LONDON, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- Smoking is the biggest preventable risk factor for serious lung diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the Public Health England (PHE) warned on Tuesday. COPD is the umbrella term for serious lung c...
Ranga-Ram Chary, U.S. Planck Data Center's project manager in California, recently discovered a mysterious glow by mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background, otherwise known as the light that was left over from a few hundred thousand years after the Bi...
Soon after the conclusion of the 2016 national post-graduate entrance examination on Sunday, the Ministry of Education was informed of suspected leaks of exam questions. 2016年全国硕士研究生招生考试周日结束后不久，教育部即接到...
China's online retail volume is expected to outperform the rest of the world by reaching four trillion yuan (618 billion USdollars) this year, Commerce Minister Gao Hucheng said Sunday. 周日，商务部长高虎城表示，今年中国网上零售额...
The American College of Sports Medicine forecast that wearable technology would be the number one fitness trend for the New Year after the institution interviewed 2,800 professionals worldwide. Wearable technology includes fitness trackers, smart wat...
BEIJING, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- The highly-anticipated stock listing reform, which will be launched in March of 2016 at the earliest according to the latest legal changes, is set to usher in a new era for China's stock market, officials and experts have...
China's top legislature has officially adopted this country's first counter-terrorism law. Lawmakers have approved the legislation at the end of a week-long bimonthly session of the National People's Congress Standing Committee. The new law, which ta...
The head of one of Syria's most powerful rebel groups has been killed in an airstrike east of Damascus. Syrian rebels and the government said Friday that Zahran Alloush, founder of the Army of Islam, was killed in a raid that targeted the group's hea...
Official figures from the Ministry of Transportation show emissions from car exhaust account for 31 percent of the country's total air pollution. In an effort to bring that figure down, the central government has been supporting a series of subsidies...
SHIJIAZHUANG, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- A listed Chinese herbal medicine maker on Thursday said its compound flu formula has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clinical tests. The decision has paved the way for Chinese h...
The Supreme People's Procuratorate announcement comes just a day after a State Council investigation team confirmed the landslide is being probed as a work safety incident, not a geological disaster. The massive pile that poured down to the industria...
BEIJING, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Law Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC) has suggested to delete a controversial provision on banning surrogate pregnancy in a draft law amendment. Lawmakers have quite different opinions over this provis...
Sun Geng, Chief Operating Officer of LL Travel Enterprise, the biggest travel agency for Chinese tourists travelling to the States, has predicted that the 2016 Spring Festival period will be their busiest time, with more than 5000 Chinese travellers...
Apple has struck a long-awaited deal with UnionPay and 15 Chinese banks to launch its mobile payments service in China. 苹果(Apple)与中国银联(UnionPay)及15家中国银行达成了一项人们期待已久的协议，将在中国推出其移动支...
Smartphone rivals Apple and Samsung Electronics are mounting a challenge to Alibabas dominance of Chinas emerging mobile payment market, after announcing co-operation deals with Chinese bank card network UnionPay. 互为对手的智能手机制造商苹...
