China's proposed Initiative of Peaceful Development in the Horn of Africa could significantly reduce the intensity of conflict and provide respite for millions of people whose fate hangs in the balance against the backdrop of war and underdevelopment.[More]
BEIJING, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday stressed running the military in accordance with the law and enhancing the rule of law in national defense and military building.Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the [More]
Messages to be sent by the Chinese government at the upcoming two sessions on fiscal policies will be closely watched by observers, as the world's second largest economy braces for 2022 with an emphasis on stability for economic development amid multiple challenges.[More]
People walk on the Trocadero Place near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France, March 31, 2021. (File photo: Xinhua)PARIS, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Due to the closure of European Union airspace to Russia, French Foreign Affairs Ministry asked on Sunday its nationals to leave immediately Russia."Due t[More]
File photo: XinhuaNANJING, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) -- Chinese astronomers plan to build a new submillimeter-wave observatory on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, known as "the roof of the world."Proposed by the Nanjing-based Purple Mountain Observatory of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the obs[More]
Following the crisis in Ukraine, major players such as Russia, Ukraine, the United States, United Kingdom, Germany and France are engaging in a war of words, not on Twitter or Facebook but on Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.[More]
In this picture taken on February 6, 2022, disk jockey (DJ) Kei Notoya, who has collected around City Pop 3,000 records, poses for a photo in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo following an interview with AFP. (Photo: AFP)Tel Liyanto wasnt alive during Japans 1980s boom, but she loves the "time[More]
The Peoples Bank of China. (Photo: Agencies)Chinas central bank Wednesday conducted 200 billion yuan (about $31.59 billion) of reverse repos to maintain liquidity in the banking system.The interest rate for the 7-day reverse repos was set at 2.1 percent, according to the Peoples Bank of China.The mo[More]
A person receives a dose of COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination site in Jiangxia District in Wuhan, central Chinas Hubei Province, June 9, 2021. (Xinhua/Xiao Yijiu)BEIJING, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- The number of COVID-19 vaccine doses administered on the Chinese mainland had reached over 3.09 billion by Mo[More]