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East Asia
Criticising the citizen Park Geun-hye
Today marks the first day former President Park will spend in her private residence as an ordinary citizen. After being criticized for staying in the Blue House two additional days since her impeachment, Park was driven to her home in Samseong-dong (Gangnam) late Sunday evening. Upon arriving at her residence,…
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Chinese government to reduce business-related fees
By Li Lihui, Wang Pei, and Yang Xun from People’s Daily The Chinese government will further reduce taxation and fees to relive the businesses from heavy burden, according to the information from the 2017 government work report and draft budget of China delivered at the annual meeting of National People’s…
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East Asia
China makes great progress in protection of women’s rights and status
By Liu Junguo from People’s Daily Women living in China have witnessed a dramatic rise in their social status in recent years, thanks to the increasing efforts made by Chinese government to improve the protection of their rights. Data showed that by 2015, the average life expectancy of Chinese women…
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Female sailors on escort mission in Gulf of Aden
By Xing Xue, Li Youtao, Zhang Dongjie from People’s Daily When women around the world celebrated the International Women’s Day on Wednesday, 16 female soldiers of a Chinese navy fleet on an escort mission in the Gulf of Aden spent a special yet regular day by guarding the safety of…
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East Asia
Eight innovation in China’s draft general provisions of civil law
By Xu Jun from People’s Daily The 5th session of the 12th National People’s Congress (NPC) of China deliberated on the draft general provisions of civil law on Wednesday afternoon. From the beginning, the draft has drawn strong response from the society. Its release will better improve the basic rules…
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China promises tougher assessment in war on poverty
By Ji Peijuan, Zhang Cong from People’s Daily Food and clothing shortages must be solved to alleviate poverty, a Chinese official pledged recently, in China’s latest vow to get tough in war on poverty. To make sure its poverty alleviation policies are effective, China has promised the strictest assessments as…
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East Asia
China to optimize approval procedures for registration of foreign drugs
By Bai Yang from People’s Daily China is now studying on the ways to optimize approval procedures for drug registration of foreign companies, head of drug safety watchdog disclosed on Sunday, adding that primary measures like simplifying proceedings and increasing team members have been taken to shorten the time window.…
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East Asia
Xi Jinping pledges continued efforts to promote trade and investment liberalization and facilitation
By Zhao Cheng from People’s Daily Chinese President Xi Jinping pledged on March 5 that China will persist in the all-round opening-up policy, and continue to liberalize and facilitate trade and investment, while urging Shanghai, a pioneer in China’s reform and opening-up, to act as a bridgehead. Xi made the…
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China to send Chang’e-5 lunar probe into space in 2017
By Meng Xiangfu and Feng Hua from People’s Daily China is expected to send lunar probe Chang’e-5 to land on the moon and return with lunar samples within this year, according to the latest information from the country’s State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence. The preparation…
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East Asia
China opposes all forms of cyber attacks, urges US to stop such actions
By Hu Zexi from People’s Daily China opposes all forms of cyber attacks, and urges the US side to stop eavesdropping, monitoring, spying and launching cyber attacks against China and other countries, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang stressed at a regular press conference on Thursday. Geng made the remarks…
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