Sydney residents look towards 2050 by sh...

SYDNEY, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Residents of Sydney are being called on to have their say about how city should look 30 years from now, with an online survey launched on Friday to capture their vision of

Baidu's self-driving taxis to run in Cha...

CHANGSHA, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Self-driving taxis are expected to run on the streets in the central Chinese city of Changsha in the second half of 2019 thanks to the cooperation between the city and a

Chinese city protects giant rocks from f...

JINAN, April 4 (Xinhua) -- All giant rock storage and trading sites are to be closed in the city of Tai'an, eastern China's Shandong Province, since April 1, according to the city government. The roc

Bomb hits public bus in E. Afghan city, ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan, April 4 (Xinhua) -- Several civilians were wounded after a bomb struck a public bus in Jalalabad city in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, a local official said.

London gives greenlight to new controver...

LONDON,April 2 (Xinhua) -- The go-ahead was given Tuesday to a new skyscraper tower in the heart of London designed in the shape of a tulip. The City of London Planning Committee granted planning per

Across China: Going rural, a new trend f...

GUIYANG, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Having lived in the city for years, retiree Pi Yu wants to escape the endless flow of cars, concrete high-rises and the fast-paced life. "I've lived in the city for too l

Premier League: Liverpool keep pressure ...

As Liverpool have pushed Manchester City at the top of the Premier League, Tottenham have slipped far from title contention. Toby Alderweireld's 90th-minute own-goal helped Liverpool beat Tottenham 2

Eastern Libyan government allocates 1.3 ...

TRIPOLI, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Libya's eastern-based government on Sunday announced allocating 1.767 billion dinars (1.3 billion U.S. dollars) to stabilize the eastern city of Benghazi that is largely

Central China's Wuhan to run for int'l w...

WUHAN, March 31 (Xinhua) -- The city of Wuhan in central China's Hubei Province will apply for the 2021 Wetland City Accreditation of the Ramsar Convention, the municipal forestry bureau announced. T

Tech innovation leads metro expansion in...

by Simon Eric Haywood GUANGZHOU, March 31 (Xinhua) -- South of Guangzhou, work continues apace on the construction of several metro lines, seeing some of the city's deepest tunneling through technica