The city of San Francisco is giving an additional $1.7 million to the Getting to Zero initiative which aims to make the city free of new HIV/AIDS infections in the whole US.
China has released a national plan on Thursday, Oct. 29, showing that the country is determined to finish building its satellite systems for remote sensing, communications and navigation before 2020, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
Foreign intelligence agencies are now trying to get Chinese citizens to provide them with national secrets, as revealed in the stories of those arrested for espionage cases.
China just abandoned its one-child policy after 35 years since it was put in place in 1980. Beijing, after a meeting of the Community Party on Thursday, said it would allow all couples to have two children.
China will now allow couples to have two children, effectively ending the decades-long one-child policy of the world’s most populous nation, the Communist Party of China (CPC) announced on Thursday at the end of a four-day plenary session in Beijing.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel met with President Xi Jinping on Thursday, Oct. 29, during her visit to the Chinese capital of Beijing. The meeting between the two leaders is expected to result in strengthened Sino-German ties and possibly more Sino-EU cooperation.
In the next five years, China aims to reach a mid- to high-level economic growth and encourage increased consumption, according to a report by China Daily.
The Canadian Orthodox Church announced on Wednesday the demotion to monk of a 69-year-old Seraphim Storheim, a former archbishop who used to be the highest-ranking official in Canada of the Orthodox Church in America.
According to media outfit Duowei News, China has contributed at least five "universal values." These are ideals and srategies that the economic giant has sought after during the pat three decades.
The People's Liberation Army has earned the nod of experts and observers after showing enhanced capabilities. The boost can be traced from the modernization drive initiated by the government.
China Communications Construction Co. Ltd., a state-owned company, has struck an essential preliminary agreement to develop an industrial park in western Mexico, according to a report by China Daily.
The issue of energy will take center stage as China’s top leaders gather in Beijing this week during a session of the Communist Party of China Central Committee to formulate proposals for the 13th Five-Year Plan (2016-2020).
Today's children are showing higher rates of conditions and diseases such as high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and heart disease, and while fatty foods and higher obesity rates have been blamed, a new study reveals that calories from added sugar are unique and toxic. After the sweet added substance was removed from kids' diets their general health improved in only 10 days. Some results included lower cholesterol levels and better control of blood sugar.
More than 1,100 livestock farms in Shanghai that failed to comply with hygiene standards will be shuttered by March next year, part of the local government’s intensified efforts to curb pollution in the city.
Police in central China’s Henan Province have arrested a real estate tycoon suspected of robbing a bank 16 years ago with four other suspects, the authorities announced on Tuesday.
