Researchers from Oxford University, the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Chinese Centre for Disease Control conducted two large, nationally representative studies, fifteen years apart. They calculate the annual number of tobacco deaths ha...
More than a thousand Chinese who took the International English Language Testing System test in July and August have been told their results would be delayed or permanently withheld. The cancellation affects examinees mainly based in Changsha, Hunan...
BERLIN, Oct. 10 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of people protested in Berlin on Saturday against a free trade deal under negotiations between the United States and the European Union (EU). Protesters including civil rights groups, environmentalists, labor uni...
The latest data from Chinese health authorities shows around 15-percent of the population in China, or as many as 200-million people in China, suffer from some form of mental health issues. Of them, more than 4-million are believed to be suffering fr...
The chill that has kept two of the most prominent American and Chinese tech companies out of each others markets has thawed a little, with Google and Huawei joining forces on a new flagship smartphone. 将美国和中国高科技企业中最出色的两...
Despite Chinas faltering growth, Costa Rica is looking to Beijing to help it plug a growing hole in its public accounts, as it starts talks on the sale of a $1bn bond. 尽管中国经济增长乏力，但哥斯达黎加还是希望中国帮助填补其...
China's two online-to-offline service providers Meituan.com and Dianping.com have merged. The 15-billion-U.S. dollar new company will run on a co-CEO basis and keep the original structure of their respective human resources departments. Meituan and D...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Volkswagen's top U.S. executive offered apology for emission cheating scandal in front of U.S. lawmakers on Thursday but no remedy schedule was announced. On behalf of our company, and my colleagues in Germany, I would...
The most high-profile scandal took place at a restaurant in the coastal city of Qingdao. A tourist from Nanjing, surnamed Zhu, complained about being overcharged for a seafood dinner. He asked us to pay over 21-hundred yuan when we finished the meal....
US satellite observations have produced the first strong evidence for water flowing on Mars. 美国卫星观测找到了火星表面存在液态水的首批强有力证据。 The water is a brine saturated in salts such as perchlorates. As it seeps d...
Little Door Gods, an animation film about Chinese celestial beings, will be screened across the nation on New Year's Day next year. 一部关于中国神仙的动画电影--《小门神》，将会于明年新年在全国上映播放 The film by Ligh...
WASHINGTON, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Wednesday said she does not support the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal, reached on Monday after marathon talks between the United States and 11 Pa...
The Wall Street Journal reports that central banks including China, Russia and Brazil are selling U.S. government bonds at the fastest pace on record. It's also being reported that China's central bank has stepped up its selling of U.S. treasuries in...
Dr Matshidiso Moeti, Regional Director of the World Health Organization's Africa Region, says Tu Youyou's development of a treatment for malaria has been a life-saver. As you know Malaria is one of the biggest killers of African people, particularly...
Peru is home to the Quelccaya ice cap, the largest tropical glacier on Earth that is located at approximately 5100m above sea level. But it is shrinking. The Andean nation has 71 percent of the world's tropical glaciers, but the Peruvian glaciers hav...
