There are a lot of lessons to be learned from television. Apart from the usual news and documentaries, there is a new genre of entertainment that gives new meaning to the journalistic principles of "inform, educate and entertain".
Item from July 22, 1991, in China Daily: Goods trains started to run between China and the Soviet Union on Saturday, in a trial operation for the second Eurasian continental railway bridge ... The railway will cut the travel time from the Western Pacific to Europe by 70 percent compared with the trans-Siberian railway line. Transportation costs will be cut by a third.
About one-fifth of respondents in a recent China Youth Daily survey said online rumors about the stock market had influenced their investment decisions.
The Chinese navy announced 10 days of military training in the waters near eastern Hainan Island in the South China Sea starting on Wednesday, amid heightened tensions in the region.
President Xi Jinping called for more economic cooperation between China and New Zealand as he met with Jerry Mateparae, the country's governor-general, on Tuesday in Beijing.
The UN special envoy for Syria called on all nations to face the Islamic State group in a "united, international way" to keep more people from joining the extremist militants.
President Xi Jinping and US President Barack Obama highlighted their nations' cooperation in resolving the Iran nuclear issue during a telephone conversation on Tuesday.
The Cuban flag was raised at the US State Department on Monday in a historic gesture to mark renewed diplomatic ties between Havana and Washington as embassies were re-established in their respective capitals.
China's equity markets continued to recoup their losses on Monday, raising concerns that the national rescue funds may exit their positions now that the market has stabilized, once again putting pressure on stocks.
Scientists in Shanghai may have discovered a way to turn cocaine addiction on and off through a switchlike protein.