-- 2019-11-27 14:21:48
A volunteer firefighter in Australia has been charged with deliberately lighting blazes during the nation's bushfire crisis. Police arrested the man, 19, for seven counts of alleged arson in an area...
Xinhua 2019-11-26 18:14:51
Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zheng Zeguang on Monday summoned U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad to lodge stern representations and strong protest against both the House of the Representatives...
Xinhua 2019-11-26 17:22:31
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)'s 10 member countries and South Korea agreed Tuesday to resist all forms of protectionism and enhance trade for regional prosperity. The agreement w...
-- 2019-11-26 16:31:43
Myanmar is in breach of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) as a chemical weapons stockpile may remain in the country, the United States said on Monday. Thomas DiNanno, Deputy Assistant Secretary o...
Xinhua 2019-11-25 17:04:55
China has been cracking down hard on illegal transactions related to virtual currency trading, the Economic Information Daily reported Monday. The country's financial regulator has demanded all-aroun...
Xinhua 2019-11-25 17:02:35
Japan and China have witnessed frequent high-level exchanges and positive progress in the improvement of bilateral relations recently, said Abe, adding that the Japanese side is eagerly looking forwar...
-- 2019-11-25 16:57:35
Saudi Arabia has detained at least eight people, mostly intellectuals and writers, two sources including London-based Saudi rights group ALQST said, amid a two-year crackdown on free expression in the...
-- 2019-11-25 13:30:18
Classified Chinese government documents made public by an international group of journalists describe the repressive inner workings of detention camps in Xinjiang, in a second rare leak in days of sec...
BBC 2019-11-25 12:31:00
Hong Kong's leader Carrie Lam has said the government will listen to the public with an open mind, after pro-Beijing candidates were resoundingly defeated in local elections. According to local media...
Reuters 2019-11-25 11:38:57
Hong Kong’s democrats romped to a landslide and symbolic majority in district council elections after residents turned out in record numbers on Sunday to vote following six months of anti-govern...
-- 2019-11-25 11:14:31
South Korea and Japan traded fresh barbs on Monday, just days after agreeing to salvage an important intelligence-sharing pact, highlighting the fragile ties between the former wartime foes and allies...
Xinhua 2019-11-24 17:07:47
China's high-speed railway network will continue to top the world with an estimated length of 35,000 km by the end of this year, said China Railway. The total length of China's railways will exceed 1...
Xinhua 2019-11-24 16:52:28
Eight security personnel have been confirmed dead as the armed insurgents stormed security checkpoints in Kajran district of the central Daikundi province on Sunday, provincial government spokesperson...
Global Times 2019-11-24 16:46:26
The organs of a two-year-old boy from Beijing, who died in a building collapse, have given four people hope for a long and healthy life and touched people's heart across China. Man Yu'ang, a boy from...
BBC 2019-11-24 14:22:48
Voters have turned out in record numbers to cast their ballots in Hong Kong's district council elections. By lunchtime, the number of voters had already surpassed the final total in the 2015 election...
Xinhua 2019-11-23 16:55:42
The air pollution level in the Indian capital of New Delhi and outskirts of the national capital region (NCR) remained very poor on Saturday, officials said. According to the Central Pollution Contro...
-- 2019-11-23 13:38:49
South Korea says it is to continue a military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan that had been threatened by a long-running dispute. The move was welcomed by the US which had urged the two countrie...
-- 2019-11-23 11:42:16
At least 12 people, including one child and five women, died and 10 others injured in a road mishap in Rajasthan state of India on Saturday, a local police officer said. All the travellers from the L...
-- 2019-11-23 11:35:40
International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has said the ICC judges feared that Myanmar may have ‘state policy’ to attack its minority Rohingya population in Rakhine. &ld...
Reuters 2019-11-22 20:29:08
The Australian state of New South Wales was gasping under the worst levels of air pollution ever recorded on Friday as smoke from widespread bushfires caused a spike in hospital visits and hazards inc...
Reuters 2019-11-22 13:15:05
A jury in New Zealand on Friday convicted a 27-year-old man of murdering a British woman backpacker, a case that shocked the country and raised questions about its reputation as a safe, easy-going hol...
-- 2019-11-21 14:39:33
Malaysian authorities have arrested 680 Chinese nationals suspected of operating an extensive online fraud operation cheating people in their homeland, officials said on Thursday. A team of 150 Immig...
-- 2019-11-21 13:47:08
The Chinese government warned self-ruled Taiwan on Thursday that it was courting “disaster”, after the running mate for President Tsai Ing-wen in January elections said he was working towa...
Reuters 2019-11-21 12:02:42
Aung San Suu Kyi will appear before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to contest a case filed by Gambia accusing Myanmar of genocide against its Rohingya Muslim minority, her government said on...
Global Times 2019-11-20 17:37:14
As the months-long violence in Hong Kong entered a deadly level in the past two weeks, with radical rioters turning university campuses into "terror camps" to engage in clashes with police, a public o...
-- 2019-11-20 17:08:58
Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is expected to resign on Wednesday as his party’s candidate lost in a presidential election over the weekend, two government sources said. “...
-- 2019-11-20 13:44:41
Heat and winds are threatening to widen Australia's bushfire crisis, with three states warned to expect their worst conditions of the season so far. Soaring temperatures in South Australia prompted "...
-- 2019-11-19 13:21:20
The United States on Monday effectively backed Israel’s right to build Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank by abandoning its four-decade-old position that they were “inconsistent...
-- 2019-11-19 12:34:10
The former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif, who is serving a prison sentence for corruption, has left the country to receive medical treatment in London. Sharif, a three-time prime minister, has...
-- 2019-11-19 11:49:24
Fifteen people were killed and nine others injured in a coal mine gas explosion in north China's Shanxi Province, local authorities said Tuesday. Investigation showed that 35 miners were working unde...
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