One of Asia's biggest pop groups, SMAP, is to break up at the end of the year after a 25-year career. 亚洲最大流行音乐天团SMAP在出道25年之后,将于今年年底正式解散。 The Japanese boy band, which sold 35m records up to last...
President Xi Jinping will attend and chair the G20 summit to be held in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, from September 4 to 5, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said last Monday. 外交部发言人陆慷上周一称,国家主席习近平将出席并主...
The China Railway Corporation (CRC) announced last Monday that its China Standard bullet trains, also known as electric multiple units (EMUs), have started operation in Liaoning. 中国铁路总公司上周一宣布,中国标准动车组已开始在辽...
Vendors from China's largest e-commerce platform, Taobao, and its parent company the Alibaba Group last Monday denied rumors that K-pop merchandise and Korean celebrities' names are banned from appearing on the platform during the G20 summit amid sou...
China's pension insurance balance of urban employees and urban and rural residents added up to four trillion, according to the Annual Report on Social Security Development 2015. 根据《中国社会保险发展年度报告2015》显示,全国城镇职...
Next week Joe Biden, US vice-president, visits Turkey, a Nato country whose relations with the west are in deep crisis following Julys botched coup. A vast majority of Turkish people believe, rightly or wrongly but nonetheless firmly, that Washington...
Kids Company, a leading UK charity for disadvantaged children, collapsed a year ago amid allegations of gross financial mismanagement. 一年前,Kids Company倒闭了;倒闭前,这家帮助弱势儿童的英国领先慈善机构被指存在严重...
The US government committee responsible for clearing or blocking foreign investment into the country has approved ChemChinas $44bn takeover of Swiss agrobusiness company Syngenta. 美国政府下属一个负责批准或阻止外国投资进入国内的...
In his timely new book, Easternisation, Gideon Rachman articulates a clear and persuasive idea: that recent western exertions in the Middle East, the crises that grab the headlines and consume the energies of world leaders, will be seen in the arc of...
Great Britain has become a sporting superpower after the team was guaranteed to end the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in second place in the overall medal table, its best performance at the games for over a century. 英国已成为体育大国。在刚结...
Times Insider shares insights into how we work at The New York Times. In this article, Simon Romero explains how his job as Brazil bureau chief has evolved to include all sorts of additional (and unlikely) roles since friends and colleagues from arou...
The leaders of Germany, France and Italy will attempt to forge a common plan to bolster Europes economy and security as they gather on a tiny Mediterranean island near Naples to discuss the EUs future after Britains vote to leave the union. 德国、法...
In a field in a remote part of north-west Wales, a lone farmer cuts the grass, parcelling it up into hay bales which can be sold for a modest profit. His farm, and even the hill on which it sits, will soon be demolished by the Japanese-owned company...
After years of decline, the situation in Venezuela is becoming desperate. Could the latest fall in the oil prices provide the tipping point that finally brings to an end the unhappy period of Marxist rule begun by Hugo Chavez in 1999? 经历多年衰落...
An Olympics gives a host nation an opportunity to promote itself as an investment destination to foreign companies. Brazils task is more difficult than most, despite such prime assets as samba, Pel and a market of 200m people. The performance of earl...