- Over 80 percent of the world’s city dwellers breathe poor quality air, increasing their risk of lung cancer and other life-threatening diseases, a…
- Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, plans legal action against Volkswagen over the firm’s emissions scandal
- Vancouver - The majority owner of a Point Grey mansion that was sold earlier this year by Canaccord founder Peter Brown for a record $31.1 million is…
- he first imported case of Zika virus infection in Beijing was reported on Sunday, the capital’s health and family planning commission said in a statement
- Almost all of the talent Apple acquired from the original Siri team has reportedly left the company, with a pair of key departures having taken place in recent weeks
- A student from Central China’s Hunan province will become the first Chinese student to deliver a commencement speech at Harvard University on May 26, 2016
- China said on last Thursday the door for dialogue with the Philippines on the South China Sea is always open, refuting the country's argument that…
- Three times we have asked and three times we have been told: Bill Gates is the most admired man in the world
- 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 Japanese government will further ease visa requirements for Chinese citizens as part of its plan to attract 40 million foreign tourists every year by 2020
- Chinese nationals became the largest foreign buyers of US homes last year as they pour billions into American real estate, seeking safe offshore assets, according to a new study
- The five-year plan will see the autonomous cars, vans and buses slowly introduced to the eastern city of Wuhu
- Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc
- Nearly 60 percent of working mothers in China don't want to have a second child, according to a report on the nation's career women
- The day had begun with the usual hazards: chronic shortages of antibiotics, intravenous solutions, even food
- The American Institute in Taiwan on last Friday released the names of delegation members who are to represent the US at president-elect Tsai…
- Kim Jong Un made a major declaration during North Korea's seventh congress of the Workers' Party: His country would only use nuclear weapons if its…
- An 11th Century letter has set a new record price for a work of Chinese calligraphy, fetching 207m yuan ($32m) at an auction in Beijing
- A two-year old girl was rescued in central China’s Henan Province early Sunday morning, 32 hours after she was abducted, thanks to a new online platform
- In Vietnam, pig prices have fallen recently following a sudden drop in buying by Chinese traders, with some Vietnamese farmers left in debt, according to media reports
- China’s ICBC Standard Bank, the world’s biggest bank by assets, has agreed to buy a massive vault in London
- There are some human attributes robots could never replace - or at least that’s what you might hope
- Spokesman Lu Kang made the remarks at a daily press briefing in response to claims that the Philippines initiated arbitration due to the two…
- The number of university graduates reached 7.65 million in 2016, hitting a new historic high, the Beijing News reported
- Didi Chuxing, China’s largest ride-hailing company, has made no secret of its admiration for Apple
- The global review sets out a plan for preventing medicine "being cast back into the dark ages" that requires billions of dollars of investment
- A neonatal doctor at Yongkang First People’s Hospital in eastern China’s Zhejiang province administered the anti-impotence drug Viagra to a preterm…
- Virtual Reality (VR) has been with us for many decades - at least as an idea - but the technology has now come of age
- He’s one of China’s wealthiest and most influential men, but when Alibaba founder Jack Ma visited the White House on Tuesday, there was far less…
- An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo has disappeared from radar with 66 people on board, the airline says
- The Chinese authorities on Tuesday named a number of well-known IT companies, including leading search engine Baidu and social media giant Sina,…
- Chinese people won't be able to quench their thirst with a refreshing "face book" beverage, after the U.S
- Microsoft is shutting down its Chinese web portal, MSN China next month, according to the reports of the Wall Street Journal
- The first quantum communications satellite developed by China is expected to launch in July of this year
- BEIJING May 21 AP - China has arrested 135 people in 22 provinces for illegally buying and selling vaccines, in the latest scandal shaking the…
- The World Health Organization is calling for drug-resistant infections to be tackled globally, and says 10 million people could die each year by…
- Eighty years after it was shut off to the world, New York has reopened a secret woodland sanctuary a stone’s throw from Fifth Avenue, just in time for summer
- The trip comes amid warming ties between the countries as the US seeks to build relations with Pacific allies
- During a meeting on philosophy and social science on May 17, Chinese President Xi Jinping said the country needs its own theoretical structure to…
- Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has struck a partnership with Chinese payment service Alipay, to expand Samsung Pay in the world's largest smartphone market
- Chinese students who aim to further their higher education in the European Union (EU) will benefit from an extension of at least nine months of stay…
- President Barack Obama has signed legislation sponsored by a Queens congresswoman, which removes the term “Oriental” from federal law
- China on Monday said it will work with India to speed up negotiations on the boundary issue prior to Indian President Pranab Mukherjee’s state visit
- One year after KFC brought back Colonel Sanders, business is better than it had been in years
- Almost all of the talent Apple acquired from the original Siri team has reportedly left the company, with a pair of key departures having taken place in recent weeks
- Chinese actress Yang Ying, better known by her stage name Angelababy, has become the youngest ambassador for WildAid, an environmental organization…
- The Yangtze River Delta is set to build a global reputation for its cluster of cities by 2030 by focusing on high-end equipment manufacturing and…
- The Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) recently released its 2015 survey results, which show that of its more than 5,000 underground water…
- The Hollywood star Angelina Jolie has been appointed visiting professor at the London School of Economics (LSE), where she will teach a Masters in gender and human rights
- Whatever happened to the human touch?
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