

Rejecting a recent US decision to recognize Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories as legal settlements, foreign ministers of Arab countries on Monday warned Israel against annexing the Jordan Valley and parts of the occupied West Bank.

Peace paramount for Hong Kong

[2019-11-28 00:00]

Fueling hopes among ordinary residents that the situation in Hong Kong may have calmed at least temporarily, the Cross-Harbour Tunnel reopened on Wednesday and search teams sweeping the Hong Kong Polytechnic University campus for a second day found no rioters still holding out.

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