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Message to spokespersons: meet changing world with more effective communication

LEADING publicity officials and spokesperson aired their views on how to hone their communication skills at a forum held over the weekend in Shanghai. The forum, the first of its kind, was sponsored ...

Wan Lixin | November 8, 2016, Tuesday

Forum panelists speak of challenges

YANG Yujun (Spokesman for the Ministry of Defense): Spokespersons today often confront hot-button issues. In the era of new media, tactics like “keeping quite” and “say-less-do-more” simply will not work. ...

Wan Lixin | November 8, 2016, Tuesday

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Scholars ponder meaning of Tokyo Trial

THIS year marks the 70th anniversary of the opening of the Tokyo Trial. About 30 professors of law and history from Japan, New Zealand, the UK and the US joined Chinese scholars and experts with the Center ...

Xu Qin | November 22, 2016, Tuesday

Peatlands could help reduce carbon emissions

WETLANDS, forests, and oceans absorb and store carbon, which makes them a vital asset for countries pursuing the Paris climate agreement’s targets for reducing CO2 emissions. So how can we use them most ...

Martha Rojas-Urrego and Patricia Espinosa | November 21, 2016, Monday

Economists search for new growth paths

SOBER analyses by reputable economists is critically needed amid China’s ongoing economic restructuring efforts....

Ni Tao | November 21, 2016, Monday

At Fudan forum, journalism educators mull training for tomorrow’s media professionals

Faculty representatives from university journalism departments at home and abroad aired their views on how to conduct journalism education in view of the deepening influence of the Internet at a forum...

Wan Lixin | November 18, 2016, Friday

Looking back on 30 years of Sino-ADB ties

EDITOR’S note: This article is adapted from the speech by Takehiko Nakao, President of The Asian Development Bank, at the ADB-PRC Symposium commemorating 30 years of partnership at the Asia-Pacific ...

Takehiko Nakao | November 17, 2016, Thursday

For better or worse, modern obsession with consumption changes everything

AT about 1:00am on Friday, I woke up from my sleep and found my son still doing homework. I checked the WeChat accounts of other parents at my son’s school, and found dozens of messages to catch up with. ...

Wan Lixin | November 16, 2016, Wednesday

US professor lays out top policy priorities, possibilities as Trump enters White House

JAMES G. McGann, a senior lecturer in International Studies and Director of the Think Tank and Civil Societies Program at the University of Pennsylvania, talked to Shanghai Daily reporter Chen Huizhi ...

Chen Huizhi | November 15, 2016, Tuesday

The end of US soft power as fear overtakes hope?

TRADITIONALLY, countries’ global political power was assessed according to military might: the one with the largest army had the most power. But that logic was not always reflected in reality. The US ...

Shashi Tharoor | November 15, 2016, Tuesday