Thousands of Pakistani Shi'ite Muslims are continuing to protest in Quetta near the bodies of those killed in a sectarian attack on Saturday. Around 4-thousand Shia Muslim Hazara's, predominantly women, are taking part in the sit-in demonstration to...
China has taken over the management of a strategic deep-water Pakistani seaport. The port of Gwadar on Pakistan's southwestern coast has been transferred to China state-owned Overseas Ports Holding Company. The company will be fully responsible for o...
The revised measures for China's bank card industry requires banks to keep cardholders informed about their credit card service details such as various fee rates and possible risks. And banks are required to remind cardholders at least three days bef...
With a 3D printer, you can design your own item, either it's a cellphone cover or a 3D model of yourself, even something only exists in your imagination. But a high precision 3D printer has more practical application. Yao Junfeng is the general manag...
Hong Kong Disneyland's parade now has all the more reason for celebration, as the seven-year-old theme park has just announced its first ever net profit. The world's smallest Disneyland, which opened in September 2005, has posted its first net profit...
As the Spring Festival ends, people have posted various bills of the money they spent during the Spring Festival on the internet. This has stirred heated discussions about the costs of nationwide family-gathering holidays. Gu Jun, who works in the in...
Finance officials of the Group of 20, or G20, pledged to strengthen financial supervision and promote sustainable growth at the conclusion of a two-day meeting in Moscow. Meanwhile, China has welcomed efforts made by the United States and the Europea...
A British mother said her teenage backpacker son had been found alive after surviving three nights alone in the Australian outback. Eighteen-year-old Sam Derry-Woodhead got lost while jogging on a remote property in the central Queensland state near...
British authorities say traces of horsemeat have been found in school meals, restaurant dishes and hospital food, as well as in supermarket products. The announcement came as the European Union agreed to begin random DNA checks on meat products in a...
Meanwhile, a 45-meter wide asteroid has hurtled safely past earth after it came within 27-thousand kilometers, making it the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. The asteroid, named 2012 DA14 came closer to earth than many communication and we...
Photos showing Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez alongside his daughters in Havana have been released. The photos depict Chavez leaning on a bed, a blue pillow behind his head. He smiles broadly, while his daughters Rosa and Maria lean in close to him...
Prayers resound through Lanzhou every Friday afternoon as local Muslims gather for congregational prayer, or as Muslim people call it, Jumu'ah. During Jumu'ah, Muslims from around the city often come to Xiguan Mosque, the largest mosque in Lanzhou an...
Rio de Janeiro is the second largest city in Brazil, on the South Atlantic coast. Rio is famous for its breathtaking landscape, its laidback beach culture as well as its ubiquitous graffiti. From the sandy shores of Rio de Janeiro's wealthy beach are...
At Yeshivat Netivot school in Jerusalem, students were evacuated to a safe place and police, ambulances and fire trucks arrived soon after the alarm sounded. Chen Livni, Commander of Jerusalem District in the Home Front Command, says the exercise hel...
The place to meet Jana Danica is at the Lanzhou University library. Jana has been studying Chinese for 6 and half years, and earned a bachelor's degree in sinology. For the last 2 and half years she's been working on an environmental law program taug...
