Chinas ship Yuanrui Yang, is the worlds first Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) dual-fuel crude oil tanker. (Photo: CMG)Chinas shipping giant China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO) claimed Monday that the worlds first Very Large Crude Carrier (VLCC) Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG[More]
TOKYO, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Tokyo stocks closed sharply lower Friday, with the benchmark Nikkei stock index falling over 3 percent at one point.The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average plunged 591.80 points, or 2.23 percent, from Thursday to close the day at 25,985.47.The broader Topix index of all First S[More]
BEIJING, March 2 (Xinhua) - China has made continued efforts to forestall and defuse financial risks while supporting steady economic recovery, said the countrys top banking regulator Wednesday.(Photo: scio.gov.cn)In 2021, with threats in salient areas controlled, the macro leverage ratio decreased [More]
Tensions between Ukraine and Russia could fuel instability in the Middle East in the long run, experts said, as the conflict-ridden region has already been feeling the pressure of inflation prior to the tensions in Europe.[More]
Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida on Monday said it is completely "unacceptable" for Japan to make a nuclear sharing deal with the United States.[More]
A photo shows syringes with BioNTech vaccine at a pharmacy in Duesseldorf, western Germany, on February 7, 2022, amid a surge of infections during the ongoing coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. (File photo: AFP)Canada has become the first country to authorize use of a plant-based COVID-19 vaccine.Cana[More]
The average cost of raising a child until the age of 18 was 485,000 yuan ($76,556) in China in 2019, which was 6.9 times China's GDP per capita, much higher than many countries including the US, France, Germany and Japan, according to a new report released on Tuesday.[More]
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivers an important speech while attending the central conference on work related to overall law-based governance held in Beijing, capital of Chin[More]
BEIJING, Feb. 20 (Xinhua) -- International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach declared the Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games closed here on Sunday.Bach called the Beijing Winter Olympics "truly exceptional" in his speech at the closing ceremony held at the National Stadium.&am[More]