China court opens trial on massive fund-...
NANJING, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The trial regarding an online platform that illegally raised funds from the public and whose unpaid principals amounted to 30 billion yuan (4.4 billion U.S. dollars) bega
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China court opens trial on massive fund-...
NANJING, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The trial regarding an online platform that illegally raised funds from the public and whose unpaid principals amounted to 30 billion yuan (4.4 billion U.S. dollars) bega
Welfare lottery sales hit 1.2 tln over 6...
BEIJING, April 1 (Xinhua) -- The total sales of China's welfare lottery tickets hit over 1.23 trillion yuan (183.7 billion U.S. dollars) between 2013 and 2018, official data said. More than 351.6 bil
Gold futures jump to 10-month high ahead...
Gold futures on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange closed at 10-month high on Tuesday, as traders awaited a fresh round of talks between the United States and China. The most act
What's been said on social media, Feb. 2...
The following is a selection of the latest posts on social media. Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Vietnam (@PressDept_MoFA on Twitter) At the invitation of the Gen.Sec. of the CPV/
The U.S. and its allies planted the seed...
Editor's note:Ken Moak taught economic theory, public policy and globalization at the university level for 33 years and co-authored a book titled "China's Economic Rise and Its Global Impact" in 2015
Egypt rescues ancient Greco-Roman cataco...
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities celebrated on Sunday the completion of a project removing underground water from 2,000-year-old catacombs in the northern s
Surface water quality up to standard aft...
BEIJING, March 28 (Xinhua) -- The quality of surface water near a site of a deadly blast has reached safe standards, the Ministry of Ecology and Environment spokesperson Liu Youbin said Thursday. The
Ukrainian police open 117 election-relat...
KIEV, March 4 (Xinhua) -- The National Police of Ukraine said on Monday it had opened 117 election-related criminal cases since the start of the presidential election campaign on Dec. 31, 2018.Out of
Chinese-developed cloud platform for cer...
BEIJING, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese-developed "Landing" artificial intelligence (AI) cloud platform for cervical cancer screening is set to open to the world from April, the center that has dev
Mercedes Concept EQV delivers an all-ele...
Mercedes-Benz revealed Tuesday the Concept EQV, an all-electric premium van designed to travel up to 249 miles on a single charge.Concepts often times never become production vehicles. But this one wi
Zimbabwe in search of more bodies with h...
Sniffer dogs have identified at least 16 spots suspected to have bodies of people trapped under debris from Cyclone Idai in eastern Zimbabwe, the state broadcaster ZBC reported Friday. Chimanimani an
U.S. tourist caught attempting theft fro...
WARSAW, April 1 (Xinhua) -- An American tourist could face a lengthy jail term after being caught attempting to steal a piece of historic railway track from a notorious former Nazi concentration camp
U.S. dollar rises amid improved risk app...
NEW YORK, March 1 (Xinhua) -- The U.S. dollar rose in late trading on Friday as risk appetite was improved across financial markets. The dollar index, which measures the greenback against six major p
Roundup: Finnish PM endorses wider usage...
HELSINKI, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The issue of the future level of utilization of the Finnish forest polarized further on Sunday as Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila implied his objection to shut down a
2018: Aluminum tariffs cost U.S. beverag...
The U.S. beverage industry paid about 250 million U.S. dollars in Section 232 tariffs for aluminum cansheet between March and December last year, and the industry is "overpaying", according to a rece
China treasury bond futures close mixed ...
BEIJING, March 4 (Xinhua) -- China's treasury bond futures closed mixed on Monday, with the contract for March 2019 closing 0.2 percent higher at 99.66 yuan (about 14.86 U.S. dollars). The contract f
Israel unveils new military land system ...
JERUSALEM, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) governmental company unveiled Monday an advanced system for military land platforms against GPS jamming. The new system "ADA-O", an ad
ChiNext Index close higher at midday Fri...
BEIJING, March 29 (Xinhua) -- The ChiNext Index, tracking China's NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, went up 2.95 percent to 1,674.76 points in the morning session Friday. The ChiNext Index, t
China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau has first ...
China's Qinghai-Tibet Plateau recently had its first 5G base station opened in the city of Xining, Qinghai Province, according to the Qinghai subsidiary of telecom firm China Mobile. The service was
6 killed in blast in NW Pakistan
ISLAMABAD, Jan. 30 (Xinhua) -- At least six people of a family were killed in a blast inside a house in Pakistan's northwest Bannu district on late Tuesday, local reports said. The blast happened due