The Chinese Foreign Ministry says it expects the new Japanese ambassador to play a positive role in improving the strained relationship between the nations. Incoming Japanese ambassador to China, Masato Kitera is due to arrive in Beijing this week. F...
Chinese lawmakers will deliberate on amendments to the Land Administration Law. The draft amendment proposes raising compensation for farmers whose collectively-owned land is expropriated and suggests stricter rules to manage excessive land expropria...
China's top legislature, the Standing Committee of National People's Congress, has started this week to review a number of draft laws, law amendments and revisions, including a new draft decision on Internet management. CRI's Su Yi has more: Reporter...
Egypt's main opposition says it will appeal the result of the constitutional referendum, claiming electoral fraud and widespread violations. Initial results from the final round of voting on Saturday show 63 percent of voters back the charter. Nation...
The Syrian Observation for Human Rights says at least 60 civilians have been killed in a government air strike on a bakery in Hama province in what could be the deadliest air strikes of the civil war. Meanwhile, Syrian Information Minister Omran al-Z...
Italy's outgoing technocrat Prime Minister says he is not taking sides in upcoming elections. I don't side with anyone, personally. I would be much more interested if the Monti agenda - and I apologise if my name appears here - would serve to provide...
South Korean officials say North Korea's recent rocket launch shows Pyongyang is capable of firing a rocket that would reach the west coast of the United States. A South Korean defense ministry official speaking on the condition of anonymity says the...
With Christmas upon us, many of us are much more likely to respond to charity advertisements featuring hardship and poverty. But in an article for the BBC, UK charity founder Georgie Fienberg argues for an end to what she calls pity aid, and for peop...
A foreign language instruction with kids should start as early as possible and when it turns to Chinese-language teaching in the United States, some directors of Confucius Institute there give a similar attitude and propose they build a pipeline of s...
Related: Profile of John Kerry US President Barack Obama has nominated Senator John Kerry as his next secretary of state, elevating the longtime lawmaker and foreign policy expert to the top diplomatic job he had coveted. Obama says Kerry has all the...
Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia is not a defender of Syrian President Bashar Assad, but reaffirms that peace in Syria can only be achieved through talks. Putin's statement came at the end of a summit with European leaders in Brussels. I...
The Guatemalan descendants of the ancient Mayan civilisation have held a traditional Last Sun ceremony to welcome the dawning of the start of the new Mayan calendar on Friday. December 21st marks the end of an age in the 5-thousand year-old Mayan cal...
Everybody has their own aspirations and pursuits. We can say that everyone has a dream. Now, we are all talking about the Chinese dream. In my opinion, the greatest Chinese dream in modern China is to realize the rejuvenation of our nation. Xi Jinpin...
We are a country that is in the development and we value the investment of China to our country. Rwandan Finance Minister John Rwangombwa praises the flow of Chinese investment into his country. Between 2005 and 2009, Rwanda-China trade increased fiv...
Rovaniemi is certainly an out of the way area. It's hundreds of kilometers from most of Scandinavia's well known cities. But despite this, tourism is booming in the far north, despite austerity and financial crises elsewhere in Europe. Over half a mi...
