The flood disaster in Myanmar has brought the death toll to 89 and affected hundreds of thousands of people across the country, prompting a state of emergency and calls for urgent relief efforts. A Chinese non-governmental team, Blue Sky Rescue Team,...
When addressing the Australia-China Business Week in Sydney this week, Mr. Turnbull said at the very beginning of his speech that it is important not to forget that in Australia's battle for survival against Japan their longest ally was China. On Feb...
Two months after Beijing introduced the new smoking ban local authorities describe the control efforts as satisfactory. However, they are confronted with a shortage of personnel- there are more than 4 million smokers in the city, but only around 1,00...
In February 1944, Lt. Donald W. Kerr of the U.S. Air Force had his airplane shot down by Japanese troops during an Allies' operation to bombard the Kai Tak airport. The airport in Hong Kong had been occupied by Japanese troops since 1941. Lt. Kerr ma...
中国拟建造高效交通运输体系 For CRI, I'm Wang Mengzhen China's top economic planner, the National Development and Reform Commission, has announced that the country's infrastructure operation network has been basically completed. Meanwhile...
The 68-article draft law looks at the safety, operation, and information of Internet products, services, and network data. It also stresses the protection of personal information from theft, leakage, or illegal use. This follows a string of incidents...
The announcement that the debris found on the Indian Ocean island of Reunion, east of Madagascar, is from flight MH370 is the first physical evidence discovered from the missing flight. French official Serge Mackowiak, who is assisting in the investi...
Among the highlights of the reforms is a ban on the price mark-up of drugs. Fu Wei with the National Health and Family Planning Commission says it's key to establishing a new system that can make hospitals more accountable to the people they're tryin...
The pilot program aims to reform the senior-care sector and boost the role of family and community care. The plan will see some seniors' care centers remain state owned, but run by non-governmental organizations or individuals, while others will be c...
The China Culture Season in the UK has been opened by a number of performances, among which is a Chinese version of Shakespeare's play Richard III, the signature production of the National Theatre of China. Catherine Mallyon is the Executive Director...
Chinese embassy officials in Myanmar are hitting more flood-stricken areas to deliver relief materials worth some 300,000 US dollars. Responding to a call from the embassy, around one-hundred Chinese companies operating in Myanmar have also begun org...
The revised laws will include much stronger civil, administrative and criminal penalties for both offenders and their supervisors. Those who violate the new food safety laws will face fines of up to 30 times the value of their products. The current p...
As part of the sessions, the two sides have been discussing how to better share information and law enforcement resources. This is the second such meeting between the Chinese and US governments. Professor Wang Baofu with China's National Defense Univ...
Wang Yi met with John Kerry during a meeting at an ASEAN regional security forum. Before the meeting took place, John Kerry said the agenda included a number of topics. We will discuss a lot of issues before the ASEAN regional forum. We will talk abo...
South Korean authorities have been putting together promotional campaigns to try to lure tourists back after going through an outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS, earlier this year. Park Won-soon, the Mayor of Seoul, is now in China...