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Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the opening ceremony of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021 via video link on Tuesday and delivered a keynote speech.
Former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin has been found guilty of murder and manslaughter in the May 25, 2020 death of George Floyd.
At the invitation of U.S. President Joe Biden, Chinese President Xi Jinping will attend and deliver an important speech at the Leaders Summit on Climate in Beijing on April 22 through videolink.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga sent a ritual offering on Wednesday to the notorious Yasukuni shrine, seen as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, on the occasion of its spring festival.
Speaking on Bay Area development, Lam said Hong Kong had experienced chaos and setbacks since 2019, but that time is over.
A Chinese mainland spokesperson on Tuesday slammed Taiwan's Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authority for being vague about Japan's decision to dump radioactive wastewater into the sea.
Complete lifting of all relevant sanctions, including those on Iran and third parties, is the key to the success of the current negotiations to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, or the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
China will encourage the construction of green infrastructure in countries and regions participating in the Belt and Road Initiative, to foster sustainable and high-quality development of the global economy.
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called for efforts to deepen reform and opening-up, enhance driving forces for innovation, consolidate the sound foundation of the country's economy, and guarantee people's livelihood.
A session titled “Overseas Chinese CEO and Think Tank Roundtable” is held during the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021 in Boao, south China's Hainan Province on April 19, 2021.
China's one-year loan prime rate (LPR), a market-based benchmark lending rate, came in at 3.85 percent on Tuesday, unchanged from the previous month.
The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership agreement, inked at a time when the world is mired in headwinds of pandemic and anti-globalization sentiments, heralds new confidence in economic globalization, experts said at a sub-forum of the high-profile Boao Forum for Asia annual conference.
China has made great strides in reshaping its own economy based on technology, and now other emerging markets are getting a push from the same digital engines, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said Monday night.
The Japanese government banned shipments of black rockfish from Fukushima on Monday, after a radioactive substance was found to be more than five times higher than acceptable levels in the fish caught off the prefecture.
China's Yunnan Province reported two confirmed COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the provincial health commission said Wednesday.
Mexico launched its immunization plan against COVID-19 for teachers and other educational personnel in five states on Tuesday with vaccines from Chinese pharmaceutical firm CanSino, after announcing the return to in-person classes in some states in two weeks.
Hong Kong police said on Tuesday that they had recently cracked a telephone fraud case involving a 90-year-old woman defrauded of about 250 million HK dollars (about 32.2 million U.S. dollars).
China is expected to produce more than 3 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses this year, an official said Tuesday.
The undated photo shows kayaks floating on the Dead Sea with salt crystal formations in the water below, making the kayaks seem to sail on the land.
Australian researchers have embarked on an expedition to explore previously undocumented deep-sea coral reefs off the country's north coast.
A golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos) under first-class state protection in China, carrying a wild pig off into the sky in Giant Panda National Park, Guangyuan City, southwest China’s Sichuan Province.
A white peacock performs its mating rituals with its full plumage on display in Scotland.
March 22 marks the World Water Day, the day to raise awareness of the global water crisis.
A 3D-printed book house in Shanghai is seen at the Wisdom Bay innovation park in Baoshan District, Shanghai.
The Russian Aerospace Forces launched airstrikes against a terrorist training base near Syria's Palmyra, killing up to 200 militants, the Russian military said Monday.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on Thursday that the country's remaining troops in Afghanistan will be withdrawn in September.
The drills conducted by the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the Taiwan Straits are aimed at safeguarding national sovereignty and responding to interference by external forces and provocations by "Taiwan independence" forces.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's chief security adviser Nikolai Patrushev has accused the United States of experimenting with biological weapons in regions near the borders of China and Russia, according to Newsweek.
When asked if the next military talks between top-level officials from China and India will be delayed, a Chinese official on Thursday refuted the remarks, saying that the two sides are still "in talks" for the meet-up.
More than a dozen new explosive ordnance disposal technologies involving lasers, drone detection, detonation robots, water guns, X-ray units, and night vision debuted during a seven-day training session.
Chinese scientists have developed an amphibious unmanned aerial vehicle that can take off and dive underwater.
The 5G industry created massive direct economic output in 2020, according to a new white paper.
Japanese researchers from the Riken research institute and the University of Tokyo among others said they have developed a testing method for COVID-19 that provides results within five minutes, local media reported Tuesday.
NASA launched its Mars helicopter Ingenuity from the surface of the Red Planet earlier Monday, marking the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet.
The 5G industry created massive direct economic output in 2020, according to a new white paper.
Chinese experts have condemned Japan's unilateral decision to discharge nuclear wastewater into the sea, calling it "extremely irresponsible."
A one-hour special event was held online to mark the UN Chinese Language Day on Tuesday, when people around the world were invited to express their passion and interest for the Chinese language and culture through short videos.
A Chinese envoy on Monday encouraged more people to use the Chinese language as a means of knowing more about China and the United Nations (UN).
A stunning shadow performance is staged at BFA Theme Park during the ongoing Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2021.
More than 2,000 pieces of cultural relics, primarily pottery, bronze and jade have been unearthed from over 400 tombs from the Dabaozi Cemetery dating back to the Western Han Dynasty (202 BC to 8 AD), according to the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology.
China's 2021 box office revenue exceeded 20 billion yuan (3 billion U.S. dollars) as of Sunday, almost equal to the total ticket sales for the whole of 2020.
More than 20 teams from Rongshui Miao Autonomous County of Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region held a fashion show on the first day of "San Yue San" holiday.
China has built more than 26,000 soccer pitches during the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020), China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said, noting the next step is to improve the utilization of the pitches.
Secretary-General of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Toshihiro Nikai said Thursday that cancelling the Tokyo Olympics this summer could be an option if the COVID-19 situation continues to worsen.
Tokyo marked 100 days on Wednesday before the start of the postponed Olympic Games by holding two small ceremonies as the country is suffering a recurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic.
ASUNCION, April 13 (Xinhua) -- China's Sinovac Biotech will donate 50,000 doses of its COVID-19 vaccine to inoculate footballers in South America's top competitions this year, regional confederation CONMEBOL said on Tuesday.
China's women's football team has booked its spot at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after drawing 2-2 with South Korea after extra time in the second leg of Asian Qualification playoffs here on Tuesday.
Wang Lei's skills on the court have won him millions of fans online－but none among them so cherished by the 12-year-old as his idol, Yao Ming.
Wildlife authorities said they captured rare video footage of two pandas engaging in a wrestling match so fierce that it left one panda with a bloody face.
Cute panda cub “Feng Bin” enjoys the sunbath at the Adventure World theme park in the town of Shirahama, Japan, April 7, 2021.
A pair of female pandas Chun Qiao and Pangniu on Thursday left for their hometown, China Conservation and Research Center for Giant Pandas in southwest China’s Chengdu City.
A panda-themed train launched its trial passenger services in Sichuan on Wednesday.
A recently disclosed infrared camera footage shows a wild panda drinks water at an artificial drinking spot in the Dujiangyan Panda Park in January.
Some workers in Quantian County, Southwest China's Sichuan Province, came across a wild giant panda idling around the Latahe hydropower station on Wednesday.
