A better monitoring system needed to ensure civil servants’ loyalty

The “Union for New Civil Servants” (Union), which was established in the wake of the anti-extradition movement in 2019, recently disbanded itself. With an anti-government agenda, the Union organized various campaigns to undermine the SAR government, support violence perpetrated by rioters and indiscriminately attack the SAR government. Those actions clearly breached the civil service code […]

Shaping a new labour market for the post-pandemic economy

What took a decade to achieve unraveled within a matter of months.  It seems like another age, but the start of 2020 had marked a decade of decline in the unemployment rate of the world’s advanced economies. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, the unemployment rate in OECD countries increased by an unprecedented 3.6 percentage points […]

The promise and peril of the bio-revolution

(SHI YU / CHINA DAILY) Last November, the world cheered the news that three gene-based COVID-19 vaccines-one developed by German biotech company BioNTech in collaboration with Pfizer, another by US-based biotech firm Moderna, and a third by the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca-had proved effective in clinical trials. But a month before that, researchers revealed […]

Biden team must drop anti-China bias

President Xi Jinping's appeal to a divided world to return to sanity and join hands to contain the COVID-19 pandemic and meet other global challenges is also a call to the new US administration to end the ugly era of stigmatization and accusations-created by former US president Donald Trump and former secretary of state Mike […]

Political bias shouldn’t be above the law

The new chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, Paul Harris, claimed immediately after being elected that the earlier arrest of 55 individuals by the Hong Kong police on charges of subversion under the special administrative region's National Security Law is "deliberate intimidation of the democratic movement". It seems that he is claiming that they […]

Free-rider mentality must be curbed to beat COVID-19

The rapid-response regime known as “restriction testing”, which targets specific buildings and surrounding areas where multiple people have tested positive for COVID-19, has proved quite effective so far, with more than a dozen confirmed cases discovered since the SAR government adopted this new anti-pandemic tactic last week. Scores of residential buildings in the Yau Tsim […]

Beijing has enriched the human rights cause

The founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 laid the institutional foundation for the protection of Chinese citizens' basic rights. The country's Constitution, adopted in 1954, established the principles of people's democracy, socialism and the system of people's congresses, institutionally guaranteed that all State rights belong to the people, and stipulated the basic […]

Is Biden’s China team fit for the job?

(SONG CHEN / CHINA DAILY) US President Joe Biden's China team is competent but does not inspire confidence. Given the COVID-19 pandemic, the global economic downturn and the harsh chorus of wolfish howls and growls on both sides of the US-China divide, it will take more than the usual bureaucratic competence to get things back […]

Private colleges must improve performance to set good example

Editor's Note: The Chinese people have always attached special importance to education. In the 20th century, China has gone through a long, arduous journey from one-teacher schools to world-class universities and achieved excellence in different fields including science and technology. What will China's education journey be like during the rest of the 21st century? In […]

Co2Bitcoin (Co2B) Combatting Global Warming at Coinsbit Exchange

Co2Bitcoin will be available on January 28, 2021 at the www.coinsbit.io exchange. New York, NY – A decentralized group of innovators and visionaries, focused on mitigating the causes and potentially cataclysmic effects of climate change, has introduced a new financial instrument. A cryptocurrency, Co2Bitcoin, available to the public on January 28th, 2021, will help Countries to finance local projects to combat global […]

UK asylum: Protecting system from abuse by charlatans

On December 21, Nathan Law Kwun-chung, a professional agitator, announced that he was seeking political asylum in the United Kingdom. He said an anti-China “consensus needs to be built” in the UK and the EU, and he wanted to help take this forward. However, before the UK authorities rush into granting him asylum, they need […]

China, US must work for global common good

Editor's Note: Now that Joe Biden has assumed the US president's office, what should Washington and Beijing do to put bilateral ties back on the right track? And how can the two sides manage their differences and engage in healthy competition and win-win cooperation? Five experts with the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies shared their […]

Tauriga Sciences, Inc. Signs Major Distribution Agreement with Online Grocer and Wholesaler, Stock Up Express

Stock Up Express (www.stockupexpress.com) Receives More Than 1,000,000 Annual Online Visitors, Consisting of a Diverse Group of Customers NEW YORK, NY, Jan 26, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – via NewMediaWire – Tauriga Sciences, Inc. (OTCQB: TAUG) (“Tauriga” or the “Company”), a revenue generating, diversified life sciences company, with a proprietary line of CBD & CBG infused Supplement chewing gums […]

Greenbriar Capital Partners with Ridge Utilities Ltd. to Unlock the Huge Potential of Micro-Generation in Southern Alberta

Stirling, Alberta, Jan 25, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Greenbriar Capital Corp. (TSXV: GRB) (“Greenbriar”) is pleased to announce that it has entered into a unique industry leading marketing partnership with Ridge Utilities Ltd. (“Ridge”). The partnership will see Greenbriar support the development of micro-generation capacity for numerous commercial and agricultural sites across southern Alberta, while Ridge Utilities will […]

Time for Bar Association to embrace political realism

It is interesting to note that both the former and the new chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association recently talked about their aspirations for the group to reopen communications with Beijing. However, observers will perceive their aspirations to be insincere — at the very least. Over the past three years under Philip Dykes’ leadership, […]

An open letter to the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China

Dear members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, In response to the recent statement by the so-called “Five Eyes” alliance (sans New Zealand) condemning Hong Kong for arresting 55 individuals for subversion under the National Security Law, and an appeal to support the United States, which imposed fresh sanctions on another six Chinese individuals, we […]

Recovery is not enough for future resilience

A municipal worker paints a sign reminding people to maintain social distancing ahead of the opening of Marine Drive to the public as the government eases restrictions imposed as a preventive measure against the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, in Mumbai on June 2, 2020. (PUNIT PARANJPE / AFP) COVID-19 is hitting everyone hard, and […]

China’s recovery key to global growth

(MA XUEJING / CHINA DAILY) Recent resurgences of novel coronavirus infections in Jilin province and Shijiazhuang, Hebei province, have renewed concerns about sporadic outbreaks. Yet in the light of the lockdowns in multiple major countries and the number of global cumulative cases close to 100 million, the number of cases in China remains marginal. A […]

China, emerging markets, weak dollar to drive growth

(CAI MENG / CHINA DAILY) The COVID-19 pandemic has provided the world with its toughest stress test in more than 80 years. Pointing to mid-single-digit growth in world GDP this year from Pictet Asset Management's economic indicators, positive base effects cannot hide the long-lasting damage caused by the pandemic. We estimate that the fallout from […]