The new omicron variant took only a few weeks to live up to dire predictions about how hugely contagious it is but scientists don’t yet know if it
It is less than two months before Spring Festival ushers in the Year of the Tiger. For many who work in places away from their loved ones, to
In their virtual meeting in June, President Xi Jinping and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin agreed to extend the China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation that was
Three 9-year-old girls are huddled around a Caesar wheel, an ancient tool for sharing secret messages. Cracking a code is one of many challenges the
With 51 locally transmitted novel coronavirus infections reported on Monday, among which 44 were in Zhejiang province, there is no doubt that the country is still in the
Thanks to effective zero-cases policy the country has been adopting, the latest round of COVID-19 resurgence in some provinces has barely affected normal economic activities and social life
Whether to choose to live with the novel coronavirus or to prevent it from infecting people by completely cutting the channels of its transmission? On this, China’s practice
“We stopped doing heads.” It was the second time I’d heard a medical examiner say this while I was studying how the roles of medical examiners and
The Beijing Winter Olympics open in just under two months and are now the target of a diplomatic boycott by the United States, with others likely to follow.
The prison sentence given to ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday on charges of incitement and failing to observe pandemic restrictions is one small shot in
In his speech at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London on Tuesday, Richard Moore, head of the United Kingdom’s Secret Intelligence Service, made it clear that
By claiming that “A Taiwan emergency is a Japanese emergency, and therefore an emergency for the Japan-US alliance,” former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe has openly revealed his outdated mindset
On December 9-10, the US will convene the so-called “Leaders’ Summit for Democracy” online. The list of invitees released by the US Department of State includes a total of 110 countries and
The US military announced on Monday that it is planning to reinforce deployments and bases directed at China and Russia as a result of the “global posture review” commissioned early
When Pope Francis visited the Greek island of Lesbos in 2016, he was so moved by the stories he heard from families fleeing war in Iraq and Syria that he
The Eighth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation will be held in Dakar, Senegal, on Monday and Tuesday. The conference, whose theme is “Deepen China-Africa partnership and Promote Sustainable
The US Department of State released on Tuesday evening the list of 110 “participants” to the “Summit for Democracy.” What caught the immediate attention of worldwide media were, first, the island
Fall 2021 has been filled with a steady stream of media coverage arguing that Meta’s Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram social media platforms pose a threat to users’ mental health and
US President Joe Biden announced on Tuesday that the United States will release 50 million barrels of oil from its Strategic Petroleum Reserve from next month to curb the fast
It’s that time of year when retailers seem to join forces to plant a message in shoppers’ minds: “Buy Stuff on Black Friday, or You Are a Fool.” They transmit this
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