Top Chinese leaders watched a New Year gala featuring traditional opera performance on Wednesday evening in Beijing. Leaders of the Communist Party of China and the state, including Xi Jinping, Li Keqiang, Zhang Dejiang, Yu Zhengsheng, ...
Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III has approved the country's participation in the China-initiated Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), senior government officials said Wednesday. Presidential Communications Operations ...
Tags: AIIB
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday called for promoting patriotism to achieve the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Xi made the remarks during a group study for the history of Chinese nation's patriotism by the Political ...
Tags: President Xi, Patriotism
Chinese police have taken stronger action against online rumors about terrorist attacks, the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) said in a statement on Wednesday. According to the statement, five people have been detained for spreading ...
Tags: Police, Online Terrorist Attack
China on Wednesday lowered its current account surplus for the third quarter and revised its estimate for the capital and financial account from a deficit to a surplus. The third-quarter surplus under the current account was cut to 60.3 ...
China refuted recent U.S. comments warning Europe against granting China market economy status on Wednesday, saying China has been living up to its World Trade Organization (WTO) obligations. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang ...
Tags: Market Economy Status
Myanmar authorities announced Wednesday that a consortium of six foreign group companies, led by China's CITIC, has won the bid for implementing two projects of the country's newly planned special economic zone (SEZ) in Kyaukphyu, western ...
Tags: Six-Company, Implementing SEZ
Macao's Gross National Income (GNI) at current prices amounted to 380.23 billion patacas (about 47.63 billion U.S. dollars) in 2014, up 6.7 percent year-on-year in real terms, the region's Statistics and Census Service(DSEC) said in a press ...
Tags: Per Capita Income, Macao
China's outstanding foreign debt settled at 1.53 trillion U.S. dollars by the end of September, data from the country's forex regulator showed on Wednesday. Most of the debt owed to foreign creditors resulted from short-term borrowing, as ...
Tags: External Debt
Leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine stressed Wednesday the importance of the "full implementation" of the Minsk Protocal in 2016. French President Francois Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir ...
Tags: Minsk Protocol
Three scientists share 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Wednesday. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015 was awarded jointly to Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar "for mechanistic studies ...
Tags: Nobel Prize, Chemistry
Swedish researchers said on Wednesday they had taken steps towards developing a more efficient drug to fight alcoholism by tweaking the brain's reward system. A dopamine stabilizer reduces alcohol cravings in humans and normalizes the ...
Tags: Fight Alcoholism, Drug
The State Council, China's Cabinet, on Wednesday decided to improve broadband in rural and remote areas. Stronger telecom services will help attract investment and fuel coordinated development, narrowing the gap between urban and rural ...
Tags: Telecom Services, Remote Areas
China on Wednesday morning put a new communication satellite into orbit from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Center. The "ChinaSat 2C" satellite was launched at 12:25 a.m. and carried by the Long March-3B carrier rocket. It will ...
Tags: Communication Satellite
The International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday received its first U.S. shipment, including food and Christmas presents, since two private U.S. space firms each recently suffered a failure on their cargo delivery missions, U.S. space ...
Tags: Space Station, U.S.Shipment