The Chinese economy reported better-than-expected data for the first quarter as gross domestic product expanded 7 percent year on year, official data revealed on Wednesday.
Scores of historical photos showing the life of the earliest Chinese American immigrants who worked as coolies, or laborers, and their descendants were put on display at an art center in Houston's Chinatown on Saturday night.
A female pilot trainee of deep-sea manned submersible operated Jiaolong on Thursday for the first time in the southwestern Indian Ocean.
The Business Optimism Index (BOI) in Singapore is projected to drop to a low level in the first quarter of 2015 amid global political headwinds and softer regional demand in external-oriented sectors, the Singapore Commercial Credit Bureau (SCCB) said on Monday.
Oxford University doctors and scientists are starting the first safety trial of an experimental preventative Ebola vaccine, aiming to have vaccinated all 72 healthy adult volunteers by the end of January.
Brazil's central bank has released its first batch of commemorative coins for the Rio 2016 Olympics, Games organizers said Friday.
French President Francois Hollande on Tuesday decided to suspend the delivery of the first of two Mistral helicopter carriers to Russia "until further notice," because of the continued crisis in Kiev which could put the region' s security at risk.
"Ball Lightning", one of the bestselling recent Chinese science fiction novels, is to be released in English.
A runoff is expected to take place between Brazil's incumbent President Dilma Rousseff and her rival Aecio Neves on Oct. 26.
Chinese budget airliner China United Airlines (CUA) will remove all first-class seats by the end of the month, the company announced Monday.
The Aluminum Corporation of China Ltd. (Chalco), the country's largest smelter of the industrial metal, posted a first-half net loss of 4.123 billion yuan (669 million U.S. dollars), a staggering increase of 3.53 billion yuan from a year earlier.
Xinhua published a commentary on Thursday on China's economic performance in the first seven months under the leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC).
China's economy grew 7.4 percent year on year in the first half of 2014, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Wednesday.
Although Chinese leaders have stressed the flexibility of the GDP growth target, an inspection group dispatched by the State Council found that attaining "reasonable" growth remains a struggle.
New Zealand scientists are seeking a world first in studying some of the earth's deepest ocean waters this month with cutting-edge technology that could improve understanding of global climate change.
A chief of China's central bank has urged the country's commercial banks to be quicker in approving and issuing loans to "eligible" home buyers, mainly first-time home buyers.
Top United Nations officials have cautioned that Syria's newly announced presidential elections have a risk of undermining efforts to achieve a political solution to the country's three-year-old conflict, a UN spokesman said here on Monday.
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