THE PROVINCIAL EDUCATION AUTHORITIES of North China's Hebei province have issued an emergency notice on the management of school buses run by private kindergartens. Over the past two weeks four children in the province died after they were locked in school buses. West Metropolis Daily commented on Monday:
TWO URBAN VILLAGES in the southeast and northwest corners of Beijing - one that was known for its polluting low-end processing industries and the other for its poor living conditions - have been transformed into a 710,000-square-meter wetland park and a 290-hectare forest park. Beijing News comments:
Editor's note: When the Red Army, the predecessor of the People's Liberation Army, was engaged in the revolutionary war in the 1930s, its soldiers got less than 1 penny a day to buy nonstaple food and firewood.
US intelligence circles have one principle: Threat equals capability multiplied by motivation, and when either of the two factors has a value of zero, threat equals zero. According to the principle, in the face of a security risk, the subject's capability and motive both must be evaluated simultaneously, thoroughly.
Editor's note: The ongoing standoff between Chinese and Indian troops in China's Donglang area, arguably the biggest crisis facing the two countries since the 1962 war, started a month ago when Indian troops crossed into Chinese territory in the Sikkim section of the border, which was delimited in 1890 in the Convention Between Great Britain and China Relating to Sikkim and Tibet and has been recognized by both sides for decades.
There may be no better example of the Chinese diplomatic saying "Harmony benefits both, while confrontation hurts" than the China-Philippines relationship.
Broadcast by China Central Television from July 17, the documentary Carrying Reform Through to the End takes a comprehensive look at China's deepening reform.
THIRD-PARTY MOBILE PAYMENTS have become a way of life for many Chinese residents, and China will move further ahead in this regard despite the challenges, Bai Ming, deputy director of the Commerce Ministry's research institute was quoted as saying on haiwainet.cn:
BEIJING IS PLANNING TO OPEN THE PARKING LOTS in residential and government compounds to the public under manageable circumstances and charge non-registered drivers, according to the city's latest draft regulation on parking management. Legal Daily commented on Wednesday:
A YOUNG MOTHER stirred heated debate recently when she posted her experience of being barred by a female doorkeeper from taking her 3-year-old son into the women's changing room in a public swimming pool in Beijing. Gmw.cn comments: