Despite China's rapid economic growth, a large number of China's rural residents are still sealed in poverty.
India has agreed to expeditiously identify a second site, in addition to Kudankulam in southern state of Tamil Nadu, to set up Russian-designed nuclear power units, local TV channels reported Thursday.
China will continue improving people's livelihood with necessary and timely support, especially for those with low incomes, according to the Central Economic Work Conference concluded on Thursday.
China's top political advisor Yu Zhengsheng has met with an author from the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region who recently published a book introducing people from the northwestern region.
According to the memorial hall, the survivors and the victims' relatives chose to disclose the news on the Human Rights Day to draw worldwide attention and to urge the Japanese government to reflect on its aggression and the harm it did to the Chinese people.
The hegemony it has exercised, the inquisition by torture it has practised, and the profound racial inequalities all point to the sheer hypocrisy of the United States as a defender of human rights.
Dozens of people were feared killed as explosion rocked the local Kantin Kwari Market in northwestern Nigeria's state of Kano on Wednesday, witnesses told Xinhua.
Taiwan's new chief administrator Mao Chi-kuo and other officials from the administrative authority were sworn in on Monday, pledging to deepen rapport with the public.
In the battle against air pollution in China's cities, one Beijing social enterprise is bringing affordable clean air to the masses by teaching people how to make their own air purifiers.
The Australian Senate has passed sweeping changes to the country's immigration laws, including the re-introduction of the Temporary Protection Visas (TPVs), the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) reported Friday.
The over-representation of Indigenous Australians in prisons around the country is a " catastrophe," said Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda in a report released on Friday.
Judging by the numbers, China's leaders were for real when they started the frugality campaign on Dec.4, 2012. As of September, more than 80,000 officials had been punished for breaking the rules.
The Constitution Day on Dec. 4 will boost Chinese people's awareness of the law and further boost the country's drive to establish the rule of law, says a People's Daily editorial to be published on Thursday.
Enthusiastic amateurs are using modern tools, such as social networks and digital publishing, to help save endangered cultural sites and forgotten art forms, as Peng Yining report.
Two Ebola vaccines undergoing clinical trials have shown promising results and would be deployed in January 2015 to West African countries affected by the epidemic, a scientist from Oxford University said Monday.
Prince Harry revealed his secret of feeling nervous when speaking in public on the World AIDS Day Monday to reduce stigma of HIV.
For a year or so, drinking a cup of tea at leisure has gradually become a new fashion in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and a number of teahouses sprang up around the capital city of Pyongyang.
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