President Xi Jinping's Maritime Silk Road initiative entered another stage on Wednesday, with the start of the first day of a two-day seminar at which more than 280 academics and experts from 30 countries discussed maritime trade infrastructure in the Asian region.
Japanese society had over a year mandated the Country's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe to carry out reforms which would supposedly catapult the country's economy thereby revitalizing other sectors of the economy. This indeed came to life as he made his speech at the lower house of Diet on Thursday.
Thousands of mourners attended the funeral of the three university Muslim students who were shot dead, execution style, due to a possible hate crime in Chapel Hill.
A 17-year-old teenager from Florida, United States reportedly has undergone penis reduction because, according to him, his large private part has restricted him to have intercourse and he cannot play sports normally.
Around 70,000 local volunteers will help the Shanghai police and firefighters to make sure that the fireworks ban would be adhered to so that the city will stay safe during the Chinese New Year.
Three Muslims were killed over a parking dispute in an apartment complex near a university in North Carolina Tuesday night. A Caucasian atheist was charged with three murders.
Although Sino-Japanese relations were placed under the controversy spotlight earlier this year due to issues related to the 75-year anniversary of the end of the Second World War this year, Chinese tourists have been demonstrating their actual attitudes with their travel dollars.
The concerns associated with China's growing aging population, which is becoming more significant while new babies are being born at a lower-than-needed rate, are also present in the health insurance realm.
More than 2,000 people turned up for a vigil to mourn the three Chapel Hill shooting victims at the University of North Carolina. The three Muslim students were also honored prior to a basketball event at the University, where students paid respect by wearing green ribbons.
Judging from the new publicity video from the Communist Party of China (CPC), it appears that party officials might have paid attention to past criticisms, as the Global Times noted that the three-minute promotion does not feature the sloganeering that featured prominently in previous campaigns.
Richard Dawkins, a known personality and atheist, took to Twitter to condemn the Chapel Hill shooting in which three Muslim students lost their lives. Dawkins stated that how can someone not condemn the murders committed by a person.
President Barack Obama asked the United States Congress to grant his request to authorize the use of military forces on the campaign against the ISIS terrorist group. The President’s proposal will allow full military forces against ISIS without geographic limits.
