President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, swears in Dr. Riek Machar as the first Vice President of South Sudan, in Juba, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020./AP The East African bloc and the UN refug
04:44 Ambassador Chen Xu is one of China's most senior diplomats.We sit down for our interview at Beijing's Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva on a sunny Saturday aftern
02:02 The Venice Carnival has been cut short and football matches postponed as Italian officials race to contain Europe's worst outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus.While the UK announ
We are now onto the fifth short story of nine in Ted Chiang’s collection Exhalations. This one is a very short one at only a couple of pages, but despite its brief length, it explores some of the most
As streaming services like HBO Max, Netflix and Disney+ plus vie for subscription dollars and YouTube, Xumo, Kanopy, Tubi TV, Vudu and Pluto TV try to take more ad revenue from traditional television,
The No. 3jersey of Dwayne Wade in the Miami Heat is raised in the rafters of the American Airlines Arena in Miami, Flordia, February 22, 2020. /VCG During the halftime break of the game betwee
Yangzom and her family in Lhasa, capital of southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region, decided to celebrate a quiet Tibetan New Year this year as local authorities cal
The worry that the global supply chain, especially of the auto industry, would be severely damaged by the sudden strike of the coronavirus, is being gradually mitigated as the world's second-large
01:50 The CEO of global chemical giant Dow says that he is impressed with China's perseverance and determination to manage the outbreak, adding that Dow will "assist this effort with a
Can a tofu factory produce masks? Even the owner of the factory would never have imagined such a thing before the novel coronavirus swept China. "When our factory resu
When boatloads of refugees from Africa and the Middle East head to Europe, everybody takes notice.The image that's presented by media outlets around the globe is that of the poor invading rich cou
The HSBC office building in London, UK. /Xinhua Editor's note: Matteo Giovannini is a finance professional at ICBC in Beijing and a member of the China Task Force at the Italian Ministry of E
At present, the Chinese people are united as one in their resolute fight against the COVID-19. Encouraging news is coming from the front line and data shows that the tu
Alex Ovechkin (C) of the Washington Capitals celebrates the 700th goal scored in his career in the game against the New Jersey Devils at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, February 22,
Editor's note: Seymur Mammadov is director of the international expert club EurAsiaAz and editor-in-chief of Azerbaijan's news agency Vzglyad.az. The article reflects the author's opinions, and no
China is an important market and the British auto industry foresees big cooperation potential with China in the post-Brexit era, communications chief of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Trader
Victoria's Secret, the world-famous American lingerie brand, has been struggling of late.The underwear firm's parent company L Brands (LB) sold a controlling stake of the lingerie-maker to pri