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French high-end department store Galeries Lafayette will open its second China store in Shanghai by the end of this year.
Chinese actors perform during the Peking Opera named "The Monkey King Making Havoc in Heaven" inside the Cultural Center of the Philippines in Pasay City, the Philippines.
Visitors participate in an experiment at a lab of the Institute of Physics in the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Beijing, capital of China.
People visit the light show at Amina bint Ahmad Al-Ghurair Mosque on the third day of Ramadan in Ajman, the United Arab Emirates, on May 19, 2018.
Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski who was awarded the Best Director poses during a photocall at the 71st Cannes International Film Festival in Cannes, France, on May 19, 2018. The 71st Cannes Film Festival closed on Saturday.
Starbucks has planned an ambitious expansion in the fast-growing Chinese market by doubling its number of coffee shops to 6,000 across China by fiscal 2022.
The World Bank has approved a loan of 150 million U.S. dollars to improve inland waterway transport in central China's Hubei Province, said the World Bank Beijing office Saturday.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that Germany wants to strengthen multilateralism with China and she is looking forward to her visit to China next week.
Cuba confirms in Havana on Saturday that 110 were dead from Friday's Boeing 737 crash close to Havana's Jose Marti International Airport.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday sent condolences to Cuban and Mexican leaders respectively over an airliner crash in Cuba that caused more than 100 deaths.
Chinese President Xi Jinping said the country will fight a good battle against pollution and push ecological civilization to a new level during a tone-setting meeting on environmental protection ending Saturday.
China and the United States issued a joint statement on Saturday on economic and trade consultations, vowing not to launch a trade war against each other.
The UK's Prince Harry and American actress Meghan Markle has tied the knot Saturday at St. George's Chapel in Windsor.
Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday said China and Portugal agree to work as important cooperation partners in implementing the Belt and Road Initiative.
Photo taken on May 18, 2018 shows the architecture structure of an ancient stilt house in Pengjiazhai, Xuan'en County, central China's Hubei Province.
China's second aircraft carrier returns to dock at Dalian Shipyard in Northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 18, 2018, after its first sea trials. The aircraft carrier, the country's first domestically-built one, was launched in April last year and began the sea trials on May 13.
A tea specialist demonstrates tea art during the 2nd China International Tea Expo in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, May 18, 2018. The expo kicked off on Friday.
Photo taken on May 18, 2018 shows Enshi Yulu Tea or Jade Dew Tea in Enshi, central China's Hubei Province. The Jade Dew Tea, originating from the Tang Dynasty and popular during the Qing Dynasty, is one of the very few types of steamed green teas in China. The processing skill of the tea has been listed as a national level intangible cultural heritage in 2014.
Glowing blue water washes up on a beach in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province, on May 19, 2018. Glowing with the shimmering blue light, the shore looked exactly like the starry galaxy.
Tourists view Hukou Waterfall of the Yellow River in Yichuan County, northwest China's Shaanxi provinces, May 18, 2018.
Suffering coronary heart disease, 79-year-old Wang Funi was amazed to find out that she can have her routine medical tests done at her rural home in central China's Henan Province.
This year's World Intelligence Congress underway in north China's Tianjing is focused on Artificial Intelligence, which Chinese authorities say is a new driving force in economic and social development.
China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC) said on Friday that 84 percent of the 250 core standards used in the Fuxing trains, the country's fastest model, were produced domestically and research is underway on even faster trains.
Shanghai Dazhong Taxi and Car Leasing Company tied red ribbons to 200 taxis in their fleet on Friday morning, marking the vehicles as "rose cars" targeted at female passengers, thepaper.cn reports.
Machines that can impeccably synthesize the human voice, assist judges in sentencing, and tell customers whether a dress is a good fit, have been displayed at the second World Intelligence Congress in Tianjin.
The United States space agency NASA said on Friday that its planet hunter, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), was one step closer to searching for new worlds after successfully completing a lunar flyby on Thursday.
Travelers to and children in underdeveloped areas of the world with blood type A suffer more severe symptoms once infected with diarrhea than those with blood type O or B, a study led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows.
One person was killed and two others were injured in a shooting attack near a high school in the U.S. state of Georgia Friday night, local authorities said.
A bank clerk counts cash in Taiyuan, capital of Shanxi province. [Photo by Zhang Yun/China News Service]
No Chinese people were on the passenger plane that crashed in Cuba, Xinhua reported Saturday, citing Cuba's Foreign Ministry.
The People's Liberation Army Air Force landed its H-6K bomber aircraft on an airport in the South China Sea during a recent exercise, marking the first time Chinese bombers have used an airport in the region.
Top legislator Li Zhanshu made an official visit to Namibia from Tuesday to Thursday at the invitation of Peter Katjavivi, speaker of the Namibian National Assembly, and called for closer cooperation between the two countries.
China is calling for all parties to show the greatest degree of calm and restraint in order to ease the current Palestine-Israel conflict, visiting State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in Madrid.
Chinese commercial banks recorded a net foreign exchange purchase in April, and forex market supply and demand remained balanced, the country's forex regulator said Friday.
Ten people were killed and another 10 wounded on Friday when a student armed with a shotgun and a revolver opened fire at a high school in the U.S. state of Texas in the latest incident of gun violence against students.
New technologies that connect museums with the public were announced during the celebration of International Museum Day in Shanghai on Friday.
China's military force has taken vigorous measures to strengthen patrol and safety along its border with Myanmar, a spokesperson for the Ministry of National Defense said Friday.
The Foreign Ministry dismissed a rumor on Friday that China had offered to cut its trade surplus with the United States by $200 billion, saying the trade talks with the United States have so far been constructive and are still underway.
At least three people have been found alive, but in critical condition, after a Boeing 737 passenger plane crashed near Havana on Friday, according to state newspaper Granma.
The European Commission on Friday proposed activation of a dormant statute to shield European firms doing business with Iran from renewed U.S. sanctions.
The death toll from a heavy downpour in northwest China's Gansu Province on Wednesday has risen to eight, local authorities said Friday.
China's MA700 plane, a high-speed turboprop regional aircraft currently in development, is expected to enter the market by 2021, said its developer on Friday.
China is strongly dissatisfied with remarks by a U.S. State Department spokesperson, who spoke out against the Dominican Republic's decision to sever "diplomatic relations" with Taiwan.
With her short film "The Storms in Our Blood," Chinese director Shen Di, from the Shanghai Theater Academy, on Thursday won the second prize from Cinefondation at the 71st Cannes Film Festival.
China is becoming an emerging source market for Dubai's tourism sector and the Middle East city has stepped up partnerships with Chinese firms to tap the world's largest outbound tourism market, according to Dubai's tourism authority.
China has launched a campaign to crack down on cultural organizations that are breaking the law.
U.S. birth and fertility rates both dropped last year to the lowest levels in decades, a report showed Thursday.
China said Friday that it will continue to encourage the United States and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to build mutual trust, and make joint efforts to promote the political resolution of the Korean Peninsula issue.
The constant widening of opening up in China's manufacturing sector will not only help domestic industrial upgrading but benefit all foreign companies, industry experts say.
The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein on Friday warned that the violence in Gaza has reached a peak in the past week, with 60 people had been killed by the Israeli forces in just one day of May 14, a highest figure of one-day death toll in Gaza since the 2014 hostilities.
The world's largest radio telescope is set to get even stronger - the 500-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) will become more sensitive to radio signals once installation of a new 19-beam receiver is complete.
A popular comic in China, Rage Comic, has been taken down from the country's social media and video streaming platforms on Thursday after an episode was criticized of violating China’s law to protect the honor and reputation of heroes and martyrs.
China launched the first demonstration zone for an ultrafast 5G communication network on Thursday in Hongqiao Business District of Shanghai, in the run-up to China International Import Expo.
Chinese electric bicycle manufacturers have been given 11 months to upgrade their products to meet stricter standards released by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on Thursday.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in is scheduled to visit Washington next week to hold a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in a bid to help the upcoming summit between the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the United States become a success.
Tuniu, a popular Chinese online travel agency, plans to seek a total of 30 local partners in overseas tourism destinations in the next three years to tap the country's growing outbound travel market.
U.S. President Donald Trump said Thursday that North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member states who have not met their financial obligations regarding defense will be "dealt with," and specifically called upon Germany to fulfill its obligation.
demonstration zone for an ultrafast 5G communication network on Thursday in Hongqiao Business District of Shanghai
German Chancellor Angela Merkel will pay an official visit to China from May 24 to 25 at the invitation of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, announced Lu Kang, spokesman of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, at a regular press conference on Friday.
An online audio clip has puzzled internet users, going viral on the internet after being posted by a US high school student on social network Reddit.
China plans to launch a relay satellite into space next Monday, May 21, for the Chang'e-4 lunar probe scheduled later this year.
Luoyang, China's city of peonies, exported 17 million yuan ($2.68 million) worth of the flowers in 2017, official data show.
Ash plume rises following a massive volcano eruption on Kilauea volcano in Hawaii, United States, May 15, 2018. Lava is spewing more than 60 meters into the air and spread around 36,000 square meters.
China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Radio Telescope, known as FAST, will shortly complete its latest upgrade. The upgrade will help the telescope see even further into space.
Due to the local Karst landscape and humid climate, a sinkhole more than 290 meters deep in Xuan'en has become home for various plants and animals.
Students look at snake specimen during a popular science event at the Kunming Zoology Museum in Kunming City, Southwest China’s Yunnan Province, May 18, 2018.
China's second aircraft carrier returns to dock at Dalian Shipyard in Northeast China's Liaoning Province, May 18, 2018, after its first sea trials. The aircraft carrier, the country's first domestically-built one, was launched in April last year and began the sea trials on May 13.
Alibaba’s Hema Fresh market, which features seafood, prepared food and groceries, aims to diversify its catering offerings by working with regional restaurant operators.
Photo taken Russian wildlife photographer Sergey Gorshkov on Wrangel Island in Russia shows the tenacity of Arctic fox, which typically feeds on lemmings but also can’t resist the urge to forage for goose eggs.
China Charity Federation (CCF), one of the country's most influential charity organizations, received 21.8 billion yuan ($3.42 billion) in donations, both money and goods, in 2017, the federation said Friday.
Silk Road, Flower Rain makes use of Chinese and Persian motifs to tell a story of love, adventure and discovery.
China will push for the resolving of the Palestinian issue based on the Two-State Solution amid dialogue together with the international community, said Chinese State Counselor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi commenting on Thursday.
Local brands dominated the list of the top 10 most chosen brands in China as new entrants successfully expanded their customer bases with new product launches, a recent report says.
People travel in a children's train due to the lack of public transport on May 2, 2018, in Maracaibo, Venezuela.
Archaeologists have found the remains of a horse for the first time in the ancient city of Pompeii which was buried under ash and lava after Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D..
Military personnel take part in a dress rehearsal of the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle outside Windsor Castle on May 17, 2018 in Windsor, England.
Online video platform iQiyi, which issued its Nasdaq IPO to raise US$2.25 billion in March, plans to establish a digital entertainment empire through business expansion and technology upgrades, including VR and AI technologies.
Machines that can impeccably synthesize the human voice, assist judges in sentencing, and tell customers whether a dress is a good fit, have been displayed at the second World Intelligence Congress in Tianjin.
The country will ban propagandizing gaokao zhuangyuan (the title given to the student with the highest score in the national college entrance examinations) after this year's test, which falls on June 7 and 8.
Photo taken on May 17, 2018 shows relics on display at the Shaanxi History Museum in Xi’an City, the capital of Northwest China’s Shaanxi Province.
Illegal activities have led to the closure of 20,000 online food providers that did business on China’s three major web platforms – Ele.me, Meituan and Baidu – following a recent supervision campaign, according to the Beijing Food and Drug Administration.
Centuries before it became the sub-administrative center for the Beijing municipal government, the Tongzhou District was once a major granary storage site and commercial hub for the Yuan (1279-1368), Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1911) dynasties.
The global warehouse robotics market is expected to grow by 11.6 percent in the next five years to reach 5.186 billion U.S. dollars by 2023, a market research agency said Thursday.
The UN peacekeeping force has been clearing mines for nearly 40 years in south Lebanon, a place suffering deeply from war.
Over the past months, many new energy vehicle (NEV) manufacturers in China have found themselves in an unfamiliar situation: sales continue to increase, but profits are significantly declining.
Residents of South China's Hainan Province have high expectations for the island's economy after the central government announced plans in mid-April to build the southern province into a free trade port by 2025.
China's second aircraft carrier returned to dock at Dalian Shipyard in northeast China's Liaoning Province, Friday noon after its first sea trials.
Tens of dishes and snacks made using lichee fruit are on show at Qilou Street, a tourist attraction in Haikou City, South China’s Hainan Province, May 17, 2018.
Ancient DNA has proved to archaeologists that the first farmers in Southeast Asia were migrants from South China.
The number of confirmed Ebola cases of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has added up to 14 after the Health Ministry announced 11 new confirmed cases and one new related death in the country's northwest as the lethal infectious disease spreads.
Three grottoes in Dunhuang, Northwest China's Gansu province, have been replicated at Shanghai Tower, the world's second-tallest building, as part of a 10-month-long exhibition.
Kim Jong Un, the top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), demanded the troops provide support for the country's economic construction, official media reported Friday.
Sichuan hot pot restaurant chain Haidilao is looking to spice up its global expansion by listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, after filing an application on Thursday.
China's first domestically-built aircraft carrier has concluded its maiden sea trial on Friday, and is returning to Dalian Shipyard in northeast China's Liaoning Province, according to reports by Xinhua.
More than 100 Chinese listed companies have begun disclosing their efforts in environmental protection, an indication of growing awareness to go green among businesses, Shanghai Securities News reported Thursday.
Ultrafast 5G communication networks are getting a test-run prior to an eventual market rollout, and experts believe the short-video industry is on the verge of massive growth as a result.
As an imperial residence, the Forbidden City, a massive palace complex in central Beijing, has historically been off-limits.
The Emperor Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum in northwest China's Shaanxi Province and U.S.-based Johnson & Johnson's pharmaceutical subsidiary in China co-launched a project Thursday to protect cultural relics.
Anti-drug authorities from member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Thursday pledged to enhance cooperation, as drug manufacturing and smuggling have spread across the world.
Even as they see great prospects for expansion in the air cargo business in China, global carriers are finding themselves in the crosshairs of a deepening trade conflict between China and the U.S.
China and the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) on Thursday signed an agreement on trade and economic cooperation, the first major systematic arrangement ever reached between the two sides.
Hu Erling shows her homemade price tags at a vegetables market in Lanzhou City, the capital of Northwest China’s Gansu Province, May 17, 2018.
Some European politicians have criticized the closed-door session in which Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg will appear before the European Parliament.
Chinese scientists have developed a super-thin glass just 0.12 millimeters thick, or thinner than two pieces of printer paper.
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday ruled out the use of the so-called "Libya model" in efforts to pursue denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, saying that was not the model for the talks with Pyongyang.
