Special expert to be assigned, factories to be moved away from residential areas

The deaths of 27 firefighters and three local residents who were engulfed by a burst of explosive fire on Monday in Southwest China's Sichuan province have touched people's hearts.

LISBON - At least 28 people, most of them German, died in a tourist bus accident on the Portuguese island of Madeira on Wednesday, authorities said.

An inferno that destroyed the spire and a large portion of the wooden roof structure of the 12th-century Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris on Monday reinforced a cautionary message to Chinese authorities about the need to better protect vulnerable herita

Ke Jie, one of the world's best Go players, will compete against another artificial intelligence Go program, China's Golaxy, on April 27 in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian province, according to chinanews.com.

At the 28th National Book Expo beginning on Thursday, innovative technology for buying, reading and listening has been caught in the spotlight.

BEIJING - There have not been any bilateral talks over trade frictions between China and the United States, China's Ministry of Commerce said Thursday.

WASHINGTON - US President Donald Trump said here on Thursday that he wished to have a second meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.

When the hyperloop frenzy started in 2013, it was just tech magnate Elon Musk's wild idea about the next-generation of travel.

TOKYO - Residents in western Japan were cleaning up debris Monday evening after a powerful earthquake hit the area around Osaka, the country's second-largest city, killing four people and injuring hundreds while knocking over walls and setting off fi

NIZHNY NOVGOROD, Russia - Lionel Messi's frustrating international career may be coming to an early and anti-climactic finish after Argentina's worst loss in World Cup group play in 60 years.

China will "fight back firmly" with comprehensive "qualitative" and "quantitative" measures if the United States publishes an additional list of tariffs on more Chinese goods, the Ministry of Commerce said on Tuesday.

Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is China's unswerving goal, President Xi Jinping told his US counterpart Donald Trump during a phone conversation on Wednesday.

Schools, teachers to face probes in response to Beijing abuse case

A Chinese space telescope has found a strange peak in high-energy cosmic ray electrons and positrons, which are highly energetic particles blazing across the universe at close to the speed of light. Scientists say they think such an anomaly can help

Zhang Yang, a senior military officer, committed suicide on Thursday morning amid a graft probe, the Ministry of Defense said on Tuesday.

A driver careening against traffic in New York's Times Square on Thursday struck more than 20 pedestrians, fatally injuring a young woman before his car came to a stop on two wheels.

BEIJING - A keynote speech given by President Xi Jinping at the opening ceremony of the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation has been published by the People's Publishing House.

BEIJING -- China values relations with France and has confidence in bilateral ties, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Geng Shuang said Monday.