Children play in a camp for internally displaced people in Kabul, Afghanistan on Sept 13, 2021. (FELIPE DANA / AP) DUBAI – Millions of Afghans, including children, could die of starvation unless urgent action is taken to pull Afghanistan back from the brink of collapse, a senior United Nations official warned, calling for frozen funds to […]
This photograph provided by India's National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) shows NDRF personnel rescuing civilians stranded following heavy rains at Chhara village near Nainital, Uttarakhand on Oct 20, 2021. At least 43 people have died and another 30 are missing after three days of heavy rainfall triggered landslides and flash floods in Nepal, police said on Wednesday. […]
On Sunday, the world marked the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty as bold new statistics exposed nations that failed miserably in raising the living standards of their populations. China rose to the top of the ladder in alleviating poverty while Hong Kong, treated separately from the Chinese mainland, scored 20.4 percent living below […]
Sofia cradles her 2-month-old baby, Abdul, as he undergoes treatment at the malnutrition ward of the Indira Gandhi Children's Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, Oct 5, 2021. Health workers in the hospital dashed back and forth caring for gasping premature newborns and others suffering from severe malnutrition and other diseases. (FELIPE DANA / AP) The US […]
A health worker prepares a dose of Sinovac's COVID-19 vaccine during a vaccination drive at the Baiturrahman grand mosque in Banda Aceh on Sept 7, 2021. (CHAIDEER MAHYUDDIN / AFP) MELBOURNE / JERUSALEM / PHNOM PENH / JAKARTA – Indonesia added 19 fatalities in the 24 hours through midday Sunday, the fewest since May 25, […]
The United States's announcement that it would ease air travel restrictions came as a surprise to the world after a long wait. The White House announced that the country will reopen in early November this year to air passengers from 33 countries and regions, including China, India, Brazil and most of Europe, who are fully […]
Rescuers search for victims in a house buried by a landslide caused by tropical storm Kompasu in Baguio city, northern Philippines on Oct 12, 2021. (AP) MANILA – Nine people have been killed in the Philippines and 11 were missing on Tuesday due to floods and landslides caused by heavy rain from tropical cyclone Kompasu, […]
This picture taken on October 10, 2021 and released by the DPRK's official Korean Central News Agency on Oct 11 shows DPRK top leader Kim Jong-un giving a speech to mark the 76th anniversary of the Workers' Party of Korea in Pyongyang. (STR / KCNA VIA KNS / AFP) SEOUL – Democratic People’s Republic of […]
President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, delivers an important speech at a commemorative meeting marking the 110th anniversary of the Revolution of 1911 at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Oct 9, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) In a […]
A commemorative meeting marking the 110th anniversary of the Revolution of 1911 is held at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Oct 9, 2021. (PHOTO / XINHUA) In his speech to mark the 110th anniversary of the Revolution of 1911, President Xi Jinping summarized the historical experiences from the past century. To achieve […]
Editor's Note: This year marks the 110th anniversary of the Revolution of 1911. The revolution put an end to the country's monarchy of several thousand years and heralded great social changes. How is the Communist Party of China carrying forward the spirit of the revolution? Three experts share their views with China Daily: (MA XUEJING […]
People wait to receive COVID-19 vaccines in Klang, Selongor, Malaysia, Sept 12, 2021. (CHONG VOON CHUNG / XINHUA) MELBOURNE / JERUSALEM / WELLINGTON – Malaysia reached its target of fully vaccinating 90 percent of the adult population, a milestone that allows the government to end a months-long ban on interstate travel. Fully inoculated people will […]
People view the damage inside of a mosque following a bombing in Kunduz province, northern Afghanistan, Oct 8, 2021. (ABDULLAH SAHIL / AP) KABUL – A suicide bomber attacked a mosque in Afghanistan's northeastern Kunduz province on Friday, killing 46 people and wounding more than 140, the state-run Bakhtar news agency reported. Earlier, a UN […]
After the British people voted to leave the European Union in 2016, little thought was given to the resulting labor shortages. The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the single market meant the free movement of workers would end, and alternatives would be required. However, despite endless wrangling in Parliament over whether to honor the popular vote, […]
As people across the Chinese mainland celebrated in jubilation the 72nd anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong people were no less exuberant in celebrating the great day in activities organized by community groups across the city on Friday. There is a lot to celebrate on this year’s National Day, […]
Nixie Lam says the CPC has a tradition of paying attention to field investigation and research For two years in a row, Luo Huining, director of the Liaison Office of the Central People’s Government in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, has visited underprivileged residents in the city on National Day. Ever since Luo took […]
In all advanced societies, there are two political arenas: the elite political arena and the popular political arena. In the elite arena, the players are primarily the elites, featuring elite rivalries and competition, whereas in the popular arena, both the elites and the common people can participate, with public opinion and mass actions carrying much […]
Elderly women wearing face masks attend a dance class re-opened for the first time since the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic at Seodaemun Senior Welfare Centre in Seoul on July 1, 2021. (JUNG YEON-JE / AFP) KUWAIT CITY / TEHRAN – South Korea will start offering booster shots to “high-risk groups,” including people over 60 and medical […]
The United Kingdom’s population is shrinking, and the alarm bells have been ringing for some time. Whereas the Office for National Statistics says it stood at 67.1 million in 2020, the Economic Statistics Center of Excellence reported in March that 1.3 million people left the UK between 2019 and 2020. Even if the departure figure […]
An Afghan refugee looks at her 16-day-old baby at the old Vathy camp, waiting to be transferred to the new Samos RIC, the first of five new 'closed' migrant camps, on the island of Samos, Greece on Sept 20, 2021. (LOUISA GOULIAMAKI / AFP) UN humanitarians said on Monday that 635,000 people in Afghanistan were […]