Pseudoscience Fighter
Fang Zhouzi, a popular science writer, has pledged to continue his efforts to expose academic scandals in China after being attacked and injured slightly
Changing Business Leaders
Qin Xiao, Board Chairman of Hong Kong-based China Merchants Group, has retired and former company President Fu Yuning, has taken over
Fraudulent Taoist
Li Yi, head of the Shaolong Taoist Temple in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, has resigned as vice chairman of the Chinese Taoist Association

"Mass extraction of rare earth will cause great damage to the environment. That's why China has tightened controls over rare earth production, exploration and trade."

Chinese Commerce Minister Chen Deming, defending China's rare earth export control measures

"Without an institutional guarantee to secure the interests of workers, the goal of common prosperity can hardly be realized."

Yue Jinglun, a professor at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, on Shenzhen's imminent new labor regulation. The regulation is expected to stipulate class salary negotiations be conducted at least once a year

"Western-led development strategies, however well meaning, did not break the cycle of underdevelopment in Africa. Chinese investments, made for sound business reasons and boosting employment and growth, offer new hope and an alternative way forward."

Financial Times editorial, August 25, under the headline "China's New Scramble for Africa"

"For us this is an important project because we are beginning to diversify the supply of our energy resources."

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, opening the Russian section of a long-awaited oil pipeline that will carry Russian crude to China, on August 29

"This is a day that will remain in the memory of all Iraqis. Today, Iraq has become a sovereign and independent country."

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in a televised speech on August 31 when U.S. forces ended seven years of combat operations in the country

"There should be a review of the strategy in the fight against terrorism, because the experience of the last eight years showed the fight in the villages of Afghanistan has been ineffective apart from causing civilian casualties."

Afghan President Hamid Karzai, criticizing coalition strategy in fighting Afghanistan's stubborn insurgency when meeting with visiting German Parliament speaker Norbert Lammert on August 29

"Every year thousands of people, mainly women and children, are exploited by criminals who use them for forced labor or the sex trade. No country is immune. Almost all play a part, either as a source of trafficked people, transit point or destination."

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, at a high-level meeting of the UN General Assembly to launch the Global Plan of Action Against Trafficking in Persons on August 31

 
LANDMARK VICTORY In landslide-devastated Zhouqu County, Gansu Province, the last of its four bridges is put back into operation after being flushed to get rid of the sludge on September 1 as the water level fell (HUANG WENXIN)
Negotiable Wages
A senior official with the All China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) said in two years all trade unions nationwide will carry out collective negotiations on wages
Real Name Phone
Mobile phone customers will now have to present IDs when purchasing a phone number in the latest government campaign to curb the global scourge of spam, pornographic messages and fraud on cellular phones
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GIFTS FOR STUDENTS
Thirty-five new students of Peking University receive financial aid and a gift package containing skin care products, a cellphone and a laptop computer, on their registration day because they are from areas devastated by flood-triggered disasters (ZHAO WANWEI)
THE UNFORGETTABLE
Viewers look at a painting at an art exhibition to commemorate the 65th anniversary of China's victory in the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression on September 1. The exhibition at the National Art Museum of China in Beijing was opened that day (LUO PENG)
POWERFUL LANDING
A pedestrian walks in a stormy rain in Shishi City, southeast China's Fujian Province, on September 2. Tropical storm Lionrock, the eighth of this year, made landfall at Fujian early that morning (WEI PEIQUAN)
CHINESE STYLE
Volunteer uniforms for the fourth Annual Meeting of the New Champions, also dubbed the 2010 Summer Davos, which is to be held in Tianjin between September 13-15, are revealed at a press conference on September 1 (LI MUZI)
 
MODERN BANKING The Citibank (China) Co. Ltd. opened its first intelligent retail outlet in Beijing on September 1. The outlet provides Wi-Fi Internet services and is equipped with advanced touch-screen computers and interactive video phones (XING GUANGLI)
Chinese Brands
China needs to raise the proportion of Chinese brands in its exports to improve the nation's trade quality and efficiency
Shenzhen-HK Co-op
Shenzhen in south China's Guangdong Province will beef up cooperation with neighboring Hong Kong in the service industry, seeking complementary rather than competitive results
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Eyeing Property
Foreign investors are making forays into China's property market despite clouds gathering over the sector

ChiNext Pains
For ChiNext, China's NASDAQ-style growth enterprise board, growth should not be taken for granted
PMI Warms Up
The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI), a barometer of manufacturing activities, reached 51.7 percent in August
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  • BELGIUM
    President of the European Council Herman Van Rompuy (second right) studies a part of the SOS Planet exhibition in the eastern Belgian city of Liege on September 1. The exhibition, which aims to raise public awareness about climate change, will last till May 2011 (WU WEI)
  • PERU
    Peruvian President Alan Garcia (left) embraces his Panamanian counterpart Ricardo Martinelli upon the latter's arrival in Lima on August 26. The leaders agreed to launch bilateral free trade negotiations before the end of this year (XINHUA/AFP)
  • THE UNITED STATES
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House on September 1, the day before they restarted direct negotiations following a 20-month suspension (XINHUA/AFP)
  • MALAYSIA
    A woman chooses mooncakes in Kuala Lumpur on September 1. With the approach of the Mid-Autumn Festival, some shopping malls in the Malaysian capital have begun to sell festival commodities such as mooncakes and lanterns (ZHANG WENZONG)
  • RUSSIA
    Donald Tsang, Chief Executive of China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is met with bread and salt, a Russian greeting ceremony, at a promotional event for Hong Kong in Moscow on August 31 (LU JINBO)
  • IRAQ
    Lloyd Austin, newly appointed Commander of U.S. Forces in Iraq, speaks during a change of command ceremony in Baghdad on September 1. After the official end of the combat mission, U.S. forces switched to a new mission to "advise and assist" Iraqi forces (XU YANYAN)
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