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The dark side of voting in elections

According to an unpublished "kitchen table survey", conducted before last November's presidential election in the United States, about 95 percent of the predominantly Hispanic members of one of the US' largest domestic unions preferred Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton to her Republican opponent Donald Trump. Yet less than 3 percent of that union's members actually planned to vote. The reason came down to economics.

'Safe' cars for women won't go down the tube

Editor's note: The decision of local authorities in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, to run some women-only coaches on several metro lines as a pilot project has sparked a public debate. Three scholars share their views with China Daily's Wu Zheyu on the issue. Excerpts follow:

Thucydides's Trap does not have to be inevitable

Harvard University professor Graham Allison had a question for me when I chatted with him last week about his new book: Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides's Trap?

MSCI signals investors have confidence in Chinese market

Global stock indexes provider MSCI's announcement on Tuesday that it will include 222 large Shanghai and Shenzhen listed companies into its widely followed Emerging Markets Index is a welcome move that caters to the needs of international investors and reflects their rising confidence in the Chinese economy.

NPC's rule scrutiny welcome

In a letter of request to the country's top legislature in May 2015, the China Construction Industry Association claimed a regulation promulgated by Beijing, Shandong province and other regions in recent years goes beyond the scope of local legislative authority and should be repealed.

To have and to hold, at least until real estate do us part

DATA FROM THE BEIJING CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU show the number of divorces in the city reached 97,600 in 2016, 73 percent higher than the number in 2014. At the same time, the number of couples getting remarried reached 22,607, 131 percent higher than in 2014. Ifeng.com comments:

MSCI signals investors have confidence in Chinese market

Global stock indexes provider MSCI's announcement on Tuesday that it will include 222 large Shanghai and Shenzhen listed companies into its widely followed Emerging Markets Index is a welcome move that caters to the needs of international investors and reflects their rising confidence in the Chinese economy.

NPC's rule scrutiny welcome

In a letter of request to the country's top legislature in May 2015, the China Construction Industry Association claimed a regulation promulgated by Beijing, Shandong province and other regions in recent years goes beyond the scope of local legislative authority and should be repealed.

To have and to hold, at least until real estate do us part

DATA FROM THE BEIJING CIVIL AFFAIRS BUREAU show the number of divorces in the city reached 97,600 in 2016, 73 percent higher than the number in 2014. At the same time, the number of couples getting remarried reached 22,607, 131 percent higher than in 2014. Ifeng.com comments:

Extra exams hurt education fairness

HIGH SCHOOLS AND PRIMARY SCHOOLS, be they public or private, have reportedly been conducting unauthorized tests, most of which are about the Mathematical Olympiad, to select "qualified" applicants. Such a selective admission approach violates China's compulsory education policy that upholds indiscriminate recruitment, said Changjiang Daily on Wednesday:

Genetic testing of artistic ability is nonsense

SOME GENETIC TESTING agencies advertise that salvia can reveal how talented a child will be in certain arts. Even if the testing may cost more than 10,000 yuan ($1,464), many parents are willing to pay the price so they can increase their inputs to nurture their children's innate talents. Legal Daily comments: