SOUTH AFRICA Students sing and dance to mark Nelson Mandela Day at the square named for the deceased leader in Johannesburg on July 18 UNITED KINGDOM New Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses outside 1
Students sing and dance to mark Nelson Mandela Day at the square named for the deceased leader in Johannesburg on July 18
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New Prime Minister Boris Johnson poses outside 10 Downing Street after his speech in London on July 24
SINGAPORE
Some 11 tons of pangolin scales and 8 tons of elephant tusks were seized from a container from the Democratic Republic of the Congo going to Viet Nam via Singapore on July 23. It was the largest seizure ever of elephant tusks in the country
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Gita Gopinath (center), International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief economist, and Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti (left), IMF deputy director for research, attend a press conference in Santiago on July 23 to present the IMF’s World Economic Outlook July 2019 update, which lowered the global growth forecast to 3.2 percent for the year
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The rocket GSLV-Mk-III carrying lunar exploration mission Chandrayaan-2 lifts off successfully from the Satish Dhawan Space Center in Sriharikota on July 22
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Journalists gather around the Kyoto Animation studio building after an alleged arson attack in Kyoto on July 19. At least 34 people were reportedly killed and more than 30 injured
A smart robot makes nonalcoholic drinks for employees at Changyang Campus, an innovation zone in Yangpu District, Shanghai in east China, on June 21, 2019 With the novel coronavirus pandemic casting
Three drones circled the Jinan Yellow River Bridge on June 23 in Jinan, capital of Shandong Province, inspecting the segment of the Beijing-Shanghai HighSpeed Railway (BSHSR) passing through the city.
Before he left China for the United States for a meeting in February, Sebastian Schmidt, CFO of WindMW, a joint-venture company that owns one of Germany’s largest offshore windfarms, recorded a song t
More than a month of intense prevention and control measures have borne fruit in China: Both new confirmed and suspected cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) are dropping, so is the fatal
U.S. President Donald Trump’s maiden visit to India on the last leg of his presidency has been a momentous event for both sides. This showcasing of his popularity in a country with the second largest
XIE ZHENYE WINS MEN’S 200 M Sprinter Xie Zhenye clocked a 20.72-second win in the men’s 200-meter race at the 2020 Chinese National Athletics Championships on September 17, adding to his 100-meter ti
While China is progressing in its battle against the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), China and the Chinese people are being stigmatized in some parts of the world. Some Chinese and Asians are be
Olivier Guyonvarch, Consul General of France in Wuhan, Hubei Province in central China, was on vacation back in France when the city was put under lockdown due to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) ou
NEW MFA SPOKESPERSON On February 24, Zhao Lijian, Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Information Department, debuted as the 31st MFA spokesperson and hosted the daily press co