China is developing a new type of recoverable satellite that is reusable and intends to use it for commercial purposes, according to China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp, a State-owned space giant in charge of the program.
Education plays key role in protecting juveniles
The Ministry of Education will strengthen oversight of foreign teachers at after-school training institutions after several foreign instructors were detained for alleged drug use earlier this month in Xuzhou, Jiangsu province, a senior official said.
While teaching children - girls in most cases - to better protect themselves against sexual assault, more efforts should be made by society to tell boys to respect and care for the opposite sex, according to experts.
More people worldwide have been going hungry in the past several years due to a slowing global economy despite China's achievements in poverty alleviation, according to a report released by the United Nations on Monday.
In wake of a violent protest late Sunday in the northern New Territories, Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor strongly condemned radical protesters on Monday, saying that the city will not tolerate any unlawful or violent acts.
The Foreign Ministry confirmed on Monday the detention of a Canadian citizen accused of involvement in a drug-related case in Yantai, a coastal city in Shandong province.
Jin Liqun, president of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, said he wants AIIB to become the bank that connects Asia to the world as it marked a total of 100 approved memberships during the past weekend.
Sugar consumption rises along with living standards
The scientific communities of China and the United States still have room for exchanges and cooperation despite ongoing trade and technology disputes between the two countries, a senior science policy researcher said.
China's Tiangong II space lab will spend its last days in orbit this week before making a controlled fall on Friday back into Earth's atmosphere, according to the China Manned Space Agency.
The couple suspected in the disappearance of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found over the weekend were longtime swindlers and transients who had run out of money and decided they no longer wanted to live, according to Zhejiang provincial police, who issued a statement late on Sunday.