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Vo Van Thuong sworn in as Vietnam's president

workwill newlyelected President Vo Van Thuong was sworn in on Thursday in the National Assembly Building in Hanoi.Thuong 52 a member of the Politburo of the Communist

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Why Aren't Chinese millennials getting married

Chen Yu, 35, a single woman from Guangdong province, is used to friends worrying about her delay in starting a family: "My parents and relatives are anxious and think I

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Why Aren't Chinese millennials getting married

Chen Yu, 35, a single woman from Guangdong province, is used to friends worrying about her delay in starting a family: "My parents and relatives are anxious and think I

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Violinist Xie Nan to perform with her students

Violinist Xie Nan will perform with her students in a concert featuring Four Seasons of Buenos Aires by Piazzolla and The Four Seasons, a set of four violin concertos composed by Vivaldi.The concert w

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Political Calendar: Zuma's trial, Zambia polls, Japan's WWII surrender

In the upcoming week, former South African President Jacob Zuma's long-running corruption trial will resume after being postponed, Zambia will hold presidential and National Assembly elections and Ja

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Performance highlights China's achievements in poverty alleviation

03:00 A group of Chinese singers, including Zhang Ye, Lyu Jihong and Li Danyang, performed the song "Ode to a Well-off Society," celebrating China's eradication of extr

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Film '1921' finds light among China's revolutionary heroes

A new mainstream film 1921 presents how the earliest founders of the Communist Party of China (CPC) tried to find new solution to save China from grave crisis in the turbulent revolutionary years.The

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Historical film '1921' leads China's box office, ticket sales top $9m

Chinese historical movie "1921" premieres at the opening ceremony of the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival, in Shanghai, east China, June 11, 2021. /CFPChinese

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Workrise, once known as RigUp, raises $300M at a $2.9B valuation

Workrise, which has built a workforce management platform for the skilled trades, announced today that it has raised $300 million in a Series E round led by UK-based Baillie Gifford that values the co

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New epic to retell CPC's first National Congress

Two years after the 2019 revolutionary film The Bugle from Gutian, actor Wang Renjun will again play Mao Zedong -- the founding father of People's Republic of China -- in the upcoming epic 1921.Se

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Ni Hao Chef! Li Qiang's classy elevation of traditional dim sum

06:33 Many of us are familiar with the steam trolleys that roam through dim sum restaurants, and I am no exception. Growing up in New York, it was our family ritual to

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China Post issues stamps commemorating literary classic

On April 23, China Post issued a set of commemorative stamps featuring fascinating stories from the literary classic Journey to the West, written by Wu Chengen in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644).The stam

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Xi congratulates Nguyen Xuan Phuc on election as Vietnam's president

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday congratulated Nguyen Xuan Phuc on his election as Vietnam's new president.The National Assembly (NA) of Vietnam on Monday elected

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Chinese stars cancel cooperation with brands over Xinjiang cotton

An H&M store in Beijing, October 4, 2020. /CFP A number of Chinese celebrities announced on Thursday they've cancelled their cooperation with brands such Adidas, Nike and UNIQLO, in response t

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Chinese fashion ambassadors break ties with H&M

Huang Xuan and Song Qian, two celebrities also ambassadors for the fashion retailer HM, announced on Wednesday that they would break ties with the brand immediately.The

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New York’s David Energy has raised $4.1 million to ‘build the Standard Oil of renewable energy’

“We intend to build the Standard Oil of renewable energy,” said James McGinniss, the co-founder and chief executive of David Energy, in a statement announcing the company’s new $19 million seed

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Military takes control of Myanmar; Suu Kyi reported detained

Myanmar military television said Monday that the military was taking control of the country for one year, while reports said many of the country’s senior politicians in