The People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy has confirmed that the Liaoning aircraft carrier passed through the Taiwan Straits on Thursday before dawn.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is leaving for a six-day tour to the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam and Australia on Thursday.
A total of 1.037 million registered Chinese-character domain names are in use, the China Internet Network Information Center said Thursday.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday that Turkish air strikes in northern Syria had killed 88 civilians since early on Thursday, including 24 children.
Vehicles were still streaming out of eastern Aleppo on Thursday morning under U.N. monitoring after an evacuation overnight, a United Nations official in Syria told Reuters on Thursday.
The yuan was trading slightly stronger on Friday morning than on Thursday, although it remains near record lows as the People’s Bank of China continues to bring down the reference rate.
Quake recovery efforts could be hampered by further bad weather with more heavy rain and southerly gales forecast for the Kaikoura coast and Wellington.
Visitors from developing countries are gaining interest in weapons meant to fight terrorism at the six-day China International Aviation and Aerospace Exhibition, or Airshow China 2016, in Zhuhai, South China's Guangdong Province.
Two emblematic Athens hotels which have put their mark on the city's tourism industry for more than half a century, the Athens Hilton and Astir Palace, changed ownership on Thursday.
Offices, businesses and schools in the southern city of Shenzhen will close as Typhoon Haima is expected to hit Friday afternoon, the local flood control authorities said.
The remains of Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who passed away Thursday in Siriraj Hospital, were moved from the hospital to the Grand Palace on Friday with grieving Thais seeing him off.
Hurricane Matthew left devastation in its wake, killing at least 264 people in Haiti, as it moved toward the Bahamas and the United States.
China's national observatory said Thursday that a cold front sweeping north China will bring lower temperatures and rain from Thursday to Saturday.
Hua Chunying made the remarks on the comments of U.S. State Department deputy spokesperson Mark Toner concerning a case that a Chinese lawyer got seven years in prison for state subversion on Thursday.
Northeast China's Liaoning Province is experiencing its strongest rainfall of the year.
Vietnamese National Assembly (NA) deputies on Thursday afternoon cast their votes to elect Chairperson of the 14th NA.
The Islamic State-related Amaq news agency, citing a source, said Saturday an IS "soldier" executed the attack in Nice, France, on Thursday in response to the group's call to target the anti-IS alliance.