It's reported that U.S. President Joe Biden will impose a ban on most non-U.S. citizens from entering the country if they recently been in South Africa. Biden will also reinstate travel restrictions on the Schengen area of Europe, Britain, Ireland, a...
The White House has confirmed that President Joe Biden will be seeking a five-year extension to the New START arms control treaty with Russia. The treaty is due to expire early next month. It limits the United States and Russia to deploy no more than...
Chinese mainland reported over 120 local COVID-19 infections on Wednesday. 68 were found in Heilongjiang, 33 in Jilin, 20 in Hebei, two each in Beijing and Shanxi, and one in Shandong. Health authorities in Beijing have also identified the virus behi...
The Chinese President will attend the Davos Agenda of the World Economic Forum next Monday from Beijing via video link. The Foreign Ministry says Xi Jinping will attend the meeting and deliver a speech. In January 2017, the president addressed the op...
The net profit of China's centrally-administered State-owned enterprises grew by 2.1 percent year-on-year to 1.4 trillion yuan in 2020. But the total operating revenue fell 2.2 percent to 30 trillion yuan due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, near...
China's gross domestic product expanded 2.3 percent year on year in 2020 to cross the 100-trillion-yuan mark. Retail sales fell by over 3 percent co???mpared to the previous year while the total value added of industrial enterprises increased by 2.8...
At least three people are dead and 14 others trapped under the rubble after a 6.2-magnitude quake hit Indonesia's West Sulawesi province early Friday. The main building of the governor's office was among the many structures destroyed in the quake. Mo...
A prototype locomotive using high-temperature superconducting maglev technology has been rolled out in Chengdu. The domestically developed maglev train boasts a designed speed of 620 kilometers per hour. A 165-meter line to test the new train has als...
Chinese authorities have said WHO experts tasked with investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus will fly to Wuhan on Thursday from Singapore. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Zhao Lijian revealed this at a daily briefing. The National H...
Chinese authorities say experts from the World Health Organization tasked with investigating the origins of the novel coronavirus will arrive in China on January 14. The National Health Commission says the WHO team will visit China to conduct joint s...
China's consumer price index rose 2.5 percent overall in 2020. In December alone, inflation grew by 0.2 percent with food prices rising by 1.2 percent and service prices up 0.3 percent. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says that Democrats are ready to...
The Chinese mainland reported 37 new, local COVID-19 cases on Thursday. Most of them were found in Shijiazhuang. Citywide nucleic acid testing is ongoing while travel to and from the city has been restricted. Outgoing U.S. President Donald Trump has...
Twitter has suspended the account of US President Donald Trump for 12 hours after his supporters stormed the Capitol. The company also warns that future violations by Trump will result in a permanent suspension. Earlier in the day, Twitter, Facebook...
Visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi says China and Nigeria have reached a series of important consensuses on deepening bilateral cooperation. Wang Yi says two countries agreed to continue to strengthen cooperation in the fight against the COVID...
The United States is calling Iran's decision to enrich uranium to 20 percent nuclear extortion. The process was launched on Monday amid increasing tensions with Washington. Tehran developed the ability to produce 20-percent enriched uranium after it...