Worsening air pollution in major Chinese cities has overshadowed the annual session of China's national lawmakers. Pollution control once again became one of the heated topics for panel discussion among the deputies of the National People's Congress...
Syrians are marking the second anniversary of the start of the civil war in the country. The two-year-long conflict has cost almost 70-thousand lives and reportedly forced a million to flee the country. The anniversary comes at the time when arming t...
China's energy production relies heavily on coal-fired power stations. As the world's highest emitter of greenhouse gasses, China consumed more than 400 million tones of coal last year. As many parts of China have been shrouded in a gray haze over th...
Aircraft maker Boeing says commercial flights of the grounded 787 Dreamliner jets could resume within weeks. We are going to be dependent upon, as we move through the certification process, to determine when we actually get back in the air in terms o...
The United Nations say global losses from natural disasters in the past year hit 138-billion US dollars. It is reported one hundred million people were affected in over three hundred natural disasters in 2012. Hurricane Sandy, cold snaps in Europe, a...
Syrians are marking the second anniversary of the start of the civil war in the country. The two-year-long conflict has cost almost 70-thousand lives and reportedly forced a million to flee the country. The anniversary comes at the time when arming t...
China's deep-sea economy is set to take a huge step forward as basic infrastructure construction gets under way in Sansha, the country's youngest city at its southernmost point. He Fei has the details. Located on Yongxing Island in the South China Se...
Lawmakers at this year's session of the National People's Congress have submitted about 400 motions. CRI's Zhang Ru takes a closer look on how their motions and suggestions will contribute to China's legal system. NPC deputy Pang Lijuan is an expert...
Li Keqiang has been endorsed as Chinese premier at the ongoing parliamentary session with nearly three-thousand deputies to the National people's Congress voting to approve his nomination. Li was nominated by newly elected President Xi Jinping Xi Jin...
Xi Jinping has been elected the Chinese president at the country's ongoing parliamentary session. Now I announce that Xi Jinping has been elected president of the People's Republic of China. Xi Jinping has also been elected as the chairman of the cou...
The National People's Congress - that's the Chinese parliament, has adopted a cabinet reshuffle plan at a plenary meeting in Beijing to improve overall efficiency. The endorsement of the plan will bring down the number of ministries under the State C...
The Freedom of the Press Foundation has posted the 68-minute recording of Bradley Manning's voice on its website. The audio excerpt from his testimony features Manning discussing his motivations behind releasing the cables and logs to WikiLeaks. I be...
The growing income gap has been acknowledged of having the tendency to trigger social unrest and hamper economic restructuring at the current meeting of China's top legislature. Chi Fulin, president of China Institute of Development and Reform, says...
China's growing number of microbloggers who expose power-abusing officials are becoming a force to be reckoned with. Public voices are getting louder in the age of the microblog. Independent journalist Ji Xuguang is credited with bringing down Lei Zh...
The EU's foreign policy chief is offering her condolences following death of an EU official working in Syria. Catherin Ashton says policy officer Ahmad Shihadeh was killed during a rocket attack while working in the suburbs of Damascus. Can I begin b...
