• Protests spread

     Vehicles block the streets around the parliament building, or The Beehive, (center behind) in Wellington, New Zealand on February 9, 2022, on the second day of the demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions, inspired by a similar one in Canada. Photo: AFP  _________&···...

  • Self-treatment launched in South Korea for mild cases

    The rate of vaccination against COVID-19 is displayed in the form of a temperature tower at an intersection in Gwangjin-gu district, Seoul in South Korea on January 12. Photo: VCGSouth Korea launched a self-treatment scheme for patients with mild coronavirus symptoms in order ···...

  • US ropes in Quad allies to fight ‘two-front wars’ with China and Russia despite spent force

     Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison (center) addresses US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left), Australian Foreign Minister Marise Payne (2nd from left), Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (2nd from right) and Japan's Foreign Minister Yos···...

  • Singapore Airshow expects sharp fall in visitors

     People view the countdown to 2022 light projection show held at Singapore's Marina Bay on Dec. 28, 2021.(Photo: Xinhua)A sharp fall in trade visitors is expected at the Singapore Airshow this week compared to the last edition two years ago as COVID-19 continues to hit ···...

  • NZ protests continue despite Cyclone Dovi

    Vehicles block the streets around the parliament building, or The Beehive, (center behind) in Wellington, New Zealand on February 9, 2022, on the second day of the demonstration against COVID-19 restrictions, inspired by a similar one in Canada. Photo: AFPCyclone Dovi caused p···...

  • Fukushima water review begins

     Tanks at the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant store nuclear-contaminated wastewater. Photo: XinhuaAn International Atomic Energy Agency task force began a mission Monday in Japan to review the controversial planned release of treated water from the Fukushima nuclear ···...

  • Australia ruling party set for upset in state by-elections ahead of May vote

    File picture of Australia PM Scott Morrison. /XinhuaAustralian Prime Minister Scott Morrison's Liberal Party suffered a major upset in New South Wales state's by-elections, preliminary reports indicated on Sunday, presenting a challenge for his ruling coalition ahead of federa···...

  • Observing voting

    Visually impaired voters show their inked finger after casting their ballot at a polling station during the Uttarakhand state assembly elections in Haridwar, India on February 14, 2022. The elections will elect 70 members of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly. The votes will···...

  • S.Korea presidential candidates kick off ‘tightest’ race

    Lee Jae-myung (left), the presidential candidate of the ruling Democratic Party, and Yoon Suk-yeol, the presidential candidate of the main opposition People Power Party, take part in a meeting at a Seoul hotel, South Korea, December 28, 2021, to discuss a parliamentary bill ai···...

  • Environmental dilemma

    A windmill farm is pictured at Osian in Jodhpur district of India's Rajasthan state on October 6, 2021. Photo: AFPA conservationist wants India's government to bury renewable power lines to protect rare birds. Protesting villagers halt a wind energy project to save their local···...

  • 11 people killed in Philippine truck crash

    Photo shows a fishing community damaged by Typhoon Rai along a shoreline in Leyte Province, the Philippines, Dec. 22, 2021.The National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) reported that 156 people died from the typhoon, while the Philippine National Police ···...

  • Scene of the crime

    A police officer stands guard just outside the University of Tokyo on January 16, 2022, one of the venues for nationwide university entrance exams, a day after two high-school students and a man were wounded in a knife attack that led to the arrest of a teenager on suspicion o···...

  • ‘Three Evil Forces’ continue to lurk in shadows of riots, color revolutions in Central Asia: experts

    A homebound Ilyushin Il-76 strategic airlifter carrying Russian peacekeepers on board takes off from Almaty International Airport. Photo: VCGTerrorism, extremism, and separatism, known as the "Three Evil Forces" have long been an unstable factor in Central Asia. Traces of thes···...

  • Iran envoy slams EU inaction over sanctions

    Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei addresses a crowd via a video conference in the capital Tehran, Iran on January 9, 2022. Negotiating does not mean giving in to the enemy, he said as talks are taking place in Vienna between his country and world powers on the nucle···...

  • China willing to offer assistance to tsunami-hit Tonga

    Photo:CFP The tsunami triggered by a massive underwater volcanic eruption off Tonga rarely seen in 30 years has neither caused deaths or injuries of Chinese nationals nor brought disastrous effects to China's coast so far, but its impacts on the whole Pacific region are···...

  • Three dead in blast on Indian warship

    File Photo shows an Indian Naval ship (INS) Kolkata berths at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai, India. Photo: XinhuaThree Indian naval personnel were killed in an explosion on one of the country's oldest destroyers at a naval dockyard in Mumbai, authorities said. The blast occu···...

  • Indian politician, media hype boy’s ‘kidnap’ in Zangnan, slammed as ridiculous anti-China slur

    History justifies China's claim to Zangnan: FM Same old tricks were played by some Indian media and politicians once again as they hyped that Chinese border soldiers had "kidnapped" a 17-year-old boy in Zangnan, in the southern part of Southwest China's Xizang Autonomous R···...

  • Aid flight arrives in Tonga; phone lines partially restored

    Tongan Foreign Minister Fekitamoeloa 'Utoikamanu (right) is accompanied by Australian High Commissioner to Tonga Rachael Moore as they receive a Royal Australian Air Force C-17A Globemaster III aircraft delivering Australian aid at Fua?amotu International Airport on January 20···...

  • UN appeals to support Palestinian refugees

    Refugee school children attend an official ceremony to return to school at one of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) schools at a Palestinian refugee camp al Wehdat, in Amman, Jordan, on Sept. 2, 2018. (Xinhua/Mohammad Abu Ghosh) The Uni···...

  • S.Korea’s daily new COVID-19 count exceeds 13,000 for the first time

    The rate of vaccination against COVID-19 is displayed in the form of a temperature tower at an intersection in Gwangjin-gu district, Seoul in South Korea on January 12. Photo: VCG  South Korea's daily new coronavirus cases exceeded 13,000 for the first time on Wednesda···...

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