The fate of the social-media company is becoming much clearer.
Some 51 percent of all surveyed online users across 26 countries say they use social media as a source of news each week, according to a report recently published by the University of Oxford.
China plans to speed up establishing a social record-keeping system, according to a recent guideline published by the State Council.
The state role in enabling economic growth and increasing social benefits is among what the world can learn from China, Paolo Yu, South Center's head of administration and coordinator of the Global Governance for Development Program, told Xinhua in a recent interview.
Since Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe assumed power in 2012, the economic strata of Japan is gradually degenerating to a "pyramid" with the polarization of the rich and the poor becoming more serious and the poor at the bottom accounting for an increasingly larger part of the population.
The third China-Singapore Forum on Social Governance was held in Singapore on Tuesday.
President Xi Jinping stressed the irreplaceable role of philosophy and social sciences for building socialism with Chinese characteristics, urging Chinese characteristics to be incorporated in their development.
Young people who decide they do not want to tread the traditional marriage path find themselves fighting against established values championed by those at the very top.
China will need nearly a million more professional social workers by 2020 as rapid urbanization creates more groups in need, Civil Affairs Minister Li Liguo said on Tuesday, World Social Work Day.
Facebook has lifted a ban that blocked material from Tsu.co, a small rival challenging the world's largest social network's financial dependence on free content shared by its 1.5 billion users.
While social media was designed to bring people together, it can sometimes drive them apart. Social media could be a leading cause behind why more Chinese people are switching their status from married to single, according to experts.
A majority of Latin American countries have stopped making headway in poverty reduction, a United Nations agency said Monday.
With social media engaging massive numbers of users in China, platforms like WeChat and micro blogs are increasingly being used as recruitment tools.
Hundreds of millions of migrant workers in China are expected to get their wages more easily under a regulation aimed at more effectively punishing employers who refuse to pay them.
Hard times are more likely to drive people to religion, the New Zealand co-authors of an international study said Tuesday.
A three-day Southeast Asian regional training to improve services for persons with disabilities (PWDs) kicked off in the Philippines on Tuesday.
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