THE PHOTO of a divorce agreement in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province, aroused fierce discussion after it was posted online, because it revealed the couple owns 63 apartments. Beijing News comments:
Populism and protectionism are on the rise across the world. Some recent developments in Europe and the election of Donald Trump as US president seem to have added strength to the voices opposed to globalization. These are huge challenges confronting the world. What makes these challenges more complicated is the quality and complexity of global interdependence today.
Editor's note: Tencent Games has announced that its most popular mobile game, King of Glory, will automatically log out players below 12 after an hour, sparking a debate on how best to regulate online games that has 36 million players below the age of 17 in China. Three experts share their views with China Daily's Wu Zheyu on the issue. Excerpts follow:
Years of rising housing prices have made China's real estate sector anathema to many young people and a butt of jokes on many online and social media platforms. In response to public appeals to stabilize housing prices, the government has launched many price and transaction control measures. And the latest data show real estate prices have stopped rising in some major cities; in Beijing, for instance, they have even dropped mildly.
More than two weeks after India sent troops across the Sikkim border into China to obstruct construction of a road by the People's Liberation Army in the Donglong region, the situation there remains worryingly tense, with a stand-off between soldiers of the two countries still ongoing.
A number of potentially negative social factors can be only defused through China's continuous economic and social development. Thus a key task for the Chinese government is supporting the competitiveness of domestic enterprises by providing better services and reducing taxes.
A 74-PAGE REPORT by Europe's police agency and the EU Intelligence Property Office claims the Chinese mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region "were the provenance of 86 percent of global counterfeiting and $396.5 billion worth of counterfeit goods" in 2015. People's Daily comments:
AROUND 54 PERCENT OF OVER 1,000 INTERVIEWEES in the United Kingdom said they wanted to remain a member of the European Union, while just 46 percent were in favor of Brexit, according to the latest survey by the polling and market research agency Survation. Beijing News commented on Tuesday:
ON SUNDAY, the Beijing police announced that Beijing-based assets management company Huayingkailai is suspected of illegal fundraising activities, and 32 suspects, including its chairman Bai Zhiming, have been detained on criminal charges. The news made headlines nationwide because the company has been raising money in the name of developing the Transit Elevated Bus, even though the bus had failed its road test. Southern Metropolis Daily comments:
The G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, takes place against the background of a rapidly changing global situation. For the host, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the three key questions are: How Germany can ensure the G20 partners continue to promote free trade and reject protectionism? How to save the Paris climate change agreement? And how to strengthen multilateral institutions against a broad anti-globalization trend?
Moody's Investors Service gave the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank its highest possible rating of Aaa, with a stable outlook, on June 29, because of "the strength of AIIB's governance frameworks, including its policies on risk management, capital adequacy and liquidity".
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