Havana. The Communist Party of Russia awarded the Lenin Prize to Army General Raúl Castro Ruz, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba, according to Sputnik. "The presidency of the Party awarded the Lenin Prize to Raúl Castro, for his outstanding contribution to...More

Beijing. Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday sent a congratulatory letter to the Belt and Road News Network (BRNN) First Council Meeting, expecting the platform to further boost people-to-people exchanges and promote the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) to provide more substantial results for the people. The meeting,...More

Beinjing. After making unprecedented and stunning achievements in poverty alleviation, China has entered a critical stage of its vow to lift all Chinese people out of poverty. From a historical perspective, China's great determination will promote the progress of human civilization. Hence, it has drawn positive attention around...More

Beijing. In a latest move to tighten its regulation on studies of human genes and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, China is mulling formulating a special section in its overarching law governing legal disputes following the scandal over gene-edited babies and the AI face-stitching technology controversy. The draft civil...More

Kathmandu. President Bidya Devi Bhandari appoints Samim Miyan Ansari as the Chairman of the Muslim Commission (Muslim Aayog) of Nepal. President Bhandari on Thursday appointed him and chiefs of four other different constitutional bodies. The Constitution Council on January 20 had recommended former secretary Balananda Paudel as Chairman...More

My mother is an old-fashioned middle aged woman with little interest in new technology. Smartphones to her are virtually no different from the older devices. For her, the instrument is only a tool for making calls and sending messages. But astonishingly, the recent two months have seen her...More

Beijing. Southwest China's Sichuan Province will implement a points-based system to manage all members and probationary members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) in 117 organs under the provincial government, the Sichuan Online reported Monday. CPC members in Sichuan will be scored every month, and the points...More

Premier Li Keqiang visited Europe from April 8 to 12 for the China-EU leaders' meeting, the eighth summit between China and Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs), and paid an official visit to the Balkan nation of Croatia. It marks the second trip by China's top leaders to...More

On April 5, US President Donald Trump said that China, Russia and the US are all making hundreds of billions of dollars worth of weapons, including nuclear, which is ridiculous and that he thinks it'd be much better if they all got together and didn't make these armaments....More

Dear Deputies, The First Session of the 14th Supreme People's Assembly of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is convened at a time when the prestige and strength of our Republic advancing along the road of independence are being demonstrated to the full and its socialist construction has...More

HAVANA. Education in Cuba is wonderful, it is a model for developing countries as well as richer ones, Sheryl Lutjens, professor at California State University in the United States, told ACN. Sheryl Lutjens, coordinator for a quarter of a century of meetings between teachers from Cuba and the...More

HAVANA. Cuba proclaimed this April 10 its new Constitution at an extraordinary session of the National Assembly of People's Power marked by a great symbolism by the remembrance of the first Magna Carta of the Republic in Arms, whose 150th anniversary is celebrated today. The proclamation speech was...More

HAVANA. Cuba is an absolutely vital ally for the United Nations, said María Fernanda Espinosa, president of the General Assembly of that multilateral organization, on her arrival in Havana on Wednesday. The UN needs countries like Cuba since it is one of the great defenders of the multilateral...More

We, 350 representatives of peasants, landless peasants and agricultural workers, small producers of food and different agricultural commodities & agro-forestry, youth and women peasants, fisher folks, livestock holders and pastoralists, agricultural co-operatives, organic producers, Dalits and Adivasis, agricultural experts, peasants' organizations and coalitions, community-based organizations, civil society organizations,...More

Beijing. China and New Zealand should strive to provide a fair, transparent and convenient environment for companies from both countries, and China is willing to support competitive companies to invest in New Zealand, Chinese President Xi Jinping said at a meeting with New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern...More