(SHI YU / CHINA DAILY) Nearly 60 years have elapsed since Martin Luther King Jr. made the iconic and one of the most powerful speeches in the history of civil liberties and human rights movements. "I have a dream…" is a touching speech, a powerful protest against racial discrimination, yet his grandchildren are still judged […]
China’s population fell by 850,000 people in 2022, the first such contraction in six decades, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics. The national birth rate fell to 6.77 births per 1,000 people against a death rate of 7.37 per 1,000 people. Meanwhile, China’s aging crisis is deepening, with 280.04 million people […]
Security personnel and rescue workers prepare to search for the blast victims in the debris of a damaged mosque inside the police headquarters in Peshawar on Jan 30, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) UNITED NATIONS – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned Monday's suicide bombing at a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, that left dozens of people […]
For the first time since Hong Kong’s return to the motherland, a native of Guangdong, Zheng Yanxiong, was appointed to head up the central government’s liaison office in Hong Kong. Zheng’s previous incarnation as director of the Office for Safeguarding National Security of the Central People’s Government in Hong Kong led many to surmise that […]
Security officials inspect the site of a mosque blast inside the police headquarters in Peshawar on Jan 30, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) PESHAWAR, Pakistan – A suicide bombing at a crowded mosque in Pakistan's Peshawar killed at least 32 people on Monday, the latest attack targeting police in this northwestern city where Islamist militants remain […]
In this file photo dated June 13, 2020, an Aboriginal flag is held aloft during a Black Lives Matter protest to express solidarity with US protesters and demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody, in Perth. An Australian group on Jan 30, 2023 launched a campaign against a referendum to create a consultative committee […]
Indigenous children wearing T-shirt designs with the image of the Aboriginal flag take part in a dancing ceremony during the annual "Invasion Day" protest march through the streets of Sydney on Australia Day on Jan 26, 2023. (ROBERT WAALCE / AFP) SYDNEY – Thousands of Australians marked the country's national day celebrations on Thursday with […]
Rescue teams search for survivors on the debris of a residential building that collapsed in Lucknow, India, on Jan 24, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) LUCKNOW, India – Rescue workers pulled 12 people, including two children, out of the rubble after a residential apartment block collapsed in the northern Indian city of Lucknow, but more were […]
This file photo shows people gather at Marina beach on the occasion of the Hindu harvest festival of 'Pongal' in Chennai on Jan 17, 2023. (ARUN SANKAR / AFP) NEW DELHI – Four people were killed and at least six others injured after a crane crashed during a temple festival in the southern Indian state […]
A woman walks down at a path during a cold winter day in Fayzabad of Badakhshan province on Jan18, 2023. (OMER ABRAR / AFP) KABUL – At least 78 people have died of cold in Afghanistan during the country's worst winter in more than a decade, authorities said on Thursday. Deaths from the cold have […]
Blacks continue to suffer disproportionately under nation’s criminal justice system Demonstrators are arrested during a protest against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, the United States, May 31, 2020. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Nearly 60 years have elapsed since the late Martin Luther King Jr made his touching “I have a dream” speech to protest […]
Editor's note: China's adjustment and optimization of epidemic prevention measures provide favorable conditions for the recovery of the international air transport market and tourism, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily. Passengers are seen in Shenzhen North railway station in Shenzhen, South China's Guangdong province, Jan 7, 2023. (PHOTO / XINHUA) Despite the concerns of some […]
Hong Kong people are mourning the death of Joseph Koo Ka-fai, the legendary composer who sweetened our musical lives during the past half-century with more than 1,200 Cantopop compositions. He died early this month in Vancouver, Canada, at the age of 92. We are also proud of the song Below the Lion Rock that gives […]
Displaced people stand on flooded highway, following rains and floods during the monsoon season in Sehwan, Pakistan, Sept 16, 2022. (AKHTAR SOOMRO / REUTERS) GENEVA – UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday called for massive support to help Pakistan with a $16 billion rebuilding effort following devastating floods, saying the country had been the victim […]
A view of flooding in Fitzroy Crossing, Australia Jan 3, 2023 in this picture obtained from social media. (CALLUM LAMOND / REUTERS) SYDNEY — Military helicopters airlifted hundreds of people from communities cut off by "once in a century" floods in Australia's northwest, an official leading relief efforts said on Sunday, noting water covered some […]
This handout photo taken on February 7, 2021 and released by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) shows members of the ITBP during a rescue operation after a broken glacier caused a major river to surge and overflow, sweeping away bridges and roads, at Reni village in Chamoli district of Uttarakhand. (INDO-TIBETAN BORDER POLICE / AFP) […]
People gather near a makeshift clinic at a settlement housing those displaced by war and drought, near Herat, Afghanistan, Dec 12, 2021. (MSTYSLAV CHEROV / AP) LONDON – The Taliban administration has criticized Prince Harry after the British royal said in his memoir that he had killed 25 people in Afghanistan when serving as a […]
Chinese tourists visit and take photos at Wat Pho Temple in Bangkok, Thailand on Jan 29, 2017. (PHOTO / XINHUA) SINGAPORE – Southeast Asia's tourist economies are set to be leading beneficiaries of China's scrapping of travel bans as they have steered clear of the COVID-19 tests. Even as the virus tears through its 1.4 […]
Chinese tourists visit and take photos at Wat Pho Temple in Bangkok, Thailand on Jan 29, 2017. (PHOTO / XINHUA) SINGAPORE – Southeast Asia's tourist economies are set to be leading beneficiaries of China's scrapping of travel bans as they have steered clear of the COVID-19 tests. Even as the virus tears through its 1.4 […]
Editor's note: Food loss and waste is a huge problem that should be minimized. It is important that people should take actions to promote their awareness against food waste and form healthy consumption behavior, writes a veteran journalist with China Daily. "Eating simple food and in moderate quantity" has become a popular mantra for many […]
The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government released its first Youth Development Blueprint on Dec 20, aimed at winning the hearts and minds of creative — and also defiant — millennials through being supportive rather than didactic, and also at prospering the dissatisfied Gen Z in the city. The blueprint proposes over 160 initiatives and […]
People walk in front of an entrance of Insein prison in Yangon on Oct 6, 2022. (STR / AFP) YANGON – Myanmar's State Administration Council (SAC)'s Chairman Senior General Min Aung Hlaing on Wednesday granted amnesty to 7,012 prisoners to mark the country's 75th Anniversary of Independence Day. The Southeast Asian country pardoned over 59,000 […]
SYDNEY – Two helicopters collided in mid-air near a popular tourist attraction in Australia's Gold Coast region on Monday, killing four people and critically injuring three more, authorities said. Emergency services were called to the scene near the Sea World theme park at about 2 pm local time, Gary Worrell, acting inspector at the Queensland […]
(JIN DING / CHINA DAILY) The history of medicine is the history of human beings — to be precise, human beings' fight against diseases, including epidemics such as the plague. In the thousands of years of human history, people around the world have suffered many epidemics, which have claimed millions of lives. Chinese history also […]
An Aboriginal flag is held aloft during a Black Lives Matter protest to express solidarity with US protesters and demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody, in Perth on June 13, 2020. (TREVOR COLLENS / AFP) CANBERRA — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised a referendum on establishing an Indigenous voice to Parliament […]
An Aboriginal flag is held aloft during a Black Lives Matter protest to express solidarity with US protesters and demand an end to Aboriginal deaths in custody, in Perth on June 13, 2020. (TREVOR COLLENS / AFP) CANBERRA — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has promised a referendum on establishing an Indigenous voice to Parliament […]
China’s changes in COVID controls come at an appropriate moment amid the long fight An elderly resident receives a shot of COVID-19 vaccine at home during a medical service for senior citizens in Dongcheng District of Beijing, May 10, 2022. (PHOTO / XINHUA) China’s National Health Commission issued optimized COVID-19 control regulations on Dec 7, […]
Once again, the spotlight has been shone on the status of British National (Overseas) passports. On Dec 6, Secretary for Security Chris Tang Ping-keung was asked by a legislator if Hong Kong’s Immigration Department would help those Hong Kong people holding BNO passports, should they encounter problems and reach out to the Department while overseas. […]
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (left) shakes hands with Indonesia's President Joko Widodo as he arrives for the G20 leaders' summit in Nusa Dua, on the Indonesian resort island of Bali on Nov 15, 2022. (KEVIN LAMARQUE / POOL / AFP) JAKARTA – Indonesia's parliament passed into law a bilateral extradition agreement with Singapore […]
People walk on a street in Guangzhou's Haizhu district, Dec 1, 2022. (PHOTO / VCG) Prompting sighs of relief from residents, who have long endured frequent testing and the anxious wait for a green health code, the adjustment of the COVID-19 pandemic prevention and control measures in the country earlier this month was regarded as […]