‘Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation’ Revs to Record Opening Day in China
on September 8, 2015
The Tom Cruise movie scored the top opening of all time for a 2D Hollywood title with $18.5 million on Tuesday.
The Tom Cruise movie scored the top opening of all time for a 2D Hollywood title with $18.5 million on Tuesday.
May 16, 1966 marked the start of the Cultural Revolution—but don’t except China to publicize the anniversary.
As of last year, more than 13,000 Chinese students were attending college in Boston, out of a total of 44,000 foreign students in the city.
A recent amnesty declaration affecting convicted criminals deemed no threat to society was a poignant reminder of China’s tradition of prudent punishment, support for human rights, and progress toward of rule of law.
The recent decision by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, which made international headlines, was timed to coincide with the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. War veterans and the elderly were among the four groups of convicts pardoned.

The state allegedly offered money for bogus box-office data for "The Hundred Regiments Offensive."
U.S. group were due to perform first China shows next week, but previous use of Dalai Lama image may have prompted officia intervention.
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In 1949, Sim Chi Yin’s grandfather, Shen Huansheng, a school principal and chief editor for the leftist Ipoh Daily newspaper, became a “Communist martyr.” A monument in Gaoshang with the inscription, “The tomb of martyr Shen Huansheng” proves it.
While the recent economic turmoil in China is prompting a number of African countries to reconsider their growing economic dependence on the People’s Republic of China, not so in South Africa. Both the government and the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party have seemingly found their geopolitical soul mate in China.

Phillip de Wet is an Associate Editor for Mail & Guardian, a South African online news publication. He writes about politics, society, economics, weird stuff, and the areas where all of these collide. Over the past decade and a half, he has also written about telecommunications, sexually transmitted diseases, property development, civil liberties, riot policing, mining, movies, the media, and UFOs, among other topics.