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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, saying "important progress for the current stage" was made after the two-day talks.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday announced sanctions on five Venezuelan officials, the latest move to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
Visiting Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai held in Chiang Mai Saturday strategic consultations and exchanged in-depth views on the South China Sea issue.
A delegation from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) arrived in Hanoi on Saturday, ahead of the planned second summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and DPRK leader Kim Jong Un, reported Yonhap.
U.S. President Donald Trump signed on Friday a national emergency to expand the U.S.-Mexico border wall and push for his signature campaign promise.
China and the United States held the sixth round of high-level economic and trade consultations in Beijing from Thursday to Friday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who were here for a new round of China-U.S. high-level economic and trade consultations, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, saying "important progress for the current stage" was made after the two-day talks.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on Friday announced sanctions on five Venezuelan officials, the latest move to pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
U.S. businesses paid an additional 2.7 billion U.S. dollars in tariffs in November 2018, according to data released Thursday.
China and the United States held the sixth round of high-level economic and trade consultations in Beijing from Thursday to Friday.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who were here for a new round of China-U.S. high-level economic and trade consultations, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, saying "important progress for the current stage" was made after the two-day talks.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday met with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, who were here for a new round of China-U.S. high-level economic and trade consultations, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing.
Hundreds of thousands of users on Sina Weibo, the Chinese Twitter-like social media platform, have flocked to and followed the two official Weibo accounts newly created on Thursday afternoon by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Rocket Force.
No victims were reported to be trapped under the rubble after a university building in the Russian city of St. Petersburg partially collapsed on Saturday, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said.
Peking University on Saturday confirmed academic misconduct by Zhai Tianlin, a Chinese celebrity recently doubted online over his academic achievements, according to a statement.
With four record seizures in a span of two months, it's the bloodiest World Pangolin Day in the history of the ant-eating mammal.
At least seven people were trapped under the rubble after a building collapsed in an industrial area in Fuzhou, southeast China's Fujian Province, on Saturday morning.
Five people were killed and five police officers were wounded in a shooting on Friday at a business in the U.S. state of Illinois, police said.
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Republic of Korea (ROK) will form joint teams to compete in four sports at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
Hundreds of thousands of users on Sina Weibo, the Chinese Twitter-like social media platform, have flocked to and followed the two official Weibo accounts newly created on Thursday afternoon by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Rocket Force.
A Husky was so excited to see its owner return home, and leaped off the roof of their two-storied house breaking the man's back on Saturday.
A video of ten-year-old boy's attempt to use money he received from gifts at Spring Festival to buy his mother a diamond ring, pulled the heart strings of people in the jewelry store and online.
Should men grow it or mow it? This is the latest question taking up space in some people's minds on China's social media as they debate which is sexier, a bearded or a clean shaven man.
China's heaviest man has not only lost 142 kilograms since undergoing stomach surgery six months ago, he now stands taller and takes a smaller shoe size.
Police in Central China's Hunan Province thought they were doing the right thing by taking in a young lost Husky but later dubbed the dog a saboteur after it chewed up files and made a mess of their office.
Hundreds of thousands of users on Sina Weibo, the Chinese Twitter-like social media platform, have flocked to and followed the two official Weibo accounts newly created on Thursday afternoon by the Chinese People's Liberation Army Rocket Force.
Beijing on Thursday criticized Washington for creating an excuse to increase military deployment in the Asia-Pacific region by playing up China's so-called militarization of the South China Sea.
A total of six Islamic State (IS) militants and a police officer were killed on Thursday in separate incidents in Iraq's north-central province of Salahudin, a provincial police source said.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) on Thursday wrapped up this year's first ministerial meeting over arms control, burden-sharing and European defence etc, as tensions resulting from Washington and Moscow's disputes over who violated a Cold War era arms-control treaty loom large.
There were only 78,000 Chinese Americans living on the United States mainland at the start of World War II.In March 1945, the Eighth Division successfully crossed the Rhine, encircled approximately 430,000 German soldiers, trapping them in an area that came to be known as the Ruhr Pocket.
The People's Liberation Army has published its first regulation governing military training, a move observers said will effectively boost the PLA's combat capabilities.
A new study has found that artificially sweetened beverages (ASBs) could lead to vascular diseases.
A Chinese researcher said China's satellite Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) or Micius would work at least two more years beyond its two-year working lifetime and carry out more international cooperation.
Leading scientists have expressed concern after polluted floodwaters hit an "extraordinarily large area" of the iconic Great Barrier Reef.
The United States space agency NASA said Friday that its lunar orbiter has observed the landing site of China's Chang'e-4 lunar probe for the third time, capturing a much sharper view.
China's research icebreaker Xuelong, with 126 crew members aboard on the 35th Antarctic research mission, on Thursday local time left the Zhongshan Station on its way back to China.
China is expected to generate 48.6 zettabytes (48.6 trillion gigabytes) of data in 2025, while the number for the US is forecast to be 30.6ZB, according to a study by the International Data Corporation (IDC) and data storage firm Seagate, a CNBC report said.
Over the past four years, Yan Wenyun has taught the Manchu language for free to more than 400 students in her public classes in Harbin, the capital of northeastern China's Heilongjiang province, or via the internet.
Huangshan Mountain, a tourist attraction with peculiar mountain peaks and distinctive pine trees in Anhui province, also offers delicately baked crispy pancake.
Gone are the days when Valentine's Day was all about pleasing the ladies: Gift-buying for men is on the rise.
Four love-themed films hit Chinese screens on Thursday, providing a romantic atmosphere for Valentine's Day.
"More and more mandarin ducks have been spotted in urban Beijing in recent years," said Shi Yang, a researcher with the Beijing Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center.
A fresco depicting Narcissus gazing at himself has emerged from an excavation at the Pompeii archaeological site near Naples in southern Italy, administrators announced Thursday.
Manchester United's former youth coach Eric Harrison, who mentored the famous "class of 92", has died at the age of 81, the English Premier League side announced on Thursday.
The Beijing municipal government has published a plan to transform a vacated industrial site in its western suburb into a city landmark by 2035, as part of the preparation for the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.
As Chinese communities at home and abroad rang in the Lunar New Year last week, the NBA seized the opportunity to engage its biggest overseas market.
Japan's Olympics minister was forced to apologize after suggesting that a Japanese star swimmer's leukemia diagnosis was "disappointing" and could dampen people's enthusiasm for the Tokyo 2020 Games.
Norwegian-born John Hou Sæter, a midfielder with Beijing Guo'an, received his temporary Chinese ID card Tuesday, becoming the first naturalized Chinese footballer.
The jersey of striker Wu Lei has been a top seller in Spain just two weeks after he signed with a local team Espanyol as only the second Chinese player to join the national league.
Born on August 14, 2018, Saihin is 90 centimeters in length and weighs 9.86 kilograms now.
Female giant panda cub Saihin, born at a Shirahama zoo in Japan's Wakayama Prefecture, celebrated her half-year-old birthday on Thursday, attracting a lot of tourists and panda lovers.
After an 8-year-old girl fell into a panda enclosure on Saturday, the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan Province issued a warning: Pandas are not as meek and docile as they appear.
We all know that giant pandas eat bamboos and live in mountainous regions of southwest China. In order to support their tough and fibrous bamboo diet, they have distinctive teeth, skull, and muscular features, as well as a special thumb that is developed to grasp and hold bamboo stems, leaves and shoots.
The "menu" for giant pandas 5,000 years ago might have been more diversified than today, when the black-and-white mammal lived in a wider range of environment besides bamboo forest, according to new research.
The two cubs, born in July of 2018, enjoyed a special New Year treat at the park ahead of the Spring Festival, which falls on Feb. 5 this year.
With four record seizures in a span of two months, it's the bloodiest World Pangolin Day in the history of the ant-eating mammal.
Valentine's Day is approaching and people in many parts of the world are getting ready to lighten their wallets for their loved ones.
