A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson on Friday rebuked certain Western politicians, media workers and scholars for fabricating lies about so-called "genocide" and "forced labor" in Xinjiang. Hua Chunying made the remarks at a press briefing when aske...

Although the global number of new COVID-19 cases has fallen for the fifth consecutive week, the world is still not out of the woods and now is not the time to let the guard down, senior officials from the World Health Organization (WHO) have warned. WHO...

The United States on Friday officially rejoined the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change, said U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. "The United States officially becomes a Party again today," Blinken said in a statement, calling the Paris Agreement...

A sun halo appears in the sky above the Singapore Flyer on Feb. 19, 2021. (Photo by Then Chih W...

China's central bank issued 25 billion yuan ($3.87 billion) worth of bills in Hong Kong on Friday. Among the total, 10 billion yuan worth of bills will mature in three months, and 15 billion yuan of bills will mature in 12 months, with the respective in...

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government has said that its approval procedures for COVID-19 vaccine by Sinovac are stringent and comprehensive. The HKSAR government made the remarks in a statement on Thursday in response to a media...

China's civil aviation industry handled 669,000 tonnes of air freight in January, up 10.5 percent year on year, according to the country's civil aviation authorities. China's air cargo transport showed a sound growth momentum with increasing freight vol...

The mRNA vaccine against the coronavirus developed by Chulalongkorn University of Thailand, is scheduled to enter the first stage of human trials soon, according to a university official. In Thursday's press conference, Kiat Ruxrungtham, who is in charg...

Thong Kimsoklina, a nurse at the National Pediatric Hospital of Cambodia, felt quite happy on Thursday after receiving her first shot of the China-donated COVID-19 vaccine. The 41-year-old nurse always faced the fear of getting infection and passing the...

A critically endangered wild duck has been spotted in a wetland in southwest China's Yunnan Province, according to local authorities. The image of a Baer's Pochard, which is under first-class state protection, was captured by a bird-watcher in Tengchong...