China's central bank announced 14-day reverse repurchase agreements (repos) on Wednesday, the first use of the loans since February this year, which analysts said would help ease money market rate fluctuations and relieve intensive reverse repo maturity pressure.
After decades of waiting and negotiations, a top Roman Catholic Church leader has publicly announced that the long-running Sino-Vatican dialogue has finally made some progress on critical issues that have held ties back.
Unlike Western media's narrative of Aung San Suu Kyi as Myanmar's democracy icon, Chinese people and observers are inclined to regard her as a pragmatic politician seeking cooperation with China for her people's good.
The ongoing Rio Olympic Games is probably the most relaxed games ever for China. Chinese audiences are decreasingly seeing medals as the paramount goal, and underperforming athletes are calmer when they end up with unsatisfying results. But in a country where athletes are funded by the government, whether athletes should simply enjoy participation remains controversial.
At the invitation of Premier Li Keqiang, Myanmar State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi will start a five-day visit to China on Wednesday, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday.
A Hong Kong-based NGO on Sunday called for a ban against any person or group that promotes "Hong Kong independence" or opposes the regional government's policies in schools, in a bid to prevent the spread of wrong ideas which would undermine the region.
China and Russia are discussing a proposal to prevent the further escalation of tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the Russian ambassador told media, which experts say indicates that the two countries are growing closer in the face of the deployment of a US missile defense system that has altered the fragile geopolitical balance in Northeast Asia.
The five-minutes video juxtaposes images of Syrian refugees, Chinese soldiers, and Taiwan leader Tsai Ing-Wen.
The local government of Lianyungang, East China's Jiangsu Province held an emergency meeting Sunday after thousands of residents staged a protest against a nuclear fuel recycling project being launched in the city, the latest in a series of development projects in China to come into conflict with rising environmental concern.
The economic slowdown in Russia, along with its weakening currency, the ruble, has put a lot of wholesale stores in a Chinese city on the border with Russia out of business, local business owners and experts said Sunday.
A wedding is as much a celebration of culture as a celebration of love. So when I, a Scottish man, and my fiancé Shelley, a Chinese woman, decided to get married in Tianjin, we wanted to honor our national traditions by having a mixture of both in our wedding.
The Chinese Ministry of Defense announced Thursday that China and Russia will launch a joint military drill in the South China Sea in September, a move observers say shows the two countries have formed a "semi-alliance" in the face of an increasingly assertive US.
Chinese experts called "groundless" a US think tank's report claiming China's policies in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region have driven Chinese Muslims to join the Islamic State (IS).
China said it is open to resume talks with the new Philippine government to mend differences to improve ties if Manila is willing, according to the Chinese foreign minister.
Ren Zhiqiang, an influential but controversial blogger whose social media accounts were closed in February for publishing "illegal information," will attend an environmental protection forum in June, the forum's organizer confirmed with the Global Times.
Ezubao, an online financing platform, has allegedly absorbed about 50 billion yuan ($7.6 billion) in funds, with about 900,000 investors involved, the Xinhua News Agency reported Sunday.
China's large and medium-sized steel companies lost 72 billion yuan ($11.22 billion) in the first 10 months of this year as they struggled with a collapse in steel prices. The average price of steel has plunged more than 30 percent this year due to many factors, including a drop in domestic demand stemming from China's economic slowdown.
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