Global Times Daily Newsletter 20180226

2018-02-26

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Editor's Picks

Constitution change proposed

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee made public its proposal on amendment to the country's Constitution Sunday.

• Provocative actions likely to rise
• PLA advanced stealth fighter transforms air force capability
• US sanctions undermine peace hopes, say analysts

In-Depth

Traveling justice

In a remote island in Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province, a traveling circuit court consisting of only three members is in charge of mediating all kinds of disputes among the roughly 60,000 residents that live in the island's 46 villages. Carrying the country's national emblem wherever they go, the court has been bringing justice to every corner of the island for the past eight years.

China

• Websites told to halt selling vulgar shows
• Messi fans, internet users call for movie boycott
• Solar super highway to open in 2022

Op-Ed

• US frightened by its own mirror image
• Will Turnbull's visit realign US-Australia ties?

Business

• Bay Area can be driving force for B&R development
• Banks shuttering smaller urban branches amid shift of strategy
• Carmakers pursue overseas 'marriages'

World

• Syrian cease-fire fails to hold
• US Democrats release counter-memo over Russia probe
• Bollywood star Sridevi dies at 54

Life

• 'Landskating'
• Director Hu Bo's first and last film, 'An Elephant Sitting Still,' captures critics' attention at Berlinale
• 1,500 year-old sculpture discovered in Yungang Grottoes

Sports

• Curtain down
• Six-goal Barcelona extend La Liga lead
• Durant leads Warriors' romp

Metro Beijing

• Improving English classes
• WeChat succeeds, but only in China so far
• Attracted by good salaries and plentiful opportunities, many expats soon find themselves at odds with local culture

Metro Shanghai

• Over 1m passengers return to city by train
• What is most likely to affect the employment rate of schools?
• Expats and locals discuss the Chinese tradition of giving children cash as gifts

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Daily Quote:

To remove the two-term limit of the Chinese president can help maintain the trinity system and improve the institution of leadership of the CPC and the nation.

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