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Chinese company donates living materials to needy families in Pakistan

A leading company in China's seed industry said it donated living materials to 1,000 impoverished households in Pakistan. Yuan Longping High-tech Agriculture Co., Ltd,

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WEF new report highlights China's steady progress in clean energy

07:33 China is among only a handful of countries that have maintained steady progress on transitioning the country to clean energy, and the country is expected to see even further impr

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Economic Watch: China's new foreign investment rule to boost stocks, bonds

China announced plans Thursday to scrap quota restrictions on two major inbound investment schemes and further streamline the procedures for foreign institutional investors, a step that will boost

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Across China: Tourism wakes up "sleeping treasures" of impoverished villages

Quan Qinghai, 48, used to hate the stumbling rocks that hindered the way from his remote village in northwest China's Gansu Province to the outside world. Now with all

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Across China: Trashy straw turns wagyu fodder in northeast China

Straw, a former agricultural waste and big source of air pollution via open-air incineration in northeast China, has turned into a saleable export to Japan. Panshan Vi

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Getting to know China's new infrastructure projects

Consumption and investment – also known as two of the three horse carriages for growth in China – contributed 57.8 percent and 31.2 percent to China's GDP in 2019, respectively, according to China

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Top German court demands clarification of ECB bond-buying scheme

German Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann presents the annual 2018 report in Frankfurt, Germany, February 27, 2019. /Reuters The Bundesbank must stop buying government bonds under the European

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Kenya records high tea production, export in March

Kenya's high tea exports recorded came a little as a surprise as the world is battling the COVID-19 pandemic. /VCG Image Kenya's tea exports hit 44.28 million kilograms in March, according to

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HKSAR gov't slams foreign politicians for their serious intervention in HK affairs

The HKSAR government issued a statement in response to recent allegations made by certain foreign politicians relating to a Hong Kong police's arrest operation and othe

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Boeing raises $25 bln in blowout debt sale under COVID-19 crisis

A Boeing factory in Renton, Washington, U.S., April 29, 2020. /VCG Boeing raised 25 billion U.S. dollars in a bond offering on Thursday, a blowout result for the planemaker, which is shoring u

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Italy tests EU economic resolve

A woman wearing a mask stands at the bottom of the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy, March 5, 2020. /AP Editor's note: Freddie Reidy is a freelance writer based in London. He studied history and h

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Trump's war on public health

Editor's note: Anne O. Krueger is a former World Bank chief economist and former first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, senior research professor of International Econo

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Shares jump on coronavirus treatment hopes, oil soars

Wall Street, New York City, U.S. /VCG World stock markets rose sharply on Wednesday following encouraging news for an experimental COVID-19 treatment and some positive earnings reports, while

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Apple and CMU researchers demo a low friction learn-by-listening system for smarter home devices

A team of researchers from Apple and Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute have presented a system for embedded AIs to learn by listening to noises in their environm

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Chinese scientists develop heat stress-resistant plants

A research team of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) has made a breakthrough in increasing the photosynthesis efficiency and yield of plants under heat stress.Heat stress as a result of global wa

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Video shows thief stole van Gogh painting with sledgehammer

All it took was a few sturdy swings with a sledgehammer and a prized painting by Vincent van Gogh was gone.A Dutch crime-busting television show has aired security came

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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on Chinese agricultural product market limited: analysis

The Chinese market of agricultural products is relatively stable and has been affected minimally by the COVID-19 pandemic, except for several varieties with high depen