Chinese lawmakers held group discussions on Saturday to deliberate draft laws on urban construction and maintenance tax and deed tax, respectively. The draft laws were
A draft law on the National Flag Law and the National Emblem Law was submitted to the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) for deliberation o
The Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC), China's top legislature, will convene its 21st session from Saturday to Tuesday in Beijing, a spok
Despite the impacts of the COVID-19 epidemic, China is slated to complete the building of a moderately prosperous society in all respects, known as "Xiaokang" in Chinese, this year. With 2020 as the
Chinese Vice Premier Hu Chunhua has stressed support for flexible employment through multiple channels to safeguard an overall stable employment environment. Flexible
Unidentified gunmen shot dead six family members in a village in the Iraqi province of Salahudin, a provincial police source said Saturday. The incident took place lat
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, on Thursday inspected Changchun, the capital city of northeast China's Jilin Province.
Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, has earmarked 1 billion yuan (about 143.3 million U.S. dollars) to offer 100,000 internship positions for master's a
U.S. Navy teams began to be deployed in Texas to help combat the spread of COVID-19, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said on Sunday. Abbott announced that the U.S. Departme
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Thursday the extension of a No Sail Order for cruise ships through September 30, 2020. The order co
China's gross domestic product (GDP) expanded 3.2 percent year on year in the second quarter of 2020, data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) showed Thursday.
Rapid urban development has brought about better living conditions for residents in Hotan in Xinjiang, China. The renovations have also created opportunities for busin
An analysis of sewage water samples from last November in Florianopolis, the capital and second largest city of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil was found to contain traces of the novel coronav
Just ahead of the Fourth of July weekend, Walmart announced a partnership with Tribeca Enterprises (most notably the purveyors of the film festival of the same name) that’s set to convert 160 store lo
Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality has introduced a series of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into urban management, according to Thursday's Science an
China has arranged precautionary measures in the face of a new round of heavy rainfall in parts of the country, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management. Easte
Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region has launched an action plan to add 200,000 jobs in the construction sector in the next three years to increase local people's sources of income. A