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Thursday, October 24, 2013
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China plans to launch the heavy-lift carrier rocket Long March-9 in 2028, said an official of China National Space Administration (CNSA) at the World Conference on Science Literacy 2018 on Tuesday.
The Beijing Public Transport Corporation is planning to open a "taxi-like" service in which passengers can order a bus online and take it with people heading to the same destination.
Typhoon Mangkhut has rolled into southern China's Guangxi at a speed of 30 km per hour on Sunday night, after it made landfall in the city of Jiangmen in Guangdong Province.
Super Typhoon Mangkhut landed at 5 p.m. on Sunday on the coast of Jiangmen City, south China's Guangdong Province, packing winds up to 162 km per hour, according to the provincial meteorological station.
Various activities are scheduled to be held from Sept. 15 to Sept. 21 across China to greet the 2018 National Science Day held each year.
The 74th joint patrol on the Mekong River by law enforcement from China, Laos, Myanmar and Thailand began on Tuesday.
The Taihe Forum on Protecting the World's Ancient Civilizations concluded at the Palace Museum in Beijing on Tuesday.
The ADB said the loan for a complementary set of initiatives to improve flood management and ecological conservation in the Longxi River watershed is a key project under ADB's new Yangtze River Economic Belt Framework.
Researchers of China's Longmen Grottoes are watching closely the investigations into a stone Buddha head removed from an auction in New York, which may be from the UNESCO world heritage site.
Director Jiang Zhangke's new gangland flick "Ash Is Purest White" is scheduled to open in Chinese theatres this Friday.
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un will hold their third summit in Pyongyang from Tuesday to Thursday as agreed upon in their April summit at the border village of Panmunjom.
Short-term challenges from the escalating trade spat with the United States have reassured Chinese officials and experts of the need to support market-oriented reform and opening-up, with a particular focus on reducing debt and limiting government intervention.
China's 500-meter aperture spherical radio telescope or FAST is expected to be put into use for Chinese astronomers next year, announced Chinese astronomer Li Di from Chinese Academy of Science on Saturday.
The head of the London Stock Exchange has been actively promoting the number of firsts that will be involved in the Shanghai-London Stock Connect system when it opens later on this year.
Vietnam's national flag carrier Vietnam Airlines has decided to cancel and delay flights to and from China's Hong Kong on Sunday and Monday to avoid impacts from super typhoon Mangkhut.
A batch of announcements were made at the Global Climate Action Summit by a cross section of industries and countries to take the efforts of battling climate change to a higher level.
China won the gold medal of the lightweight women's quadruple sculls at the World Rowing Championships in Bulgaria's city of Plovdiv on Friday.
Chinese tech giant Huawei, the Spanish CRIS Cancer Foundation and two-time World figure skating Champion Javier Fernandez on Thursday presented a three-way agreement to fight against cancer in children.
Dozens of suspected gas explosions and fires hit across three communities north of Boston, the U.S. state of Massachusetts, on Thursday, prompting numerous evacuations of neighborhoods, state police said.
BMW spokesman, Alexander Schmuck, has announced that the company will stop selling its diesel-powered cars in American market next year. He was speaking at the press preview for the company's redesigned 2019 X5 crossover SUV in Atlanta.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin visited All-Russian Children's Center "Ocean" in Vladivostok, Russia on Wednesday to promote friendship between the two countries' youths.
The Fourth China Tibet Tourism and Culture Expo has attracted nearly 90 billion yuan (13 billion U.S. dollars) of investment, the organizer said Tuesday.
Apple Inc is likely to suffer greatly from the ongoing China-US trade tension, as experts said moving production of its iPhones from China to the United States could lead to a price rise of as much as 20 percent.
A report on China's outbound tourism recently released by China Tourism Academy and online travel service Ctrip shows that 71.3 million Chinese traveled abroad in the first six months this year, up by 15 percent year on year.
Beijing Internet Court, the second of its kind in China, was set up to protect business transactions, personal information, and intellectual property online.
Tourists watch lion dance during a lantern fair to greet the upcoming Lantern Festival in Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, Feb. 26, 2018.
