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This aerial photo taken on May 13, 2018 shows a scenery of the Yellow Sea National Forest Park in Dongtai, east China's Jiangsu Province.
Chinese movie-goers have made a backlash against Wanda Cinema on social media after an audio recording showing Wanda Cinema warned females not to affect men when they are watching "Avengers: Infinitely War."
SpaceX's updated version of Falcon 9 rocket "Block 5" lifted off in Florida Friday, boosting Bangladesh's first communications satellite into orbit.
China's lower-tier cities are stealing the residential property market thunder from bigger places as home prices continue to rise, thanks to fewer restrictions on purchases there.
Lava erupts from a fissure east of the Leilani Estates subdivision during ongoing eruptions of the Kilauea Volcano in Hawaii, U.S., May 13, 2018.
The Buddhist robots have arrived, and two of China's leading tech firms iFlytek and Tencent have signed a deal with a temple to try to advance a robot monk's wisdom.
A high-speed railway noise barrier tunnel is under construction in South China's Guangdong Province with the aim of protecting a population of herons and other birds from loud sounds in one of the country's largest natural sanctuaries.
Five years have passed since Chinese President Xi Jinping expounded on China's Africa policy in Tanzania, which has drawn a roadmap for the future of China-Africa ties in the new era resulting in closer China-Africa traditional friendship, cooperation, as well as stronger political mutual trust.
Five people have been detained for spreading crime scene photos of a female flight assistant who was killed by a ride-hailing driver, police in central China's Henan Province said Sunday.
About a decade ago, a TV series called Woju (meaning a narrow dwelling, like that of a snail) became a huge hit among Chinese audiences.
The first Mi Store of Chinese technology giant Xiaomi in Vietnam's Hanoi capital did not officially opened until 10 a.m on Saturday, but hundreds of Vietnamese people flocked here and made two parallel long queues as early as from 3 a.m. local time.
Chinese automaker Zhejiang Geely Holding Group said on Sunday that it accurately disclosed the transactions involved in the purchase of a 9.69 percent stake in German car giant Daimler AG, contending it had not violated German disclosure rules.
Wang Pinxian, 82, is about to enter the cabin of Shenhai Yongshi, or Deep-Sea Warrior, for a dive in the South China Sea on the exploration ship Tansuo-1 yesterday, becoming the oldest passenger of the manned submersible so far. Wang is a marine geologist from Tongji University in Shanghai and a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His dive was the 67th conducted by Shenhai Yongshi, China’s second deep-sea submersible to be put into service after Jiaolong.
A list led by prominent Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr won the most votes in the initial results of 10 provinces out of 18 in the country's parliamentary election, the Iraqi electoral commission said Sunday.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Sunday that the United States had failed to reach an agreement with the European nations on the historic Iran nuclear deal.
China has been seeing more exhibitors from countries covered by the Belt and Road Initiative last year, a report showed.
North China's Hebei Province hopes to strengthen cooperation with Japan in the planning and construction of the Xiongan New Area, including urban planning and smart city projects, a Chinese official has said.
Chinese securities regulator has been continuing to crack down on capital market violations including insider trading and price manipulation.
Launching rockets and satellites has long been the preserve of China's state-owned aerospace companies, but private space firms are now popping up hoping to find gold in the space dust.
The area of Qinghai Lake, China's largest salt lake, reached 4,432.69 square km during the dry season, an expansion of 7.31 square km compared with last year.
April through May, Yu Xiaolu and Wang Dong have completed their annual tour across America to selective boarding high schools for updated information to help Chinese teenagers apply to study in this country.
Conflict between Myanmar's armed forces and armed ethnic organizations that broke out on Saturday close to the China-Myanmar border, poses major challenges to China's border security and may threaten the implementation of Lancang-Mekong Cooperation.
Russia's telecommunications watchdog Roskomnadzor said Sunday that it had unlocked a subnet of China's e-commerce giant Alibaba earlier implicated in an extensive blocking against Telegram messenger.
China's first satellite for earthquake study has been operating smoothly in its first three months, scientists said at a symposium to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake on Saturday.
The third U.S.-China Innovation and Investment Summit (UCIS) is kicking off Monday through Tuesday in Houston with about 500 senior officials and entrepreneurs from the two countries will participate in the two-day event.
President Xi Jinping called on the nation this weekend to enhance disaster-prevention capabilities to guarantee people's safety and property.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he and President Xi Jinping are working to give Chinese telecom company ZTE Corp "a way to get back into business, fast."
China said it will maintain communication and coordination with parties including Iran and continue its efforts to uphold the Iran nuclear deal in an objective, just and responsible manner.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Sunday strongly condemned the deadly terrorist bombings in three Surabaya churches that have left 13 people dead and scores of others injured.
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Washington and Beijing are working to get Chinese telecom equipment maker ZTE, which is suffering from a U.S. exports ban, back into business.
The death of a stork-billed kingfisher, a rare bird spotted in southwest China's Yunnan Province, has put bird watchers and photographers in deep sorrow.
"It was Satchel Paige who said, 'Don't look back; (because) something may be gaining on you'," said William Cohen, former Secretary of Defense, citing the baseball Hall of Famer. "We're looking back, and it is China."
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi held talks with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in Beijing on Sunday.
Officials in Ruili, in Southwest China's Yunnan province, launched a border security emergency plan after an attack by an insurgent group in bordering Myanmar killed at least 19 people.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Sunday he hopes to forge a "clear future design" for the nuclear deal facing collapse after Washington's withdrawal.
Israel prepares on Sunday for the opening ceremony of the new U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, a move that has sparked Palestinian protests.
China and the United States have agreed to start fresh talks in Washington "at an appropriate time", which is a positive development to avert an all-out trade war.
Restoration of the giant panda habitat in southwest China's Sichuan Province after a catastrophic earthquake in 2008 has expanded the area by 2.3 percent, local forestry authorities said.
Police are grilling seven suspects in connection with the theft of hundreds of tons of smuggled frozen meat that authorities had buried under concrete. They say residents in Yunnan province dug up the meat and took it away, probably to sell it.
Hainan province announced a plan on Sunday to woo top-tier talent to help the island develop into a pilot international free trade zone.
Shanghai officials released a detailed guideline recently for further opening-up in the financial sector, responding to President Xi Jinping's speech at last month's Boao Forum for Asia.
The China-developed AG600 large amphibious aircraft is expected to be delivered to customers by 2022, says manufacturer the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC).
China's first domestically designed aircraft carrier set out its maiden sea trial on Sunday morning, indicating it might not be long before it is delivered to the Chinese Navy.
A cyberspace security system based on the China-proposed mimic defense theory has withstood over 500,000 hacker attacks in an international challenge, held in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province.
After travelling 16 days and covering a distance of 11,000 km, the first China-Belgium freight train from China's Tangshan port has arrived in the Belgian port of Antwerp.
China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs has slashed its projection for the country's corn exports from October 2017 to September 2018, due to a supply gap.
Foreign investors are racing to expand their presence in China's securities trading market, with three overseas brokers applying to increase ownership stakes or set up holding firms in the country in less than two weeks.
One Chinese national has been injured in the knife attack which happened on Saturday night in the second arrondissement of the French capital, the Chinese Embassy in France announced on Sunday.
Iran will remain in the international nuclear deal if the country's interests are secured by other parties to the agreement, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday.
The death toll from the suicide explosions in three churches in Surabaya, the provincial capital of East Java on Friday has risen to 11, including one child, with 41 others wounded, according to a police officer.
China's latest opening-up measures in the financial sector have attracted more global investors to China's high-quality growth.
Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai said Friday that the trade imbalance between China and the United States cannot and will not last in the long run.
Many Chinese people have been pondering over what presents to get for their beloved moms on the Mother's Day, but very few know that Mother’s Day is actually a festival bought in from overseas.
Retired tennis superstar Li Na has signed a contract with the Wuhan Open to extend her global ambassadorship for the WTA Premier 5 event held in her home city, organizers announced on Sunday.
China's macro leverage growth will likely continue to slow, said the People's Bank of China (PBOC), the country's central bank.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday praised Pyongyang's announcement to dismantle its nuclear test site, saying it was "a very smart and gracious gesture."
A kite show is held in Urumqi, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Saturday, May 12, 2018.
China's first home-built aircraft carrier leaves Dalian in northeast China's Liaoning Province for sea trials on May 13, 2018. (Xinhua/Li Gang)
Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai warned that some people in the United States are trying to place a "glass curtain" between the two countries.
Local students perform during the 2018 Chinese Culture Day celebrations in Melbourne, Australia, May 11, 2018. (Xinhua/Gui Qing)
Photo taken on May 11, 2018 shows programmed robots at the Third Silk Road International Exposition and the Investment and Trade Forum for Cooperation between East and West China in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province. The event opened here on Friday.
Researchers from Columbia University have developed a new technique with the powerful gene editing tool CRISPR to restore retinal function in mice afflicted by a degenerative retinal disease.
The Chinese embassy in Myanmar has called for parties concerned to exercise restraint for an immediate ceasefire and take concrete and effective measures to prevent the worsening of the situation, following the outbreak of a fresh conflict between the Myanmar armed forces, police and armed groups in Muse Township, northern Myanmar, on Saturday.
Audio evidence of human experiments and germ war crimes by Japan's notorious Unit 731 and Unit 100 has officially been archived at a museum in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province.
An undated photo of President Xi Jinping walking with his mother. The photo is on Xi's bookshelves in his office. [Photo/Xinhua]
China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier set out from a port for sea trials Sunday morning.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) announced Saturday that it will hold a ceremony for the dismantling of its nuclear test site on May 23-25, taking a step forward towards the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
A man randomly attacked bystanders with a knife on Saturday night in central Paris, Paris prefecture confirmed.
A memorial activity commemorating Wenchuan earthquake victims and the rescue operation was held in Yingxiu county in southwest China's Sichuan Province Saturday afternoon.
A trade war between China and the United States would be devastating to global economy, and constructive approaches are needed to resolve trade frictions, according to a joint report released Saturday by Chinese and U.S. think tanks.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif left Tehran for Beijing early Sunday for talks on the 2015 nuclear deal following the recent U.S. exit from the agreement, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said.
Iraqis voted on Saturday in the first parliamentary election after winning a four-year war with the Islamic State (IS) group, hoping that the war-torn country would embrace new changes to heal division, fight corruption and improve governance.
Eight railway construction worker couples and their attendants pose for photo before a group wedding in southwest China's Chongqing, May 11, 2018.
Wild birds sport in the waters of Ulansuhai Nur in Bayannur, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, May 11, 2018. Each year, around 6 million wild birds dwell in the wetland region due to its habitable environment.
When the magnitude 8 earthquake struck southwest China's Sichuan Province 10 years ago on May 12, it left 87,000 people dead or missing, and created hundreds of orphans.
China will have over 4.45 million registered nurses by 2020, according to statistics ahead of the International Nurses Day, which falls on May 12 every year.
Photo taken on May 11, 2018 shows sunset striking the terraced fields in Shake Village of Huanyuan County, central China's Hunan Province.
See how villagers build wooden Diaojiaolou, a tradition kind of house in S China's Guangxi Province.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and visiting South Korea Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha said here Friday that they are looking forward to the summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and top leader of Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong-un.
The fifth Tianjin international design week kicked off in Tianjin, north China on May 11, 2018. The design week will last until May 18.
Former Malaysian Prime Minster Najib Razak said Saturday that he is stepping down as head of his United Malays National Organization and the Barisan Nasional coalition following the defeat in the general elections.
Mexico, Canada and the United States have instructed their negotiating teams to continue talks on the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) next week, Mexico's Economy Ministry said on Friday.
More than 5,000 international students attended the fifth Career Fair for International Students in China at Peking University in Beijing on May 12, 2018.
China's livestreaming platform for games, Huya Inc, began its first day of trading on Friday by debuting higher than its offering price, a rosy start for a public company on Wall Street.
DNA tests have confirmed a body retrieved from a river in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou is the suspect in the killing of a female flight assistant, local police said Saturday.
Howard, 91, broke the world record as the oldest ever woman to wingwalk on a bi-plane in Rendcomb, Gloucestershire.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday that China would comprehensively enhance its disaster prevention capabilities to guarantee people's safety and property.
The theme of this year's annual National Book Expo, the country's largest yearly book fair, is "new time, new reading", according to a local official in Shenzhen, the city that will hold the expo from July 19 to 22.
After 249 tons of smuggled frozen meat was seized in Yunnan province, authorities were determined to make sure it would not re-enter the food chain.
China's broad money supply maintained a low growth rate of 8.3 percent in April, along with flat new yuan loan expansion even as policymakers continued financial deleveraging, according to data from the People's Bank of China, the central bank, on Friday.
Growing competition from online e-commerce firms is prompting China's top brick-and-mortar retailers to expand their online presence rapidly, even as smaller format retailers continued to gain strength, notwithstanding their digital challenges and rising costs, a new survey said.
The State Council's nationwide policy inspection mechanism is encouraging local governments to make extraordinarily progress in industrial upgrading and improving people's livelihood, senior officials said.
Beijing said it welcomes the progress made by Washington and Pyongyang in setting up the upcoming summit meeting and expects it to contribute to denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula and regional peace.
Spectators planning to travel by train to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding in Windsor are being urged by a British railway company on Friday to start journeys as early as 4 a.m. (London time).
Zhejiang Geely Holding Group said it is mulling an initial public offering for Volvo Cars, a Swedish carmaker it bought from Ford in 2010.
China is making every effort to rescue the missing noted Bulgarian mountaineer Boyan Petrov, Chinese Ambassador to Bulgaria Zhang Haizhou said on Friday.
WeDoctor Holdings, a medical care portal backed by Tencent Holdings Ltd, will partner with Hong Kong-based insurer AIA Group Ltd to offer insurance products and other services as competition intensifies in China's online healthcare industry.
China's securities regulator on Friday approved the initial public offering (IPO) application from Foxconn Industrial Internet Co.
A total of 15 gang members were sentenced to prison for two to 25 years on Friday for multiple gang-related crimes in east China's Shandong Province.
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the world's third-largest mobile phone maker, is taking a major step toward commercializing blockchain technology with the release of a bitcoin wallet on its AppGallery.
Huya, a Chinese live-streaming platform for video games and e-sports, rang the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) opening bell on Friday in celebration of its initial public offering (IPO).
Korea's Todd Baek (65-74) and England's Stephen Lewton (70-69) shared the clubhouse lead of 5-under at the Haikou Championship on Friday when play was suspended at 7:07 pm due to darkness.
U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the United States out of the Iran nuclear deal and reimposed sanctions on the Middle East country on Tuesday. The deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, was signed by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (the U.S., Russia, China, Britain and France), Germany and Iran in Vienna on July 14, 2015, after 18 months of negotiations, and immediately approved by the Security Council.
State-owned enterprises that are heavily indebted should bring their debt levels down to "reasonable levels as soon as possible", urged a high-profile central meeting on Friday that was presided over by President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.
With China and India forging a closer partnership, tour operators are excited about the fast development of the China-India tourism market.
