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- Do you ever think that it’s kinda crazy that we can order pizza from our cellphones and yet no one can figure out how to stop (or at least slow) the inevitable march towards death?
- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks as the Action Day event of the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) closes at Le Bourget on…
- The Finnish government is currently drawing up plans to introduce a national basic income
- Time magazine on Wednesday named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its person of the year for 2015, hailing her leadership during debt and refugee…
- China’s president, Xi Jinping, has visited 10 countries on four continents and attended nine international conferences
- Glaciers on Mount Qomolangma have shrunk by 28 percent over the past 40 years due to climate change, according to a report released over the weekend
- The nation’s leading mobile-based car-hailing services provider Didi Kuaidi on Monday announced a special offer for its new ride-sharing services…
- ？Some puzzling studies appear to show that tiny airborne particles may contribute to obesity, diabetes and heart disease
- Recently, a map of China’s top ten gathering places for singles became an internet hit
- The opposition in Venezuela has won a majority of seats in the National Assembly, overturning nearly two decades of dominance by the Socialists of President Nicolas Maduro
- The phone maker, which partnered with video game company Valve for its virtual reality headset, delays the device to next year
- 10%。The graying of the population could shrink the number of working-age adults by more than 10 percent in China by 2040, a report from the World Bank said on Wednesday
- The Cupertino company on Tuesday joined a cadre of accessory makers and released a new battery case for its smartphone
- British business schools shine in the 2015 Financial Times ranking of European institutions
- A proposal for a shared European border force
- A hacking group said on Thursday it has crashed Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's official website to protest Japan's plans to hunt whales
- The Saudi developer behind plans for the world‘s tallest building said Sunday it had secured financing to complete the record-breaking project
- New York （AFP） - Time magazine on Wednesday named German Chancellor Angela Merkel as its person of the year for 2015， hailing her leadership during…
- China Vanke, the nation’s biggest homebuilder by sales, has welcomed an increased investment by Anbang Insurance, a week after warning that…
- Beijing drivers could face a total of $1.6m ( 1m pound) in fines for breaking driving restrictions during the city’s pollution red alert, Chinese media say
- Paris (AFP) - The Philippines became the first Asian country on Tuesday to approve the sale of the world’s first-ever dengue vaccine
- The U.S
- Local resident Yi Jimin agreed the disaster was not an act of nature."Heavy rains and a collapse of a mountain are natural disasters, but this wasn’t…
- Chinese tech company Huawei announced Tuesday its smartphone shipments have topped 100 million this year, breaking the record among domestic players…
- BEIJING (AP) — A former chairman of the company that publishes one of China’s most prominent business newspapers was sentenced to prison Thursday for…
- There will no longer be any legal obstacle to the implementation of a universal two-child policy, if the draft amendment to the family planning law…
- Officials from South Korea and Japan will meet on Sunday (Dec 27) to prepare for talks between their foreign ministers to settle a row over wartime…
- A mountain of construction debris that swallowed cars and buildings in China was a result of safety violations -- not a natural disaster, state media said
- KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) -- Jamaica’s environment minister says a much-discussed transshipment port is being considered for the Caribbean island’s largest protected area
- Chinese students in the United States are getting an earlier start
- China confirmed the imminent expulsion of a French journalist in the first such case since 2012, accusing her of "flagrantly championing" terrorist…
- The production company of hit TV drama "Legend of Miyue" has issued a statement calling for people to stop spreading illegal downloads of the program
- The question of how to win at rock-paper-scissors has, believe it or not, plagued mathematicians and game theorists for some time
- Chinese state-owned oil company China National Petroleum Corp has concluded a complicated asset shuffle that allows state-owned steel mill Baosteel,…
- A hotline between the Chinese mainland and Taiwan was officially put into operation on Wednesday, and chiefs of cross-Strait affairs from both sides…
- China has deployed three new ships to naval forces stationed in the South China Sea over the weekend, suggesting an enhanced capability for maritime…
- Chinese education authorities announced that they encourage and support eligible universities’ recruitment of students with soccer skills to form high-level soccer teams
- It isn’t every day that a mystery from the deep swims into plain sight
- The Chinese version of Rabindranath Tagore’s Stray Birds translated by renowned Chinese writer Feng Tang was stripped off the shelves today following…
- China has expressed anger after Filipino protesters landed on a remote island controlled by the Philippines in the disputed South China Sea
- China’s government is promising “jobs for the boys” after ordering state-owned enterprises to employ some of the 300,000 soldiers who are being laid…
- The founder and chairman of Hanergy Thin Film, who became one of China’s richest men on paper before shares in his solar power group plunged in May,…
- When the Postal Savings Bank of China announced it had raised $7bn from a group of international investors it marked a significant step towards what…
- Shares in China Telecom fell on Monday after the ruling Chinese Communist party said at the weekend that the state-owned group’s chief executive,…
- China’s government is promising “jobs for the boys” after ordering state-owned enterprises to employ some of the 300,000 soldiers who are being laid…
- Hundreds of South Koreans held a sit-in on Wednesday in front of the Japanese embassy in Seoul to protest against this week’s landmark agreement with…
- Manila (AFP) - The Philippines said Wednesday it will join the China-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, despite being engaged in a dispute…
- The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) said on Monday that it would tighten the regulations on non-banking online payment platforms, to curb risks like…
- China has confirmed it is building its first indigenous aircraft carrier, using entirely domestic technology and tapping its experience in refitting a Ukrainian carrier
- President Xi Jinping looked forward to 2016 in a speech that called for confidence and hard work for a good beginning in the home stretch of building…
