The wide-ranging impact of Australia's new social media ban for children under 16 — the first of its kind in the world — is already being felt at home and abroad, especially for major platforms that have controversially allowed children full access.
Airbus on Wednesday delivered its 800th A320 Family aircraft assembled in China, underscoring the European planemaker's long-term manufacturing presence in the country.

The Tibetan film Puruo Gangri premiered nationwide on Wednesday, depicting the spirit of perseverance and dedication of the remote Tsonyi county of the Xizang autonomous region.
A discovery at the Zhengjiagou archaeology site in Hebei province is offering new insights into the expansion and influence of one of China's most important Neolithic civilizations, dating from 6,500 to 5,000 years ago.
Twenty-seven individuals were sentenced in Shenzhen for their involvement in six antimony ingot smuggling cases on Tuesday, according to the Shenzhen Intermediate People's Court in South China's Guangdong province.

Cui Baohua, a former senior political advisor of Sichuan province, has been sentenced to 14 years in prison and fined 5 million yuan ($710,000) for accepting bribes, CCTV News reported on Wednesday.
Two Chinese patients with high-level paralysis have successfully used brain-machine interface technology to perform tasks using only their thoughts, including controlling a power wheelchair, directing a robotic dog to retrieve deliveries, and operating a robotic arm to grasp a cup and drink water.

The Anti-Smuggling Bureau of Guangzhou Customs mobilized 265 police officers and successfully dismantled two criminal gangs engaged in smuggling blood samples from pregnant women overseas, with over 100,000 such samples involved.

Authorities have held 25 people accountable following an investigation into a fatal fire at a school in central China's Henan Province that killed 13 people, according to an official report released Wednesday.
Commenting on Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's erroneous remarks on Taiwan, Russian scholar Vladimir Nelidov said the trend towards the militarization of Japan has been going on for a long time.

A Japanese woman's social media account of the help she received after a traffic accident in Beijing has drawn millions of views, resonating widely online and sparking discussion about everyday goodwill between people of different countries.

The Chinese Embassy in Cambodia on Wednesday urged Chinese nationals near the Cambodia–Thailand border to move to safer areas, citing ongoing tensions, and advised those elsewhere in the country to avoid travel to the border region for now.

Crowds gathered Tuesday at Tokyo's Ueno Zoological Gardens to see giant panda twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei ahead of their planned return to China in late January.
Expanding domestic demand will be the top priority of China's economic policy in 2026, according to an official from the Office of the Central Committee for Financial and Economic Affairs.
In the first 11 months of this year, the Chinese capital of Beijing recorded its lowest average concentration of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) since monitoring began, the municipal environmental authorities reported on Tuesday. The Lianhuachi Park, Beijing, China, September 7, 2025.
Public support for closer ties between Europe and China has risen sharply, while calls are growing for a tougher European stance toward the United States and U.S.At the same time, a significant share of respondents believe Europe should adopt a firmer position toward the U.S., especially in defending its strategic and technological interests. European Robotics Forum opens in Stuttgart, Germany, March 24, 2025.
He added that major countries should also support Middle Eastern countries in resolving longstanding conflicts and enhancing unity and cooperation to foster long-term stability.
In early 2024, Swedish payments company Klarna rolled out an OpenAI-powered customer service agent that it said could do the work of 700 full-time customer service agents.
Zhu Fenglian, spokesperson for the State Council Taiwan Affairs Office, during a regular press conference in Beijing, China, December 17, 2025.She emphasized that attempting to achieve "independence" through external forces and military means poses a threat to the security and interests of the residents in Taiwan region.

Authorities in eastern China's Jiangxi Province have launched an investigation after workers at a new energy battery manufacturer were found to have abnormally high levels of lead in their blood, local officials said Tuesday.

The recent statements made by the Japanese side show that Japan is still reluctant to do the right thing and is deliberately creating trouble on issues of critical importance in an attempt to mislead the public and hope that somehow the issue would resolve itself. China firmly opposes it, said Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Guo Jiakun at a regular press conference on Wednesday.

Xu Feibiao, researcher and director of the Center for BRICS & G20 Studies of China, Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICIR), pointed out that the 15th Five-Year Plan recommendations outline a clear direction for China’s sci-tech development and underscore the country’s commitment to open cooperation and mutual benefit.

The world's largest-diameter shield machine for constructing high-speed railway tunnels, independently developed by China, marks its 10,000-meter tunneling milestone under the Yangtze River on Tuesday. With only 1,000 meters remaining to the southern bank of the Yangtze, the boring operation is expected to conclude in late 2026.

A spokesperson said the association has been intentionally confusing Lai's criminal behavior with freedom of the press.

The Hainan Free Trade Port will begin islandwide special customs operations on Thursday, the Hainan provincial government said, a milestone in efforts to position the island province as China's gateway to the world.

A Ming dynasty imperial edict conferring investiture on a Ryukyu king has gone on public display at the Lüshun Museum in Dalian, Liaoning province, providing rare physical evidence of historical ties between China and the Ryukyu Islands.

China has approved market access for its first batch of Level 3 autonomous driving passenger vehicles, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Monday, a milestone in the commercial rollout of conditionally automated driving technology.

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese visited Ahmed Al-Ahmed at a hospital in Sydney, who risked his life to disarm one of the alleged Bondi attackers and save multiple lives in Sydney on Sunday evening.
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