The China Manned Space Agency (CMSA) unveiled the crew of upcoming Shenzhou-16 manned spaceflight mission on Monday. Veteran taikonaut Jing Haipeng, who will visit space for the fourth time during the mission set to be launched on Tuesday at 9:31 am, will serve as the mission commander and...more

Editor's Note: The Group of Seven (G7) summit, under Japan's rotating presidency, is scheduled to be held later this week in Hiroshima, which suffered a lot from the atomic bombings in World War II. But the Japanese government has seemingly failed to learn from history and insists on...more

Editor's note: Located at the confluence of cold and warm currents, the coastal area of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, has a rich variety of sea life and a long history of local fishing. In the 12 years since the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the fishing...more

Editor's Note: The Fukushima Prefecture in northeastern Japan is known as "the island of happiness," which embodies people's longing for a better life. Summer began in Fukushima in early May when locals normally look forward to intimate contact with the sea. However, despite strong opposition at home and...more

A couple of days ago, a Quad summit meeting in Sydney scheduled for May 24 was abruptly canceled. The US president had to pull out of his long-anticipated trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea. Instead, the heads of the four Quad member states got together on the...more

China's entertainment industry has witnessed a flourishing trend in TV storytelling and variety shows in recent years, characterized by intense plots and fast-paced narratives. However, amid this prevailing trend, another genre of film and TV programs has emerged, celebrating the intricate details of rural life and promoting the...more

On the day that Special Representative of the Chinese Government on Eurasian Affairs Li Hui visited Moscow on the last leg of his European trip, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ran an article that completely contradicted the facts and even fabricated stories. Such behavior that attempted to impose...more

When one walks or drives around Lhasa, the capital of the Xizang Autonomous Region in China, one notices a unique phenomenon. Teams of workers are on the slopes of the mountains to the north and south of the river valley in which Lhasa is located. And what are...more

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the country's new parliament building on Sunday. The old parliament, built almost a century ago during the British colonial era, will be converted into a museum. The new building is considered the core project of the Modi administration's Central Vista Redevelopment Project,...more

A Chinese company vows to build the world’s first all-high-temperature superconducting tokamak using artificial intelligence technology by the end of this year, as more stakeholders are looking ahead to the development of the nuclear fusion energy, which is believed to be the future ideal "ultimate energy" for humankind....more

A new COVID-19 infection wave in 2023 will likely peak in late June at about 65 million cases per week, China's top respiratory disease expert Zhong Nanshan said Monday. Zhong made the remarks at the 2023 Greater Bay Area Science Forum on Monday in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong...more

Debugging and testing began on Monday on the Jakarta-Bandung High-Speed Railway (HSR), a landmark project under the China-proposed Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It marks an important milestone before the full launch of the project. To ensure the safe and stable operation of the train, strict testing, inspection...more

China's wild populations of more than 300 rare and endangered species including Asian elephants, snow leopards and orchids have steadily increased in recent years, thanks to systematic protection projects, the National Forestry and Grassland Administration said on Monday, marking part of the country's efforts to maintain biodiversity. With...more

Cathay Pacific Airways, a Hong Kong-based airline, apologized for a third time on Tuesday evening and dismissed three flight attendants following two apology statements released on Tuesday morning and Monday evening, after a passenger complained that cabin crew kept using discriminatory words against non-English-speaking passengers during a flight....more

Following the latest G7 summit and Quad meeting that outlined a strong stance against China and ramped up efforts to hype China-related issues, US President Joe Biden adopted an apparently softer tone by claiming that the frosty bilateral relations between China and the US will begin to "thaw"...more