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- Starbucks says it plans to enter probably its most intimidating market yet: Italy
- An American college student detained in North Korea has publicly confessed to attempting to steal a political banner from a Pyongyang hotel
- Facebook has learned from Germany to include migrants as a class of people that needed to be protected from "hate speech" online, Chief Executive…
- People seeking employment in China may face greater pressure to find a job this year as the country’s economy continues to face downward pressure, a senior official said on Monday
- Hillary Clinton: "We don’t need to make America great again - America has never stopped being great"
- The Chinese government said Monday it was planning to shed 1.8 million coal and steel jobs in an effort to reduce excess capacity
- One of Google’s self-driving cars crashed into a bus in California last month
- Beijing boasts the world’s second-largest number of most valuable tech startups, showcasing its advance in the sector
- An Australian telescope used to broadcast live vision of man’s first steps on the moon in 1969 has found hundreds of new galaxies hidden behind the…
- Beijing may sell automobile license plates by auction instead of the current lottery system from April, as one of planned new measures to ease the city’s traffic congestion
- The first Harbin–Russia international cargo train carrying 47 cargo containers started operation from Harbin, the capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang province, on Feb
- Thank you all so very much
- Chinese cinemas took a record 6.87 billion yuan (about $1.05 billion) in ticket sales in February, with the monthly box office overtaking that of…
- As the annual sessions of National People’s Congress (NPC) and Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), also referred as the “two…
- A Reuters exclusive on Tuesday revealed that US, Canadian, German and Japanese ambassadors to China wrote a joint letter in late January addressed to…
- The vote against North Korea at the Security Council was overwhelming
- China will gradually raise its statutory retirement age over the coming years in a bid to combat the effects of an aging population
- China’s 13th five-year plan, to be reviewed at the upcoming parliamentary session, will be "good news" to Hong Kong and Macao, a spokesperson with…
- US ratings agency Moody’s has cut its outlook for China from "stable" to "negative"
- Ford Motor is looking beyond making and selling cars and trucks into becoming a customer-oriented mobility solutions provider
- A piece of debris found along the eastern African coast between Mozambique and Madagascar may be from the tail section of the Malaysia Airlines plane…
- A press conference was held ahead of the annual session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee in Beijing on March 2, 2016
- Google’s charitable arm has donated $1m (?710,000) to Unicef to help stop the spread of the Zika virus
- Men with prostate cancer who follow a vegan lifestyle are more likely to recover from the disease than men who have both products from both plant and animal sources in their meals
- A profile of diplomatic interpreter Yao Mengyao
- A new study conducted by relationship researchers from Wellesley and the University of Kansas says that opposites don't attract
- Spring poetry across Chinese and English
- (ECNS) -- Men with lower educational qualifications and women with higher ones are more prone to being single in China, researchers have shown
- A best-selling blood pressure app gives false readings almost 80 per cent of the time, according to a new study
- China needs a specific law to regulate overseas non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the legislation is not aimed at restricting NGOs’ lawful…
- BEIJING, March 4-- For millions of Chinese, retirement is still a long while off, however,their concerns for it have arrived a lot sooner than expected
- Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, has warned that a "Pandora’s box" will be opened if Apple co-operates with the FBI
- At least 10 million rural residents will be lifted out of poverty this year as the solemn promise of poverty alleviation is delivered upon, Premier Li Keqiang said
- A TV host and deputy to the 12th National People’s Congress has called for Regulation of reality shows that have dominated Chinese TV in recent…
- Beijing will "resolutely curb" secessionist activities seeking "Taiwan independence" in any form, and will never let the historic tragedy of…
- Nobody likes being monitored
- Former star hurdler Liu Xiang has called for placing greater importance on physical education to improve students’ declining fitness
- Teenagers around the world can rejoice with the news that their brain deserves the blame when parents' orders go ignored while they tap on their smartphones
- The popular Chinese animation TV series Calabash Brothers (Hulu Xiongdi) is set to become alive-action film, announced Shanghai Film Group…
- The US and Japan should set up new military headquarters for missions to defend Okinawa and other islands as part of a broad revamp of their…
- Almost 2m Chinese coal and steel workers will lose their jobs because of government policies to cut overcapacity, according to the minister of human…
- Citigroup has struck a $3bn deal to sell an interest in a Chinese lender it took after a takeover battle a decade ago, joining a retreat by western…
- Argentina is poised to return to international capital markets after a 15-year ban as it finally reached agreement with a group of creditors led by…
- A committee recommended Harvard Law School remove its official seal Friday, following months of scrutiny surrounding the symbol that has ties to an 18th-century slave owner
- A new online visa and permit application service for foreigners in Beijing is set to be launched on Tuesday by the city’s Public Security Bureau
- Researchers just announced the discovery of radio signals from beyond our galaxy that are behaving in strange ways
- Washington - Ray Tomlinson, the American programmer widely credited with inventing email, has died
- China’s largest grain producing province will not grow genetically-modified (GM) food, the head of Northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province reiterated…
- China’s chief economic planner said the world’s second biggest economy will "absolutely not experience a hard landing" despite growth forecast cuts
- "Song of Solomon" ends up on many to-read book lists because of the author's 1993 Nobel Prize for literature, and because the book itself won the…
