The Communist Party of China (CPC) leadership is "the most fundamental guarantee" for comprehensively advancing rule of law, said a People's Daily editorial to be published on Friday.
BEIJING, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- As China's ruling party pledges to advance the rule of law at a key meeting on this theme, government agencies and officials should be reminded that the law should regulate the entire society, rather than simply be a tool to justify their administration.
The fourth plenum of the 18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee is set to open on Monday to discuss the rule of law, aiming to speed up the construction of governance by law from the top level and by improving the system to promote social justice of the country.
At 7:00 a.m., Shanghai-based lawyer Zhang Jie opened his computer at home, logged onto the Judicial Opinions of China website, and read a court ruling on a case he had offered legal aid to. The whole process took no more than one minute.
Yan Jinchang is not able to give exact definition for "rule of law" or "rule of man", the 71-year-old farmer feels good about China's improving legal system.
Lawmakers in Beijing reviewed a draft law on smoking control, this time including a ban on smoking in single occupancy offices, for the second time on Thursday.
The 69th annual General Debate of the UN General Assembly -- the one body in which all nations have a voice -- got underway Wednesday in the shadow of terrorism, a nearly universal topic.
The Lao government held a public consultation here Thursday to gather feedback on its revised draft of the Water Resources Law, according to an IFC press release.
Argentina's lawmakers Thursday passed a bill that allows the government to pay its foreign debt through domestic banks.
China's top legislature on Sunday adopted a revision to the Budget Law which clears ambiguity and closes loopholes in managing the trillions of yuan involved in fiscal revenue and spending.
Japan's minimum voting age was officially lowered to 18 from 20 as a revised national referendum law took effect on Friday, in a effort by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to amend the country's war-renouncing pacifist constitution.
An inspection of China's air pollution law enforcement has begun, in advance of revision to the law later this year.
Pakistani Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharif, on Wednesday traveled to the country's commercial hub of Karachi to review the law and order situation where targeted attacks routinely claim lives and disrupted economic activities.
Chinese environmental experts have hailed the recently revised Environmental Protection Law, which features harsher punishments for polluters.
The Standing Committee of China's National People's Congress, the country's top legislature, on Thursday voted to adopt revisions to the Environmental Protection Law, which gives heavier punishment to environment-related wrongdoing.
The Italian government of Prime Minister Matteo Renzi on Wednesday won a confidence vote in the lower chamber on a labor decree which is going through parliamentary procedure to be converted into law.
China's top legislature is considering giving a greenlight to bond sales by provincial-level governments, under strict conditions.
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