SEOUL - The woman appointed to try to reverse the world's lowest birthrate knows better than most why billion-dollar campaigns to encourage South Korea's female populace to procreate have failed - she is among the millions who have chosen to remain childless in the face of traditional social expectations.
TOKYO - Japan criticized the US military on Friday for breaking a pledge to avoid flying helicopters over a school next to its base in Okinawa, a rare flash of discord with Tokyo's main ally.
Finland welcomed its first pair of giant pandas this week, making it the eighth country in Europe to forge a tie with China in the realm of panda conservation and research.
MIAMI - A new blood test for cancer has shown promise in detecting eight kinds of tumors before they have spread elsewhere in the body, offering hope of early detection, researchers said on Thursday.
This is what you call barking up the right tree.
BAGHDAD - When Iraqi forces drove Islamic State militants out of eastern Mosul a year ago, Nashwan Shakir Mahmoud raced back to his home, hoping that his red and white 1955 Chevrolet coupe had survived three years of war and upheaval.
TARUKA, Nepal - The bulls have easy lives for most of the year. They don't pull plows or wagons. They are fed eggs, rice, corn and buttermilk.
CHEYENNE, Wyoming - How does a bighorn sheep say "cheese?"
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Sitting behind a computer in a classroom and communicating in English with her tutor thousands of miles away in Canada, Anahita whispered with pride that she receives online education from teachers in the United States and Canada every day.
Tourists returned to Europe in their droves in 2017 after concerns about terrorism kept them away the previous year, but the United States became less popular during the same period, possibly as a result of President Donald Trump's behavior.
California senators Scott Wiener and Richard Pan have introduced a new bill to officially recognize the Lunar New Year and encourage awareness of the day's cultural significance to people of Asian descent in the state.
MOSCOW - People living in some of the coldest places on earth are hunkering down as temperatures fall to near-record lows that are even defeating thermometers.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright 1995 - . All rights reserved. The content (including but not limited to text, photo, multimedia information, etc) published in this site belongs to China Daily Information Co (CDIC). Without written authorization from CDIC, such content shall not be republished or used in any form. Note: Browsers with 1024*768 or higher resolution are suggested for this site.
License for publishing multimedia online 0108263 Registration Number: 20100000002731 
Raymond Zhou
Op Rana
Berlin Fang
Zhu Yuan
Huang Xiangyang
Chen Weihua
