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
Too much TV and not having enough physical exercise as a young adult were associated with worse cognitive function 25 years later in midlife, showed a study published online Wednesday by U.S. journal JAMA Psychiatry. Researchers at the ...
Tags: TV, Cognitive Function
China's new counter-terrorism law has made it legal for the People's Liberation Army (PLA) to participate in counterterror missions overseas. The PLA and the country's armed police forces may carry out such operations with the approval ...
Huawei Marine Networks is looking to construct a Cameroon-Brazil Cable System (CBCS), connecting Africa to Latin America. The project is invested by CamTel, China Unicom and Telefónica, who will support the initiative by providing ...
Chinese tech companies are making good on President Xi Jinping's promise that China will provide investment and technical support to expand Internet access in developing countries. They are busy advertising international projects and ...
Tags: China's Race
A ground data center that will support China's independent satellite navigation system was given the go-ahead Friday to offer location based services (LBS). Located in central China's Henan Province, the center features 63 data stations ...
The China-proposed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was formally established Friday. Expectations are high for the new global multilateral financial institution, which will operate in an open, fair and efficient manner, AIIB's ...
China has announced it's setting up a new Strategic Emerging Industry Board to attract domestic innovators to seek funding in Chinese exchanges instead of going abroad. Fang Haixing, a deputy chairman of the China Securities Regulatory ...
Tags: New Board
Zhai Ruiren, a doctor in the Eastern coastal city of Qingdao is treating a patient 1,800 kilometers away via the Internet. The patient, 11-year-old Rinchen from Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, has myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), ...
Tags: Internet Plus
On Christmas Eve, U.S. embassy in China issued security warnings for Westerners in Beijing's Sanlitun area, a popular Beijing diplomatic and entertainment district. Thanks to special forces dispatched by the Chinese government, no incidents ...
Tags: Fighting Terrorism, Anti-terrorism
Russia and India vowed on Thursday to enhance military, nuclear and anti-terror cooperation in a bid to promote their "privileged strategic partnership." "Large serial production of anti-ship missiles for India has begun," Russian ...
Tags: Military, Nuclear, Anti-terror
Syria has said it's ready to take part in peace talks in Geneva and hopes that the dialogue will help the country form a national unity government. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem made the statement on Thursday during a visit to ...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has called on secretary-generals and general office directors of government agencies to better serve the operation of governmental organs. Li made the remarks while meeting with participants of a national ...
China's latest efforts to stimulate its economy by deepening structural reform will produce rich "dividends" shared within China's borders and across the world. While the effectiveness of traditional demand-side policy support lessens, ...
Tags: Structural Reform, PRO-growth
China's economy has entered a "new normal" and those fretting over disappointing data in traditional sectors, will have to adapt. The structure of China's economy has changed and traditional measurements, including GDP growth and ...
Tags: economy, new Normal