Steady development helped poverty reduction

Editor's note: Some senior officials and scholars delivered speeches on China's contribution to global poverty reduction at the two-day International Forum on Reform and Opening-Up and Poverty Reduction in China that concluded in Beijing on Friday.

Disquiet over US sanctions

The decision by the United States to reimpose further sanctions on Iran has triggered widespread defiance and worries worldwide.

As vote race tightens, Trump defends focus on immigration

WASHINGTON - The midterm elections to be held on Tuesday are the first major electoral battle since US President Donald Trump clinched the White House. Now, after two years, Democrats are eager to get back in the ring and slug it out with the GOP.

World leaders to descend for WWI remembrance

PARIS - France kicks off a week of World War I commemorations from Sunday, with about 80 leaders from around the globe preparing to fly in for a ceremony marking a century since the guns fell silent.

Rare duck making a splash in Central Park

A duck is generating curiosity and speculation since its appearance recently in New York's Central Park. It's even gained the nickname as "New York's most eligible bachelor".

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Master of his universe

After signing an international recording agreement with Universal Music Group in April, Chinese-Canadian singer-songwriter Kris Wu is hoping to define himself as one of the top stars of his age with the debut full-lengthy album Antares.

Power and sensitivity that's on the button

Wu Qiong can still recall that when she was a child, her grandfather used to draw a big musical note in red chalk on a blackboard. That was how she started learning music.

MOVES AND NUMBERS

Folk singer-songwriter Xiao He was invited by a friend to watch a contemporary dance performance by Tao Dance Theater in Beijing in 2009.

Hamlet returns in new version

Of all the works of William Shakespeare that have graced the theaters in China, Hamlet is arguably the most famous among Chinese audiences. It has also been adapted many times in the country.

A new place for relics related to historical law

The State Administration of Cultural Heritage gave six bronze vessels to the China Court Museum's permanent collection on Tuesday.

MORE THAN A STORE

The opening of Jenny Lou's Green on Oct 28 marks a milestone for the company that has grown from a small produce stand to a 10-branch foreign-food supermarket brand known to nearly all foreigners and a growing number of Chinese in Beijing.