-- The 66-article draft law on safeguarding national security in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) has six chapters.-- The draft requires the HKSAR to
A staff worker checks the body temperature of a customer outside an Apple store on Fifth Avenue of New York City, the United States, June 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Wang Ying)-
Video: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo tells his daily press briefing on June 18, 2020 that "Phase has rules" and "Phase II business in NYC should plan on reopening on Monday." (Xinhua) As of Thursday,
-- The latest model by IHME predicts that total deaths caused by COVID-19 in the U.S. could reach anywhere from 171,000 to 270,000 by Oct. 1, with a possible figure in between at about 201,129;-- Back
Video: U.S. President Donald Trump signs an executive order on policing on June 16, 2020, at the White House, Washington, D.C., the United States, amid calls for actio
Craftsman Wu Yingshan makes a leaf cup at his studio in Ji'an County, east China's Jiangxi Province, June 9, 2020. (Xinhua/Zhang Haobo)How to integrate a leaf into the
Beijing has strengthened community-level disease prevention and control in response to the resurgence of domestically transmitted COVID-19 cases. Nearly 100,000 commun
New York City is enhancing #COVID19 testing capacity in its first phase of reopening. Follow Xinhua's Wei Ying to a testing center to check out how tests are done. #FightVirus The governor Andrew Cuo
Video: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that the digital divide is now "a matter of life and death" for people who are unable to access essential healthcare information.(Xinhua/Xie E)"Digita
-- The U.S. government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic "self-interested, short-sighted, inefficient, and irresponsible." -- Long-existing and now deteriorating problems are exposed in the United
The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) on Wednesday kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged at the record-low level of near zero, and projected interest rates to remain at
As the COVID-19 epidemic has waned in China, few new cases and more spending-stimulating policies have encouraged more consumers to visit shops and restaurants. Chines
Photo taken on March 20, 2020 shows the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, California, the United States.(Photo by Qian Weizhong/Xinhua) "We've seen many times in the past how people want and need
A view of Maliao village, Leishan county, Guizhou province. [Photo/Xinhua] The making of a silver hairpin involves melting, forging, carving and brushing, and takes at least three hours. But th
Video: After nearly three months of lockdown, New York City enters the first phase of reopening on June 8, 2020, 100 days since the city reported its first COVID-19 case.(Xinhua/Zhang Mocheng, Wei Yin
01:47 Oceans cover 71 percent of our planet and are home to more than half of the species living on Earth. Over three billion people depend on marine and coastal biodiversity for their
Rainbow flags and posters with the colorful motif have been on display outside some embassies in central Beijing's leafy Chaoyang and Dongcheng districts in recent week