A five-episode documentary series entitled Bubu in Africa, which was made by a Chinese woman and aired recently on a TV station in Harbin, Heilongjiang province, has revealed the everyday lives of many ordinary Chinese people on the world's second-largest continent.
Coralie Debras, a resident of Shanghai for the past 13 years, said she is relieved to have not found any pregnant cats in her community during this year's mating season.
A group of senior citizens in Wuhan, Hubei province, have banded together to offer up their bodies for organ donation and medical research upon death.
As China strives to protect its ecological integrity, the financial sector is coming to the aid to contain pollution and help advance the industrial transformation.
Central ministries and departments responded to a series of public concerns in the past week, including retraction of Chinese-authored papers by an international medical journal, education and environmental protection.
June 1 marked the ninth anniversary of the national ban on plastic carrier bags. The national regulation that came into effect on June 1, 2008, forbids all supermarkets and shops from providing plastic bags for free to customers.
Relations between China and the Republic of Korea suffered after Park Geun-hye, the impeached and ousted ROK president, allowed the United States to deploy its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense anti-missile system on ROK soil while ignoring Beijing's repeated protests. The decision not only undermined China-ROK ties but also hurt bilateral exchanges - data show the number of Chinese tourists visiting Jeju island this year has dropped by 90 percent compared with 2016.
The media in the United Kingdom looked to horror movies for inspiration to describe British Prime Minister Theresa May's shock setback in the June 8 election, but by mid-week they had recycled the theme to suggest she might yet rise from the grave in which many thought she had been prematurely buried.
Compared with the recently concluded annual college entrance examinations, or gaokao, which was taken by 9.4 million students, a contest concurrently held in Shanghai and Suzhou, East China's Jiangsu province, that brought together youths from across the world for a skills' competition invited much less attention.
The on-and-off courtships, witty banter and ribald puns exchanged between a couple in the rom-com Love off the Cuff is currently tickling viewers' fancies across the border.
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