President Xi Jinping awards medals and certificates to the recipients of the Order of August 1 - the latest and highest military decoration - at the Bayi Building in Beijing on Friday.Li Gang / Xinhua
President Xi Jinping promoted five people to general in the People's Liberation Army on Friday and awarded 10 people the Order of August 1 - the latest and highest military decoration - for their outstanding contributions to national defense and military modernization.
A man who killed 19 people, including his parents and a 3-year-old, was sentenced to death on Friday, according to a local court in Yunnan province.
Probably no other world leader has spent as much time in and given as much attention to engaging China as Czech President Milos Zeman. On July 19, Zeman invited about 1,500 businesspeople, experts and officials from the Czech Republic and China to Prague Castle for a wrap-up dinner at the conclusion of the China Investment Forum.
China cannot be blamed for the United States' deficit in bilateral trade as complicated US trade structures are the real reason, Chinese officials said on Friday.
MOSCOW - Russia told the United States on Friday that some of its diplomats must leave the country in just over a month and said it was seizing some US diplomatic property as retaliation for proposed new US sanctions it described as illegal.
In an industry where acquisitions and mergers are happening more frequently than ever, with the approach being adopted by some of the biggest players, Langham Hospitality Group, with a history dating back to 1865, believes in the power of being small.
BUDAPEST - Fu Yuanhui suffered a "heartbreaking" defeat to Brazil's Etiene Medeiros in the women's 50m backstroke at the World Aquatics Championships on Thursday as one hundredth of a second cost her gold.
It was the longest day of the year, and the sun would finally disappear below the horizon only after 9.30 pm.
On June 19, China's most acclaimed ballet dancer Tan Yuanyuan completed the last of many tasks her eponymous ballet studio had set out to do when she launched a book titled Zujian Shangde Yishu (The Art on the Toe: An Introduction to Nine Leading Ballet Companies in the World) at Hotel Equatorial in Shanghai.
Chinese travel information website Qyer recently unveiled guidelines aimed at encouraging tourists to respect cultural differences and protect the environment when traveling.
When Song Yan was offered the opportunity to become the president of Beijing Fenglei Peking Opera Company in 2001, he was about to leave the company.
On the campus of the Foreign Trade University in Hanoi, a small group of youngsters were engrossed in discussion with a laptop screen in front of them showing a paused scene of the Chinese variety show Running Man.
For a great way to celebrate a bright summer day with friends and family you could hardly do better than going to the countryside where China's breathtaking beauty is on full display.
Tony Benn, who was a cabinet minister in the British Labour government in the 1960s and 70s, said, "It's the same each time with progress. First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you."
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