In China's northeast province of Jilin, China Changchun Vasaloppet International Skiing Festival is more than a cross-country skiing competition.
Taiwan leader Ma Ying-jeou on Thursday urged efforts to strengthen cross-strait peace, saying "achievements made over the past six years stand as proof that seeking peace in this way is the right way to go."
Natural disasters bring vulnerabilities of developing countries into sharper focus. In Asia 2014 has been a whirlwind of typhoons, droughts, floods and the inevitable human devastation they create, leaving behind wrecked economies and lives.
After more than a decade of fast growth, casino revenue in global gambling hub Macao fell for the sixth straight month, with October posting the worst drop at 23.2 percent.
China's consumer prices grew by their slowest pace in five years in November, which may result in more easing measures by the policymakers, official data showed on Wednesday.
China will soon surpass other countries in the combined length of its subway systems, which is expected to reach 8,500 kilometers by 2020, Minister of Transport Yang Chuantang said on Thursday in Beijing.
Year-end used to be a busy time for Wang, the owner of a liquor and cigarette store in downtown Beijing, but sales have dropped sharply over the past two years.
Enthusiastic amateurs are using modern tools, such as social networks and digital publishing, to help save endangered cultural sites and forgotten art forms, as Peng Yining report.
China plans to invest 20 million yuan (3.26 million U.S. dollars) annually to support college students to contribute to the development of the next generation of the China Education and Research Network (CERNET).
Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has used her position as chair of a United Nations Security Council meeting to warn against the growing threat of young, violent, innovative and tech-savvy terrorists.
As Chinese President Xi Jinping said at the APEC CEO summit on Sunday, reform and innovation are of great significance to the economy of China as well as that of the world, the Chinese government is pushing forward a host of reforms, aiming to give more opportunities to those who embrace reform and innovation.
Lightning strikes will increase by about 12 percent in the United States for every one degree Celsius rise in global average air temperature, U.S. researchers who studied the effect of global warming on lightning activity said Thursday.
The captain of the South Korean sunken ferry was sentenced Tuesday to 36 years in prison for leaving more than 300 people dead by dismissing his duty of saving passengers.
Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, has called for a more just, tolerant and sustainable environment for the development of disabled people.
U.S. companies dedicated to oil and gas communications solutions are eager to expand into the fast-growing Chinese oil industry, a company executive told Xinhua Thursday at the sidelines of a conference program in Houston.
Our genetic makeup influences whether we are fat or thin by shaping which types of microbes thrive in our body, according to a British study published Thursday in the scientific journal Cell.
The World Food Programme ( WFP) said on Thursday the Ebola crisis response "needs to scale up, get better and perform faster," as the UN health agency reported that if judged safe, larger scale trials of an experimental vaccine could be taken to hard-hit West African countries as early as January 2015.
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