It's hard to make long-term predictions, but I hope China can keep its own development pace and have its own development patterns

The country, which gained independence from the United Kingdom in April 1961, remains one of the least developed in the world

Philippine law enforcers seized the drugs around midnight and it took less than four hours for the cross-border operation to be implemented

The Obama administration had done everything it could to internationalize the South China Sea issue and had used the Philippines, a US ally, to advance the American strategy

This scenario would see official campaigning for the national poll kick off on Oct 10, with voters thereafter casting their ballots on Oct 22