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Chinese rescue team arrives in quake-hit Türkiye
US four-star general’s war speculation sparks criticism
This undated file photo shows the Chinese National Flag and the US National Flag. (PHOTO /XINHUA) WASHINGTON – Recent comments by a four-star general of the US Air Force that the United States and China will fight a war in 2025 over Taiwan have been criticized as groundless speculation. Mike Minihan, commander of the Air […]
Schools to fully resume after China’s COVID response change
Students read books in a classroom at Jinan Experimental Junior Middle School in East China's Shandong province on Feb 7, 2023. (PHOTO / IC) Schools will fully resume in-person classroom teaching and are making full preparations for the new semester as around 300 million students and teachers are about to return to school after the […]
China’s Red Cross to aid Türkiye, Syria after earthquakes
Rescuers search for survivors under the rubble following an earthquake in Diyarbakir, Turkiye, Feb 6, 2023. (PHOTO / AGENCIES) The Red Cross Society of China said that it will send the Turkish Red Crescent and the Syrian Red Crescent cash to help with disaster relief and rescue operations after strong earthquakes shook Turkiye and Syria […]
16 killed, 66 injured in expressway crashes
Firefighters attend to burning trucks and vehicles on an expressway in Changsha, Hunan province, on Saturday. Five major collisions in a 10-minute period left 16 people dead and injured dozens of others, traffic police said. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Sixteen people were killed and 66 injured in a series of accidents on an expressway in Hunan […]
Rescue underway after road accident in China’s Changsha
A team from the Ministry of Emergency Management has rushed to Changsha, capital of Hunan province, to guide rescue operations after a deadly traffic accident, according to a media release from the ministry on Sunday. The accident involved multiple vehicles and has resulted in heavy casualties, China's emergency ministry said without disclosing specific numbers The […]
China strongly opposes US move to shoot down unmanned airship
BEIJING – China expressed strong dissatisfaction and opposition towards the US use of force to attack China's civilian unmanned airship, Chinese Foreign Ministry said Sunday in a statement. The Chinese side has, after verification, repeatedly informed the US side of the civilian nature of the airship and conveyed that its entry into the United States […]
Giant panda Le Le dies at Memphis Zoo
Seeing Indonesia’s sports tourism development through Lake Toba F1 Powerboat Championship
Lake Toba, N. Sumatra, Indonesia, Feb 3, 2023 – (ACN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – In developing its sports tourism potential, Indonesia holds many championships or sports events, and one of the closest is the F1 Powerboat (F1H2O) World Championship in Lake Toba, North Sumatra, on February 24-26. Lake Toba, one of the most spacious lakes […]
Major hospitals see decline in COVID-19 patients after break
Predicted spike in infections post-Spring Festival not seen at medical institutions Senior doctor Feng Ke (right), talks to a patient's relative at the emergency department of the Central Hospital of Ningxia Medical University in Yinchuan, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, on Tuesday. (PHOTO PROVIDED TO CHINA DAILY) It is common for Chinese people to hope for […]
Advance approval a must for COVID experiments
A researcher works at a lab in a health industrial park in Yongchuan district of Chongqing, on Dec 16, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) The Beijing Municipal Health Commission said on Wednesday that all experiments related to COVID-19 must be approved in advance by local or national health authorities, emphasizing that unauthorized tests and research are […]
Sustainable growth key in UN teamwork
Beijing reiterates its support for unity, multilateralism at high-level meeting Wang Yi (right), a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and director of the Office of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the CPC Central Committee, meets with President of the 77th Session of the UN General Assembly Csaba […]
Official: China ready to promote economic ties with Australia
BEIJING – China is ready to work with Australia to expand cooperation while managing differences in line with important consensus between the leaders of the two countries, in order to push forward bilateral economic and trade cooperation, a Ministry of Commerce official said on Thursday. Yang Tao told a press conference that the state leaders' […]
China: Cold War mentality unpopular in Asia-Pacific
Two men arrive at the entrance of the building housing the NATO headquarters in Brussels on May 7, 2018. (JOHN THYS / AFP) BEIJING – A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Thursday said that the intention behind NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg's recent China-related remarks is "alarming," adding that the Asia-Pacific region does not welcome a […]
Herd immunity protecting most people from COVID-19
Mass vaccination makes current situation safe, but uncertainty remains, expert says People visit Sanfangqixiang (Three Lanes and Seven Alleys), a historic neighborhood in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian province, Jan 22, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Most people in China are safe from the spread of COVID-19 due to widespread vaccinations and newly gained natural immunity, but […]
CH.1.1 strain not expected to spread widely, experts say
People walk on a street in Shanghai, Dec 8, 2022. (PHOTO / IC) China had detected 24 imported cases of the new Omicron variant CH.1.1 and its offshoots as of Monday. However, the strain is not expected to spark widespread transmission in the short term, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. […]
Xi highlights new pattern of development
Boosting domestic demand, sci-tech self-reliance stressed at study session An employee observes a robotic arm working at a smart production facility in Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, in July. (SU QIAOJIANG / FOR CHINA DAILY) Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, has stressed the need to accelerate the establishment of a […]
China plays crucial role in global fight against COVID-19
Staff members unload vaccines donated by China at a Philippine Air Force base in Manila, the Philippines on Feb 28, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) COVID: No conditions attached when China helps others For Li Jun, vice-president of the Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Chinese Medicine, fighting COVID-19 was a war on two fronts. In April 2020, after […]
Beijing survey to help direct control measures
Tourists visit Great Tang All Day Mall in Xi'an, capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi province, Dec 30, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Beijing has achieved temporary immunity from COVID-19 among its population and will soon carry out a survey to measure COVID-19 antibody levels to help assess the epidemic situation in the capital and inform the […]