The Chinese embassy in Washington received a special, retrospective gift on Friday from a retired US Foreign Service officer.
The Islamic State group has said it was behind a string of suicide bombings near a Shiite shrine outside Syria's capital and in Homs that killed more than 150 people on Sunday, as Washington and Moscow worked to secure a cease-fire.
I keep reading that 2016 is going to be a pivotal year for "social robots". These are lifelike dummies known as androids that think and talk like a computer programmer's idea of a human.
Item from Feb 23, 1987, in China Daily: Street vendors, crammed into the Quzhuang Overpass area of Guangzhou in southern China, conduct their business after night falls.
Many parents worry about their children's use of e-books, such as the harmful effects on eyesight and over-reliance on modern technology.
Tourism industry on the march: China, the largest market for outbound tourism, has seen rapid growth in the number of overseas trips and consumption, according to the China National Tourism Administration and the National Bureau of Statistics.
China's to pleadership pledged on Monday to stabilize and improve macro policies to create an amicable environment for economic growth and ongoing structural reforms.
China is to open 19 duty-free shops for domestic consumers, a move aimed at catering to the increasingly sophisticated demand among these shoppers for overseas products.
An average of 12,000 new companies were registered every day in China last year as deepened reforms in the business sector boosted market vitality, a senior official said on Monday.
Every stage of China's development can be likened to a sporting event played by local governments.