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Wuhan ICU doctor reflects on COVID-19 frontline experience

02:23 The last three COVID-19 patients in the ICU at Wuhan Pulmonary Hospital have all tested negative for the virus following nucleic acid tests. Medics transferred them to disinfecte

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TCM effective in treating COVID-19 patients in Wuhan: official

Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has played an effective role in treating COVID-19 patients in Wuhan, the central China city hit hard by the epidemic, a medical expe

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Natural resources consumption gap widens

Editor's note: Lyu Haobo is a specialist in environmental policy in Tsinghua University and the author of "Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) and air pollution issue in China." The article reflect

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Commentary: "Westward relocation spirit" inspires China to meet development goals

President Xi Jinping's inspection trip to Xi'an Jiaotong University has reignited the "westward relocation spirit," which will fuel the nation's drive to eliminate poverty and complete building

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Japan reports 14 more coronavirus cases on Italian cruise ship

An aerial view shows Italian cruise ship Costa Atlantica, which had confirmed 33 coronavirus cases, in Nagasaki, southern Japan, April 21, 2020. /Reuters Fourteen more coronavirus infections h

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WHO sees different trends of COVID-19 in different regions

World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday that different trends of COVID-19 exist in different regions, and even wi

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Italy to start easing lockdown from May 4

Italy will announce before the end of this week its plans for gradual reopening starting from May 4 from a lockdown imposed to fight the coronavirus emergency, Prime Mi

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Germany reports 1,785 new COVID-19 cases

Germany reported 1,785 new infections of COVID-19, with total cases reaching 143,457, according to data from disease control agency Robert Koch Institute Tuesday. A total of 4,598 deaths have been

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Denunciation in Damascus: Foul play by the Trump administration

Editor's note: Hamzah Rifaat Hussain is a former visiting fellow at the Stimson Center in Washington, and currently serves as assistant researcher at the Islamabad Policy Research Institute (IPRI)

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Sri Lanka relaxes curfew in several districts to kick start economic activities

Sri Lankan authorities on Monday relaxed an ongoing curfew in several districts of the country while capital Colombo and three other districts which were declared as "

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How Hong Kong controlled the coronavirus without a lockdown

Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) efforts to manage the novel coronavirus pandemic without enforcing any lockdown could act as a model for countries struggling to flatten the epidemi

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Nine Great Wall beacon towers discovered in China's Inner Mongolia

Remains of nine beacon towers of the Great Wall have been discovered in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to the cultural relics bureau of t

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Commentary: Don't point the finger, work with China instead to fight virus

The city of Wuhan on Friday revised its numbers of total confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths, bringing them up to 50,333 and 3,869, respectively, as of the end of Apri

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Expert calls for strengthened TCM research in response to epidemic

A leading traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) expert Friday called for stepping up clinical research into integrated TCM as an essential part of China's epidemic respon

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TCM use reduces COVID-19 death risk: expert

The use of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) helped reduce the death rate of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) epidemic in Wuhan, the once hardest virus-hit ci

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Magnitude 5.9 earthquake hits Myanmar: USGS

An earthquake of magnitude 5.9 on Thursday struck near Myanmar's northwestern town of Falam, close to the country's western border with India, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) said.The quake struck

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Beijing approves TCM drugs for COVID-19

01:41 China has added three patented items of traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) to the treatments for COVID-19. The drugs, specifically Jinhua Qinggan granules, Lianhua Qingwen capsu