The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) 2016 will focus on new challenges in Asian and emerging economies with the goal of injecting new vitality into the world's economy, as reported by Xinhua.
Russia topped the list of countries that tour operators listed as the best places to enjoy escorted trips in 2016. Half of the top 10 countries are in Asia, including China.
Zhou Chengjian, the 65th richest man in China with an estimated wealth of $4 billion (26.5 billion yuan), is reportedly missing. The founder of famous Chinese fashion brand Metersbonwe was picked up by police.
Shandong Drug Abuse Control Bureau will start using TCM to treat addiction, in partnership with Shandong TCM University.
With the new two-child policy, Beijing readies itself for a surge in additional births. The city will have to improve several social services.
Chinese government watchdogs in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have been clamping down on online audio and video content related to terrorism in the past year, as part of a campaign to combat extremism and maintain security in the troubled region.
Real estate giant Dalian Wanda Group Co. is setting its sights on China’s healthcare sector with a 15 billion yuan ($2.3 billion) investment in three hospitals in the country.
The World Bank chief economist and former senior vice president, Justin Yifu Lin, said that despite the weak global demand, there are still many opportunities for China to experience economic growth in 2016.
President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday, Jan. 5, that ecology and "green development" would play a key role to boost the growth of the Yangtze River Economic Belt, the Xinhua Finance reported.
Paternity leaves took the center stage in December when Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he would take a two-month paternity leave following the birth of daughter Maxima. Of course, the announcement was overshadowed by his decision to donate 95 percent of his Facebook shares, or $45 billion, to charity.
Chinese companies that are focusing on dissuading mistresses from destroying families are using variety of methods to convince women who enter into a relationship with married men that they have other options.
The three Chinese students who were sentenced by a Los Angeles court for kidnapping and torturing a female Chinese student is being felt in mainland China. Chinese educators are now talking about the need for more protection for Chinese students from school bullying.
A review by the Ministry of Environmental Protection of the two red alerts made by the Beijing municipal government in December, releases on Thursday, says the first alarm could have been made earlier. Under a red alert, public schools are shuttered, car use is limited and factory production is suspended.
The test flights of two commercial airliners were successfully carried out by China at the new airfield in the Nansha Islands on Wednesday, Jan. 8, according to a report by China Daily.
Chinese environmental protection authorities, for the first time, have shown they are part of state power by calling on provincial leaders to discuss local pollution problems on a talk-down session, according to a report by China Daily.
