The Spring Festival, the beginning of a new Chinese Lunar Year and a day when all Chinese people across the world unite with their loved ones, is being celebrated by more and more people from other cultures.
The Australian federal government has defended its decision to send four men suspected of being involved in a people smuggling venture back to Sri Lanka.
For farmers and herders around Changtang nature reserve in Tibet Autonomous Region in southwest China, there are two sides to the wildlife coin.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders on Tuesday extended Lunar New Year greetings to Chinese people at home and abroad.
Chinese President Xi Jinping wants to end poverty in old revolutionary base areas and improve local people's standard of living.
Maltese people have enjoyed another Chinese Acrobatics Gala Show on Tuesday evening at the St Benedict Primary School in Safi, one of the smallest villages in Malta located in the southeast of the islands.
The Chinese authorities may think they have done a sufficient job in last year's information transparency, but they have yet to convince the public.
Visitors to Chen Zongqiang's new home are impressed by the sausages and bacon that are hung in his spacious, villalike, two-story house.
China's Internet watchdog will target dating websites and other online match-making sites to combat fraud.
An explosion in a chemical plant in Barcelona on Thursday has caused a toxic orange cloud that forced people to stay indoors for several hours.
Urbanization, President Xi Jinping declared on Tuesday, must not mean the homogenization of urban and rural areas and people.
The Italian cabinet on Wednesday approved new anti-terrorism measures providing prison terms up to 10 years for those who join Islamic extremist groups to fight in combat zones.
Maltese people have enjoyed another Chinese Acrobatics Gala Show on Tuesday evening at the St Benedict Primary School in Safi, one of the smallest villages in Malta located in the southeast of the islands.
The national environmental watchdog will put strict controls on setting off fireworks during the upcoming Spring Festival holiday, which falls on Feb 18, by expanding forbidden areas and times and conducting more supervision.
More than ten people were believed to remain trapped in a wholesale market that had been ravaged by fire in south China's Guangdong Province on Thursday afternoon, witnesses said.
The Syrian air force carried out as many as 40 airstrikes against the rebels' positions in the eastern countryside of the capital Damascus on Thursday, reportedly killing 35 people, according to a monitoring group.
The inclusive development in China's Tibet Autonomous Region is the prime keynote of the human rights progress in the remote region, says a Chinese scholar.
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