Foreign Ministry Spokesperson announces: At the invitation of Member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi, Myanmar’s Minister for Foreign Affairs Tin Maung Swe will pay an official visit to China from June 4 to 6.
The reactivation and rapid rise of Japan's military-industrial complex represents another major development in Japan's accelerating remilitarization. It is raising widespread concern both within Japan and across the international community, Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Mao Ning said at a press conference on Friday. Mao made the remarks when asking to comment that media reports showed […]
Lau Shun, a well-known actor from China's Hong Kong Special Administrative Region who appeared in many acclaimed films, has passed away on May 29 at the age of 87, veteran Hong Kong singer-actor Law Kar-ying said in a long message posted on Sina Weibo on Saturday, mourning the passing of his senior fellow artist. In […]
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released a draft for soliciting opinions on management of cybersecurity incident reporting on Friday. The draft specifies that the theft of national security information should be recognized as a severe cybersecurity incident, and those who fail to report it as required will be subject to punishment. According to the […]
With the name Temple of Heaven, an artwork jointly created by Chinese contemporary artist Zou Cao and “isolated elders,” or elderly people who have no family, has recently been finished and revealed to the public. The art piece took Zou and his partners two months to create. There are 10 different versions of the art prints. […]
Physicists have snagged a bounty of five new particles in one go. Members of the LHCb experiment, located at the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, reported the prolific particle procurement in a paper posted online March 14 at arXiv.org. The five particles are each composed of three quarks — a class of particle that makes […]
Nomadic warriors and herders known as the Huns are described in historical accounts as having instigated the fifth century fall of the Roman Empire under Attila’s leadership. But the invaders weren’t always so fierce. Sometimes they shared rather than fought with the Romans, new evidence suggests. Huns and farmers living around the Roman Empire’s eastern […]
A common and usually harmless virus may trigger celiac disease. Infection with the suspected culprit, a reovirus, could cause the immune system to react to gluten as if it was a dangerous pathogen instead of a harmless food protein, an international team of researchers reports April 7 in Science. In a study in mice, the […]
Pregnant women who do not have enough folic acid — a B vitamin — in their bodies can pass the deficiency on to their unborn children. It may lead to retarded growth and congenital malformation, according to Dr. A. Leonard Luhby…. “Folic acid deficiency in pregnant women could well constitute a public health problem of […]
Immediately after a 19-year-old shot and killed 17 people and wounded 17 others at a Florida high school on Valentine’s Day, people leaped to explain what had caused the latest mass slaughter. By now, it’s a familiar drill: Too many readily available guns. Too much untreated mental illness. Too much warped masculinity. Don’t forget those […]