The president of Seychelles has refuted doubts over the effectiveness of China's COVID-19 vaccine produced by Sinopharm amid the epidemic surge in the country. President Wavel Ramkalawan said the vaccine is effectively helping to protect people from get...

Eight students and a teacher were killed in a school shooting in the Russian city of Kazan, a source in the emergencies services told Russian state media on Tuesday. At least 32 people who were injured have been taken to hospitals, another source, in th...

Zhang Jun, China's permanent representative to the United Nations and president of the UN Security Council for May, condemned on Monday the violence against civilians in the Middle East and called on the international community to take action to move to...

China's increasing elderly population is both a challenge and an opportunity, said Ning Jizhe, head of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), on Tuesday. Chinese people aged 60 or above account for 18.7 percent of the country's total population, 5.44...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) will continue to "work with full engagement" towards a safe Olympics, an IOC spokesperson told Xinhua. Japanese prime minister Yoshihide Suga said on Monday that he had never put Olympics first when asked if the...

The death toll at a school shooting in the Russian city of Kazan on Tuesday has increased to nine, with four others hospitalized, local media reported. Earlier reports said that a 17-year-old, who has been detained, shot dead a teacher and six students...

Workers conduct construction at the World Tourism Museum in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, May 10...

The Fifth Silk Road International Exposition opened Tuesday in Xi'an, capital of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, with deeper Belt and Road economic cooperation one of the hot topics on agenda. Themed "Interconnection, Contribution and Shared Benefit...

China has made positive achievements in vigorously developing higher education and eliminating illiteracy among young adults over the past 10 years, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) said Tuesday. The education level of the population has continuo...

A young girl takes photos in a “Twist Psychedelic Box” in the Donald Duck themed event at Time...