Shops, big and small, in Yangon's Chinatown have been putting on sale festive food and Year of the Ram decorative items a week ahead of the Chinese traditional new year, or spring festival.
In her dark, dank hovel in Ganzhou City, east China's Jiangxi Province, Zhong Nianfa (a pseudonym) uses a washing machine given by her son to store sweet potatoes and carrots rather than dirty laundry.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday held phone talks with his U.S. counterpart, Barack Obama, and accepted the latter's invitation to pay a state visit to the United States in September.
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French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are due in Kiev in a new attempt to resolve peacefully the Ukrainian crisis amid rising tensions in the region, Hollande told reporters on Thursday.
A deal between Greece and the European Union (EU) to re-negotiate Greek massive debt is possible, Italy's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said on Tuesday after holding talks with his Greek counterpart Alexis Tsipras in Rome.
Zhuzhou in central China's Hunan, Province, one of the nation's ten most polluted cities a decade ago, has been transformed.
The U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Thursday voted 18-4 to advance the new bipartisan Iran sanctions bill for a full-floor vote.
Zhuzhou in central China's Hunan, Province, one of the nation's ten most polluted cities a decade ago, has been transformed.
The Lamvong, Laos' social dance with variants found in neighboring Thailand and Cambodia and performed at all kinds of celebration, is hardly the most complex dance in the world.
The British government on Friday announced a series of new measures to help its businesses face the "cyber security challenge" and support its cyber security firms to tap into the U.S. market.
China's drug watchdog has licensed a new vaccine against the poliomyelitis, the Ministry of Science and Technology announced Thursday.
The Obama administration said on Thursday that it will loosen trade, finance, and travel embargo against Cuba.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi reaffirmed on Tuesday that he does not intend to establish a political party to avoid division or polarization, official MENA news agency reported.
Stepped up dialogue and cooperation between Latin America and China help establish a new world order, said Fernando Reyes Matta, Chile's former ambassador to China, on Thursday.
China's top disciplinary watchdog has hit the ground running in 2015, through measures that underscore its commitment to rooting out corruption.
When setting the growth target for 2015, China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region made it clear two mindsets should be avoided: one is the blind pursuit of expansion, the other allowing the economy go under on the pretext of a "new normal".
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