Best Swimmer
Star swimmer Sun Yang is recently crowned the best male athlete at the 15th FINA World Championships in Barcelona
Securities Regulator
Xiao Gang, head of the China Securities Regulatory Commission, vows to establish "proactive" legislation and law enforcement for the rapidly changing capital market

"Telling stories are more powerful than conveying ideas in political or philosophical language."

Zhao Qizheng, Director of the Foreign Committee of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, commenting on how Chinese culture can be transmitted to the rest of the world, on August 5

"Parents who lose their sole child will face difficulties later in life. The government should take care of them."

Chen Wei, a lawyer in Beijing, in response to a petition to China's top legislature for compensation from over 1,700 parents who have lost their only child, on August 5.

"Some girls dream of finding a rich husband, which makes high-end matchmaking popular and also offers a chance to swindlers."

Yu Hai, a sociology professor at Fudan University in Shanghai, in response to the rise of online fraudsters posing as high-class matchmakers or suitors, on August 5.

"I attended several job fairs both in Beijing and Shanghai. Many companies rejected my resume once they discovered that I received my degree from a university in Taiwan. They had very limited knowledge about my school."

Li Chenchen, 25, commenting on the difficulty of finding a job on the mainland, on August 7

Who Is Hacking China?

Oriental Outlook
August 8

With the China hacker threat being exaggerated, statistics show that the country is in fact the biggest victim of cyber attacks.

A recent report from the National Computer Network Emergency Response Team Coordination Center of China indicates that attacks from IP addresses in the United States, no matter in the form of Remote Access Trojans or spear-phishing, rank the highest.

Although frequent attacks on the Chinese network have not caused large-scale harm, they do pose stiff challenges to its cyber security.

Helping Hands

Changjiang Daily
August 5

In Liaoning Province's draft amendment on rewarding and protecting people willing to help others in an emergency, the original article "not to encourage teenagers to help others in an emergency" was changed to "encourage legal, proper and effective ways of helping others in an emergency."

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Bon Voyage Naval crews aboard the Chinese Navy training vessel Zheng He are welcomed at the Chinhae Port in the Republic of Korea for a four-day goodwill visit to the country (ZHAO WEI)
Inspiring Design A solar-powered house is displayed at the 2013 China Solar Decathlon on August 2-13 in Datong, Shanxi Province (FAN MINDA)
Nuclear Transparency
China's largest nuclear power company will hold annual open house events every August 7 to make its operations more transparent
Free HIV Therapy
Authorities have set up a pilot program in 12 counties and cities in nine provinces to provide free one-stop antiretroviral therapy for HIV/AIDS patients
Misinformation Control
Five portals and Sina Weibo, a Twitter-like microblogging service, jointly launch a website refute online misinformation
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Nature’s Treasure Farmers pick grapes in Binchuan County, Yunnan Province. The county produces 2,000 kg of grapes per mu. The popular grapes have been sold in China and abroad (CHEN HAINING)
Time-Saving Line The railway linking Tianjin and Qinhuangdao in Hebei Province runs above a road during a test on August 3. The line will shorten travel time between the two cities to only one hour (JIAO HONGTAO)
Price-Fixing Fines
China has issued record fines of 670 million yuan on six baby formula companies on the mainland following an anti-trust probe
Liquidity Injection
The People's Bank of China continues to inject liquidity into the banking system, with 12 billion yuan of seven-day reverse repurchase agreement (repo) operations
Economic Stabilizing
China's official Purchasing Managers' Index for the manufacturing sector picks up slightly to 50.3 in July from 50.1 in June
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Loosen Property Curbs
China's real estate market is mired in a dilemma
Volvo Sales Boom
Volvo Car Group reports that the company's global sales increased by 14 percent in July compared to the same month last year thanks to substantial growth in China and Europe
Local Brand Smartphones
China Mobile Ltd. officially enters the booming mobile terminal market  as it unveiled its own-brand of smartphone models
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  • JAPAN
    Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (left) and Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Taro Aso attend a cabinet meeting in Tokyo on August 2. Aso refused to apologize for saying that Tokyo could learn from the Nazis' swift overhaul of Germany’s constitution (XINHUA/AFP)
  • INDIA
    College students wearing traditional dress perform a dance in celebration of the Teej festival in Amritsar on August 3 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • PAKISTAN
    A man drives an auto rickshaw through a flooded street following torrential rains in Karachi on August 3 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • ITALY
    A tightrope walker performs in front of the Roman Colosseum on the night of August 3 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • HONDURAS
    Soldiers stand guard outside a hospital in Tegucigalpa, where gang members wounded in a prison riot were admitted to receive medical assistance, on August 3 (XINHUA/AFP)
  • UNITED STATES
    A woman walks by a banner hung on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce building in Washington, D.C. on August 2. The U.S. unemployment rate fell to a four-year low of 7.4 percent in July (XINHUA/AFP)
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