THE SECOND semester of the school year started on Monday, which means that parents will once again be burdened with homework as doing some of their children's homework has become an obligation of the parents. Guangzhou Daily commented on Monday:
The United States registered 20 anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation cases against China involving $3.7 billion in 2016, according to statistics from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce.
US warships have begun a fresh round of "freedom of navigation" patrols in the South China Sea. Despite China's strong opposition, the USS Carl Vinson carrier strike group began what are described by the US navy as "routine operations" in the waters on Saturday.
Chinese think tanks, be they State-sponsored or private, are inching forward in the global intellectual race. Nine of these made it to the world's top 175 think-tank list prepared recently by the Lauder Institute of University of Pennsylvania. The university report says the United States has the largest number of think tanks (1,835) and China the second largest (435).
Many European leaders have run out of words to describe the situation in the European Union. But there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel.
During this year's Spring Festival it is estimated that more than 6 million Chinese consumers ventured overseas. And in recent years almost 100 million Chinese consumers have enjoyed an annual foreign holiday.
With still more than two months to go until the first round of France's presidential election, the contest is already looking messy.
Travel, goes the old adage, broadens the mind. In my case, the mind-broadening began in a typically bizarre Peterson fashion.
Rarely in the last couple of years has the Hong Kong stock market shown so much charm to investors.
Economic diplomacy in the past was hierarchical and traditional, often being premised on North-South cooperation that had been shaped by Cold War politics.
A series of recent local regulations targeting civil servants has drawn huge media attention.
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 130349 
