Global Times 2019-09-25 17:56:16
An analysis on the US media outlet CNBC website on Monday called China an "economic superpower." On the same day, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison called China the "newly developed economy." I...
-- 2019-09-25 15:32:41
The United Nations and Myanmar government came under fire on Tuesday for their inaction in resolving the Rohingya crisis which has displaced more than a million people in the country. The UN’s...
-- 2019-09-25 12:23:23
The Philippine coast guard says seven rowers drowned and 14 others were rescued when their dragon boat was suddenly lashed by strong waves and overturned in the central Philippines. Coast guard spoke...
Reuters 2019-09-24 21:23:42
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 shook northern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing 19 people and injuring 100, government and police officials said. Photos and video carried by local media showed a collapsed...
Reuters 2019-09-24 20:46:30
An earthquake of magnitude 5.8 shook northern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing eight people and injuring 100, government and police officials said. Media photos and video showed a collapsed building and...
Global Times 2019-09-24 17:56:59
China's September loan prime rate (LPR) was lowered 5 basis points to 4.2 per cent for one-year maturities on Friday, according to the National Interbank Funding Center, a unit of the People's Bank of...
-- 2019-09-24 12:15:26
A Rohingya man was killed by a landmine blast in Bangladesh-Myanmar border near Bandarban Border on Monday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Majid, 33, son of Abdul Malek, a resident of Ku...
-- 2019-09-24 10:52:14
At least 16 people are dead and dozens injured in Indonesia's eastern region of Papua after hundreds of protesters, mostly high school students, set fire to several buildings in one city. Among the d...
Global Times 2019-09-23 18:33:44
China's development during the last 70 years is a remarkable story. Severely impacted by war during the first half of the 20th century, it rose to heights that no nation of that time could imagine. No...
-- 2019-09-23 12:02:29
Indonesian security forces were battling on Monday to restore order in a town in the easternmost province of Papua, a police spokesman said, following media reports of buildings set ablaze and gunfire...
Reuters 2019-09-23 11:25:44
Yemen’s Houthi movement said early on Monday that five civilians from one family were killed in airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition in Omran province in Yemen, according to the Houthi owned Al...
Xinhua 2019-09-22 17:30:21
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday stressed upholding the system of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), and improving the CPPCC work of political consultation, democrat...
-- 2019-09-22 13:46:44
Pakistani police say a bus has rammed into a hill after its brakes failed on a mountainous road, killing 22 passengers and injuring 15 in the country’s northwest. Officer Abdul Wakil says the a...
-- 2019-09-22 11:43:26
The UN has welcomed a proposal from Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels to end all attacks on Saudi Arabia as part of a peace initiative. A statement said the proposal could send "a powerful message of...
-- 2019-09-21 20:50:42
Iran is ready to destroy any country that launches an attack on its territory, a senior military official has said, after the US announced it was sending troops to support Saudi Arabia. "Be careful a...
Global Times 2019-09-21 17:25:09
After severing ties with China's island of Taiwan earlier this week, Solomon Islands established formally diplomatic relations with the Chinese mainland in Beijing on Saturday, a decision that acknowl...
Reuters 2019-09-21 12:19:54
The United States on Friday imposed another round of sanctions on Tehran, including on Iran’s central bank and a development fund, following last week’s attacks on oil facilities in Saudi...
Xinhua 2019-09-21 11:42:33
At least four Chinese speaking tourists were confirmed dead in a tour bus crash near Bryce Canyon National Park in US state of Utah on Friday, according to Utah Highway Patrol (UHP). A total of 30 pe...
-- 2019-09-21 10:48:47
The European Parliament (EP) has reiterated its call on the UN Security Council (UNSC) to impose a “global comprehensive arms embargo” on Myanmar. It also called for suspending all direct...
Reuters 2019-09-20 19:43:54
Tunisia’s Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, whose overthrow in a 2011 uprising triggered the “Arab Spring” revolutions, died in exile in Saudi Arabia on Thursday, days after a free presidenti...
Reuters 2019-09-20 19:19:17
A US drone strike intended to hit an Islamic State (IS) hideout in Afghanistan killed at least 30 civilians resting after a day’s labour in the fields, officials said on Thursday. The attack on...
-- 2019-09-20 18:36:39
The Pacific island nation of Kiribati cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan on Friday, becoming the second country to do so this week and strengthening Beijing's hand. Taiwan's Foreign Minister Joseph Wu s...
Xinhua 2019-09-20 15:26:44
China's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Zhang Jun said Thursday that China has to vote against a Security Council draft resolution on Syria as the text missed the essence of the humanit...
Xinhua 2019-09-19 17:54:44
China on Thursday issued a white paper on the progress of women's cause in the past 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China. The white paper, titled "Equality, Development and S...
-- 2019-09-19 17:41:50
Any US or Saudi military strike against Iran would result in "all-out war", Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said on Thursday. "I am making a very serious statement that we don't want wa...
-- 2019-09-19 16:38:50
At least 30 civilians were killed and 40 injured in an air strike conducted by the Afghan security forces, backed by US air support, in eastern Afghanistan, officials said on Thursday, reports Reuters...
-- 2019-09-19 12:43:37
A Taliban truck bomb killed at least 20 people and wounded 95 others when it exploded near a hospital in southern Afghanistan, an official said. The Taliban, who have been carrying out nearly daily a...
Reuters 2019-09-19 10:11:45
It’s harvest time, but the market in the northern Kashmiri town of Sopore - usually packed with people, trucks and produce at this time of year - is empty, while in orchards across India’s...
Global Times 2019-09-18 19:03:32
It was around 10:00pm when I found myself on a bus leaving Gimhae International Airport for downtown Busan in South Korea. The roads of the city that became famous in Asia for hosting the 2002 Asian G...
-- 2019-09-18 18:08:41
India's cabinet on Wednesday banned production and import of electronic cigarettes, a public health move that is seen dashing the expansion plans of companies such as Juul Labs and Philip Morris Inter...
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