LONDON, April 9 (Xinhua) -- British Royal Navy survey ship HMS Echo and submarine HMS Tireless continued their hunt for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that went missing on March 8, the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced Wednesday. British...
LONDON, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Following a meeting in Brazil, British Chancellor of Exchequer George Osborne and Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega announced regular economic and financial dialogue between the two countries, according to the Briti...
CARACAS, April 9 (Xinhua) -- The Venezuelan government on Wednesday invited the Vatican State Secretary Cardinal Pietro Parolin to participate in the National Peace Conference led by President Nicolas Maduro, as well as in the talks with the country...
LA PAZ, April 9 (Xinhua) -- Bolivian President Evo Morales Wednesday praised his government's decision to nationalize the energy sector, calling it the main engine driving Bolivia's economic and social development. Speaking at an official event in Pa...
BEIJING, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Smoking is a big problem in China, the world's largest tobacco consumer, and now the World Health Organization (WHO) wants tobacco warning labels to be more vivid. Experts said China's text warnings, such as Smoking is ha...
波黑国际展览会开幕 MOSTAR, Bosnia and Herzegovina, April 8 (Xinhua) -- The International Trade Fair Mostar 2014, the 17th such event, opened here on Tuesday, participated by companies from over 20 countries. Some 700 exhibitors were present...
MANAGUA, April 7 (Xinhua) -- Member countries of the Venezuela-led Bolivarian Alliance for the Americas (ALBA) has taken a joint step to stamp out hunger and poverty, a top Nicaraguan official said Monday. ALBA and Petrocaribe, a regional mechanism t...
MOSCOW, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Russia and the United States had halted a bilateral nuclear safety project, which Washington had been financing for decades, local media reported Tuesday. All joint works in the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, also k...
MOSCOW, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Russia's secret service confirmed Tuesday that Doku Umarov, listed as a terrorist by both Russia and the United States, had been killed in an anti-terror operation. In the first quarter of 2014, the activity of Umarov, the...
VANCOUVER, April 8 (Xinhua) -- A survey report released Tuesday ranked Toronto as the world's most resilient city. Vancouver was the second most resilient city, to be followed by Calgary, also a Canadian city, Chicago and Pittsburgh, according to the...
BOGOTA, April 8 (Xinhua) -- Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos Tuesday condemned the killing of three policemen in an ambush blamed on members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) insurgent group. The officers were reportedly kill...
Message for World Autism Awareness Day 世界提高自闭症意识日致辞 2 April 2014 2014年4月2日 This years World Autism Awareness Day is a chance to celebrate the creative minds of people with Autism Spectrum Disorders, and to renew our pled...
PERTH, Australia/KUALA LUMPUR, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese and Australian ships have picked up acoustic signals while searching for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean. The underwater detection represents an important...
This week large parts of England and Wales have fallen under the spell of a hazy sky. The Department of Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) said pollution in the southeast of England, including London, reached nine on a scale of 10. Jill Mea...
Frequent smog has made face masks and air purifiers commonplace in many households here in China. We have air purifier at home because sometimes the air quality is too bad. We didn't have face masks at home in the past, but now we have a lot. It has...
