Government officials and scholars attended a Chinese cultural forum in Hong Kong, going through topics concerning the rise of Chinese culture across the world, and how can the spirits therein applied to our daily lives.
The Nelson Mandela Center of Memory kicked off the Mandela's 95th birthday celebrating activities with a visit to the Bertrams Junior School here on Sunday.
The world is bracing for a population explosion but few have any solutions. The global population, currently 7.2 billion, barreling past 8.1 billion by 2025, to 9.6 billion people by the year 2050, and then almost 11 billion by 2100.
Chinese scientists announced Monday that China has once again built the world's fastest supercomputer, capable of performing 33.86 quadrillion operations per second, surpassing the U.S. Titan supercomputer.
As the weekend Xi-Obama talks concluded with a positive tone, experts said this summit cast positive influence not just on the advancement of bilateral ties but also the development of the whole world.
A joint United Nations agency report on Monday warned that without a major funding push, some 2.4 billion people -- one-third of the world's population -- will remain without access to improved sanitation in 2015.
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Saturday called for global efforts to end extreme poverty by 2030 and enhance prosperity sharing in different countries.
Qingming, a traditional Chinese Festival to pay respect to the deceased, falls on April 4th this year. Local residents in Dujiang Dam, Sichuan, held a ceremony to offer sacrifices to "water god" to pray for favorable weather in the coming year. Duilt in 256 B.C. by local governor Li Bing during the Warring States (475-221 B.C.), Dujiang Dam is the world's oldest irrigation project.
The fifth BRICS summit is underway in South Africa's coastal city of Durban - the first time for the meeting to be held on African soil.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry hailed the proposed transatlantic free trade talks Thursday, pledging to strengthen economic ties with the European Union (EU).
The whole world economy is very mixed still with a lot of storm, but Chinese economy has pretty sunny outlook comparing with other countries.
As much as 50 percent of all food produced around the world ends up as waste, a new report said on Thursday.
Four people have been detained in southwest China's Chongqing municipality for spreading doomsday rumors.
2012 global economy has faced many headwinds, with the slow EU development to resolve the debt issue in year beginning, and U.S. fiscal cliff at the year end. The market movement has also been quite volatile.
The world's highest national park at altitude opened on Friday in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region.
The Beijing Music Festival heads to the city's hip Sanlitun district to make it more accessible to the masses. Chen Jie reports.
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