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....
Hong Kong's Secretary of Commerce and Economic Development, Gregory So, says total arrivals climbed 1.5 percent year-on-year. The number of mainland tourists increased by just 2.3-percent this year to around 1.1 million arrivals over the 7-day holida...
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...
Jan Andersson from the Nobel Prize Committee in Physiology or Medicine explained why Tu Youyou won the Nobel Prize. Youyou Tu got half of this year's prize for her discovery of Artemisinin, and she did that from an herb, so she was the one who identi...
The 50-meter-long Zhiyuan Warship, located 10 nautical miles southwest of Dandong Port, was sunken by the Japanese navy during a Sino-Japanese War about 12 decades ago. The State Administration of Cultural Heritage launched investigation and salvage...
It is 6 in the morning. The sun is rising over a village Mosque in Hutubi, a county 80 kilometers away from Xinjiang's capital city Urumqi. 48-year-old imam Yang Jie has just finished his 1-hour early morning exercise. Putting down the fitness equipm...
The 94-minute film, Mr. Deng Goes to Washington, is the first big-screen production chronicling Deng's nine-day visit, which occurred about one month after China officially established diplomatic relations with the United States. Fu Hongxing, the dir...
Taking time to mark National Day in Hong Kong, Chief Executive CY Leung is calling on people in the city to take advantage of the one country, two-systems policy to help Hong Kong grow. CRI's Hong Kong correspondent Li Jing has more. As part of his a...
Stphane Dujarric, spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, says the UN is extremely pleased with China's contribution to international peacekeeping. We were very pleased to hear of the contributions that China has announced, notably to peac...
The Seventieth session of the United Nations General Assembly kicks off its annual high-level debate early this morning at the UN headquarters in New York. Member States of the UN have taken the opportunity to address to the world their concerns on c...
New Zealand Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has given a speech, outlining New Zealand's perspectives and security priorities. He thus speaks highly of China's contribution to the UN peacekeeping mission. In peacekeeping, New Zealand is very grateful...
In his speech at the UN sustainable development summit, the president elaborated on China's stance on global development. He called for equitable, open and all-round development. We know the centerpiece of this year's development summit is the adopti...
Four Chinese nationals have been confirmed dead in the stampede near Mecca last Thursday. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei announced on Monday. The Chinese delegation on the pilgrimage has confirmed that around 14,500 of its members have completed...
Chinese Vice Premier Ma Kai says Monday's talk aims to enhance bilateral trade and investment. Under the theme of promoting bilateral trade and investment from a strategic height, this round of dialogue has had in-depth and candid discussions on a wi...
The Shau Kei Wan Typhoon Shelter in Hong Kong has been cordoned off after a fire destroyed at least 10 boats, and injured five people on Sunday afternoon. The cause to the fire is still under investigation. The blaze was finally extinguished shortly...
