President Xi Jinping said China will make contributions toward peace and common development in Asia and the world at an international forum that opened on Sunday.
Though talks on a free trade agreement (FTA) with China have lagged for years, Australia wants to finish them to further boost bilateral economic ties, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Sunday.
In response to netizens' complaints about the possibility of being charged for using the mobile chat application WeChat, Liu Chiping, president of Chinese Internet giant Tencent, said Sunday that the company's popular software will remain free.
Though talks on a free trade agreement with China have lagged for years, Australia wants to finish them to further boost bilateral economic ties, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard said Sunday.
China is scheduled to let tourists visit the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea ahead of the forthcoming May Day holiday, said Tan Li, executive vice governor of the southern-most province of Hainan, on Saturday.
The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned "in the strongest terms" a suicide attack in Afghanistan's southwestern province of Farah, leaving more than 40 civilians killed and more than 100 others injured.
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and its partners in Cambodia are observing the milestone of 1,000 days to the end of 2015-- the target date for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), according to the agency's statement on Friday.
Wall Street closed higher in choppy trading on Thursday, rebounding from a biggest loss over one month in the prior trading day, as investors took the dip as a buying opportunity.
Once an aquafarm close to bankruptcy, Haiwan Farm has been revitalized a decade later thanks to its successful transition to an agritourism base for urban residents.
Internet is often said to make the world a global village. In the business world, it also helps companies reach customers in every corner of the earth. In a business contest named "Hong Kong SMe Heroes Challenges", four SMEs shared their strategies on how to use the Internet to expand their business.
A list of 45 Chinese steel enterprises that meet national iron and steel industrial standards was published Tuesday in the latest move to tackle excess production capacity that has plagued the sector.
The head of New Zealand legislators Wednesday welcomed the adoption of the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) by the United Nations General Assembly in New York.
Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday reaffirmed U.S. defense commitment to the Republic of Korea (ROK) and Japan, vowing no recognition of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) as a nuclear state.
Costa Rica has obtained authorization from China's top quality watchdog to export dairy product to China, the Ministry of Foreign Trade said Tuesday.
No bird flu virus was found in dead pig samples from a river that provides drinking water to residents in Shanghai where two died in the first human infections of a new avian influenza strain, authorities said Monday.
Rescue work at the site of a landslide that buried 83 miners in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region was suspended on Monday for fear of further slides. By Monday afternoon, rescuers had retrieved 36 bodies from the site of the massive landslide, which happened on Friday.
Eight Syrian Alawites were kidnapped Monday in the Lebanese border area of Wadi Khaled while en route to Syria