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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday highlighted the extraordinary achievements women have made in the society and the challenges they face globally, calling for joint efforts to promote gender equality and women's development around the world.
China on Saturday launched a digital museum of the Diaoyu Islands at www.diaoyudao.org.cn, a special website about the Diaoyu Islands.
Chinese President Xi Jinping extended on Saturday his wish of a speedy recovery to his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, and First Lady Melania Trump.
TV news channels in Thailand on Saturday played video clips with quotes from former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra affirming that he had already recovered from COVID-19 infection.
U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign manager Bill Stepien tested positive for COVID-19 on Friday.
U.S. President Donald Trump is taking Remdesivir, a COVID-19 drug made by biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences, as a treatment, White House physician Sean Conley said on Friday.
A US House Republican-led task force unveiled an expansive report to crack down on China weeks before the presidential election, which critics denounced for shifting the public's focus away from the government's mishandling of the pandemic.
With a 60-80 percent decline in international tourism foreseen for 2020, and a drop of between 910 billion and 1.2 trillion U.S. dollars in exports, over 100 million direct tourism jobs are at risk, the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) warned on Saturday.
China's box-office revenue so far this year has hit 10 billion yuan (about 1.47 billion U.S. dollars), movie-ticketing and film-data platform Maoyan said Saturday.
Italy's fashion industry has recognized the importance of the Chinese market for decades, according to key sector officials. But they say the market has never been as important as it will be in the coming years.
The eight-day National Day holiday, overlapping the Mid-Autumn Festival, is set to provide a spending boom, boding well for China's economic recovery.
The European Union (EU) launched an infringement procedure against the United Kingdom (UK) on Thursday over a contentious bill that allegedly breaches the Brexit deal reached by the two sides in January 2020.
China's trade structure has further improved as the country's service trade deficit continued to narrow in the first eight months of this year, data from the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) showed Thursday.
Visitors ambled by the Yellow Crane Tower, a landmark scenic spot in Wuhan, Hubei Province, as part of a night tour on Thursday. It was the first day of an eight-day national holiday.
China's railways saw 15.09 million passenger trips on Thursday, a record high for the period since the start of the COVID-19 epidemic, due to the National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday, which runs from Oct. 1 to 8.
With the regular measures to prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic still in place, peace and joy have once again become the keywords of the first National Day holiday since the implementation of the national security law in Hong Kong.
The Australian State of Victoria is undertaking a massive airborne reseeding program to boost the recovery of forests following last summer's historic bushfires.
The Japanese Health Ministry's advisory body on Friday approved a policy to provide all members of the public in Japan with a free dose of vaccine against COVID-19 in a move aimed at tackling the spread of the virus.
A scenic site in North China's Shanxi province has been closed and its administrators are under investigation by police after a fire at the site killed 13 people on the first day of the eight-day National Day holiday, local authorities said on Friday.
Chinese college students returning to campus have found uninvited guests in their dorms, which have been unoccupied for eight months due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A 407-year old pear tree in Northwest China's Gansu Province that was hollowed out by fire was found to still be full of life and able to bear fruit, media reported on Monday.
"We found evidence that Conospermum plants have adapted the biochemistry of their pollen grains to cope with the antimicrobial properties of the ants," Delnevo said.
A fan has won the chance to have dinner, or work out, with NFL superstar Tom Brady as well as a pack of Tampa Bay Buccaneers opening-game tickets and memorabilia after a making winning bid of $800,000 at a fundraising auction.
A new China body image trend is sweeping Chinese social media after a Chinese actress launched a new collarbone challenge, which is standing a lipstick container on her collarbone, on her Sina Weibo account.
Lots of Chinese netizens have uploaded numerous photos of delicious dishes and recipes on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo that they have come up with while staying at home amid the ongoing outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
ADF personnel were called in to assist local police and security forces in conducting the hotel quarantine and containment of the virus to ensure it did not spread to the local community.
China and India are holding the 19th meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on China-India Border Affairs, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson confirmed Wednesday.
China's largest patrol vessel was launched at a shipyard in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Tuesday.
The Armenian Defense Ministry said on Sunday that it has shot down two helicopters and three drones of Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
China will do "whatever it takes" to thwart any effort aimed at Taiwan seceding from China, Senior Colonel Tan Kefei, spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, said on Thursday.
The first 10 female flight students trained by the People's Liberation Army Ground Force are expected to graduate and join operational units in 2021.
The China-developed Wing Loong-2 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has completed the country's first large UAV-supported emergency communication exercise, the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), its developer, announced Saturday.
A team of Chinese researchers has discovered a new species of Apocynaceae in southwest China's Yunnan Province and named it Hoya gaoligongensis, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration (NFGA) said.
The China National Space Administration released mid-flight images of Mars probe Tianwen 1 as the country's National Day coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival on Thursday.
The Phase 1 trial of an investigational mRNA vaccine to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection has shown that the vaccine is well-tolerated and generates a strong immune response in older adults, according to a newly published study.
Chinese President Xi Jinping proposed upholding multilateralism and building synergy for global governance on the environment.
As the world is still grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese companies have taken multiple measures to help African countries combat another major threat to public health -- malaria.
Egyptian Tourism and Antiquities Ministry on Saturday unveiled 59 newly-discovered well-preserved ancient coffins in Giza Province near the capital Cairo.
China's box-office revenue so far this year has hit 10 billion yuan (about 1.47 billion U.S. dollars), movie-ticketing and film-data platform Maoyan said Saturday.
Visitors ambled by the Yellow Crane Tower, a landmark scenic spot in Wuhan, Hubei Province, as part of a night tour on Thursday. It was the first day of an eight-day national holiday.
An Egyptian archeological mission unearthed on Thursday a carved statuette of ancient Egyptian god Nefertum at Saqqara necropolis of Giza province near the capital Cairo, said the Egyptian ministry of tourism and antiquities in a statement.
From elaborate rituals to eating mooncakes, Mid-Autumn Festival customs have gradually changed over recent centuries. However, the modern version of the holiday still includes traditions and rituals that date back thousands of years
Chinese animated film "Jiang Ziya," also known as "Legend of Deification," opened Thursday in a limited theatrical release in North America on the occasion of China's National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival.
Chinese swimmers broke the world record of the mixed 4X100m medley relay in 3 minutes 38.41 seconds at the Chinese national swimming championships in Qingdao on Thursday.
The 2020 China Youth Ice Hockey Tournament Division U12 began in Xining on Thursday, the first domestic ice hockey tournament since the beginning of 2020.
The Tokyo Olympic torch relay will start on March 25, 2021, in Fukushima Prefecture, organizers of the Tokyo Games said on Monday.
World No. 1 Novak Djokovic on Saturday discussed his disqualification from this month's US Open and vowed not to make such a mistake again.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Tokyo 2020 Organisers agreed Friday on about 50 simplification measures to reduce the cost for the postponed Olympic Games.
From 11,500 to 5,000, and now it has been reduced again - the maximum limit of attendees per day at this year's French Open has shrunk to only 1,000 in response to the resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic in and around Paris, French Prime Minister Jean Castex said on Thursday.
Panda cubs celebrated their first birthday with cakes and presents at a party in Southwest China's Sichuan Province on September 16, 2020.
Legendary giant panda Lei Lei died at the age of 31 due to epileptic seizure on Wednesday, the China Giant Panda Conservation and Research Center announced on Thursday night through Sina Weibo.
A 3-year-old panda named Fu Xing, or Lucky Star, at the Beijing Zoo has attracted public attention recently because it's losing fur on its head.
Mei Xiang's cub, who was born earlier this month, is "growing nicely," Michael Brown-Palsgrove, curator of Asia Trail and giant pandas with the Smithsonian's National Zoo here, said on Monday.
An infrared camera in a nature reserve in northwest China's Gansu Province has captured wild pandas urinating on a tree to attract spouses.
Mei Xiang and her new cub appear to be "very healthy," Laurie Thompson, assistant curator of giant pandas with the Smithsonian's National Zoo here, told Xinhua on Saturday.
