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A shallow 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck the island of Mindanao in the southern Philippines on Sunday, killing at least four people, local officials have said.
Tremors of the 6.9-magnitude quake in the Philippines were strongly felt in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province on Sunday, but not potential for tsunami, the meteorology and geophysics agency said.
The Hong Kong International Airport witnessed a significant drop in passenger number for November as social unrest continued to weigh down a wide range of industries, in particular tourism.
An planetarium opened its door to the public for trial operation in Lhasa on Saturday.
More than 12 million Chinese mainland and Taiwan netizens have picked the Chinese character "kun," meaning trapped, as the word of the year for 2019, expecting cross-Strait relations to break free from the trap next year.
Nearly 200 rescuers are racing against the clock to reach the trapped miners.Due to communication interruptions in some mining areas, the workers were not immediately located.
Lo Yuk-ming, a professor of chemical pathology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong best known for his contributions to non-invasive prenatal testing benefiting millions of mothers and newborns worldwide each year, said he plans to expand the technique to early cancer detection to improve survival rates among cancer sufferers.
A 16th person has been confirmed dead in an Australian hospital following the White Island deadly eruption in New Zealand, the New Zealand Police said on Sunday.
Turnover on China's National Equities Exchange and Quotations (NEEQ), also known as the "new third board," reached 75.9 billion yuan (about 10.8 billion U.S. dollars) from the start of the year to Dec.
A 6.8-magnitude earthquake hit the Mindanao Island of the Philippines at 2:11 p.m.The quake struck at a depth of about 30 km.
The Indian space research organisation (ISRO) would soon set up a third rocket launchpad in the country, officials said Sunday."The district administration has appointed a special official along with eight more senior officials to speed up the process of land acquisition for the centre," an official said.
Through the summit, China hopes to upgrade win-win cooperation, open up new prospects of mutual benefit, and push for new development of China-Europe relations, he said.
Nearly 60 percent of the respondents said they make nighttime purchases at least twice a week and around 9.1 percent make purchases nearly every night, according to the survey of 1,977 people aged between 18 and 35.
State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Saturday that the China-US deal on the text of a phase-one economic and trade agreement serves as bullish news for both countries and the rest of the world.
The phase-one economic and trade deal between United States and China will be beneficial to business sentiment and economic growth in multiple countries around the world, an expert with Swiss financial institution UBS said on Friday.
China suspended the planned additional tariffs on some US products to be implemented at 12:01 pm on Dec 15 (Beijing Time), the Customs Tariff Commission of the State Council said Sunday.
Law enforcers arrested three men Saturday on suspicion of their involvement in testing home-made bombs with remote-control devices in the city’s Tuen Mun district.
The permanent migrant population of Beijing recorded continuous drop over the past three years, the Beijing Daily reported, according to a population blue book published by the Party School of the Beijing Municipal Party Committee and the Social Sciences Academic Press (China) in Beijing on Saturday.
Four people were confirmed dead while another 14 remained unaccounted for in a flooded coal mine in Southwest China's Sichuan province by 22:43 on Saturday.
In the past 20 years after Macao Special Administrative Region's (Macao SAR) return to China, with the full efforts from the SAR government in building long-term efficient mechanisms in areas including social welfare, education and health, Macao residents' livelihoods have been greatly improved.
A recovery team landing on White Island to search for the two deceased who remained unaccounted for was not able to find the bodies while the death toll of the volcanic eruption increased to 15, the New Zealand Police said on Sunday.
For Qimarhan, a 71-year-old woman living in the city of Hami in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, this winter comes without toil.
U.S. businesses and farmers have welcomed the phase-one economic and trade deal announced by the United States and China.
Despite the scale of the win -- which could mean Johnson in power for a decade -- warnings continued Saturday that Johnson faces many challenges in the weeks, months and years ahead.
Today, more than 50,000 rural Party members in Xiangxi are closely connected with the masses, setting up more than 25,000 mutual support teams and incorporating more than 130,000 rural households.
A water diversion project has been launched to take water from the Xijiang river, a tributary of the Pearl River, to Macao. "Diverting water from the Xijiang river to Macao never came easy."
Iran's Foreign Ministry announced on Saturday that Iran is ready for exchange of prisoners with the United States.
The cooperation between China and CEEC is also conducive to the interconnectivity in the region so as to push forward the integration of Europe, said Qi Zhenhong, president of the China Institute of International Studies.
China's Yutu-2 rover broke the record for working for the longest time on the Moon, which was previously set by the Soviet Union's Lunokhod-1.
China and the United States' "phase one" trade agreement is good news for all and will "provide stability in global trade", Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Saturday when holding a joint press conference with his Slovenian counterpart Miro Cerar.
