Mysteries lie in wait in Kenya's museum

NAIROBI, Kenya - The only hint that something extraordinary lay inside the plain wooden drawer in an unassuming office behind Nairobi National Museum was a handwritten note stuck to the front: "Pull Carefully".

JW Marriott debuts first Marquis hotel in China

Global hospitality group Marriott International unveiled a 39-floor building on the east bank of Shanghai's Huangpu River on Thursday as the first JW Marriott Marquis hotel in China.

Wanda, Didi team up to give hospitality chain's guests an easier ride

Guests of Wanda Hotels & Resorts will now find it easier to use Didi Chuxing, the mobile taxi-hailing and car service app, especially Didi Luxe and Didi Premier services.

Swimming pool makes a splash in the land of fire in Xinjiang

URUMQI - A giant open-air swimming pool at the foot of the Flaming Mountain has become a cool attraction in Turpan, known as China's land of fire in Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.

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China's upbeat trade performance proves US taking wrong approach

China's trade data for July came as a surprise for those that were predicting a continual weakening of the country's exports following the escalation of the China-US trade dispute.

Travel warnings display US hypocrisy

The United States issued an advisory on Wednesday warning US citizens traveling to the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region about their personal safety in view of the ongoing demonstrations, which have turned increasingly nasty.

Some in Australia stuck in the Cold War

In a highly inflammatory opinion piece in an Australian newspaper on Thursday, Andrew Hastie, the head of Australia's parliamentary intelligence and security committee, drew a comparison between China's rise and that of Nazi Germany.

Educated, single, looking for love, signs that the times are changing

A SURVEY OF THOSE BORN AFTER 1990 by dating network Qingchunyouyue and the sociology department of Shenzhen University found that most of them living in the first-tier cities were still single. Southern Metropolis Daily comments:

Livestreamers' blacklist sets good example

ON TUESDAY, the online performing and livestreaming branch of China Association of Performing Arts issued a blacklist that includes 59 online livestreamers. China Daily writer Zhang Zhouxiang comments:

US undermines its privileged status with 'America first'

Editor's note: The US has once again reneged on the consensus reached with China and unilaterally threatened that it will impose 10 percent tariffs on $300 billion worth of Chinese goods, an absurd move that once again exposes to the world that there are some in the US willing to ignore rules and break promises. Zhong Sheng, a columnist for People's Daily, comments:

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