You may have had the experience of seeing your favourite book turned into a movie, but finding out that it is poorly produced. Going forward, you can help to change it, the entertainment business can also resort to online social funding. Now you can...
Microsoft is about to seal the deal of a 7.2 billion US dollar takeover of Nokias devices business Friday, which paves the way for getting into the mobile devices market. Microsoft will takeover Nokias Devices Services business, license Nokias patent...
The official language of Afghanistan now has its first ever Chinese dictionary, thanks to a linguist in Beijing. Seventy-eight year old Che Hongcai has just completed the first ever Pashto-Chinese dictionary, a project commissioned 36 years ago by th...
Full coverage: Diaoyu Islands: Chinas Inherent Territory Chinas Foreign Ministry has reiterated its opposition to the US-Japan joint statement, which said that the Security Treaty between them included the Diaoyu Islands. The islands are at the cente...
Across China, the education system differs widely, offering unequal opportunites. While the government is trying to narrow that gap, building larger rural schools, there are still throw-backs to a simpler time. From a remote part of Hubei Province in...
Now for more on the presser by The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, we are joined in the studio by my colleague Wu Haojun. Q1: The big picture for employment certainly looks good here especially considering the economic climate, now,...
Friday is the 29th National Child Vaccination Awareness Day in China. It coincides with the World Health Organizations World Immunization Week and this years theme is Stop Hepatitis B and Liver Cancer; Vaccinate at Birth. The World Health Organizatio...
South Korean Foreign Minister says the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea has stepped up activity at its main nuclear test site, possibly preparing to carry out a fourth underground blast. Yun Byung-se said on Thursday that his government has obser...
It has been ten days since the South Korean ferry, Sewol, capsized off the southern Jindo Island with 476 people on board. Six bodies were recovered overnight Thursday, taking the death toll to 181, with 121 people still missing. The number of surviv...
The South Korean Coast Guard is in the final stage of preparing for the salvage efforts. Four crane barges that can lift a thousand tons each, have arrived at the incident area. The 145-meter-long, 22-meter-wide passenger ferry is the biggest ferry a...
Obamas plane touched down in Seoul about an hour ago. According to the schedule released by South Koreas Blue House, Obama and his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-hye will hold talks in the afternoon. The US president is expected to meet business...
To talk more about Obama's Japan and South Korea visits, we are now joined in the studio by Teng Jianqun, Director of the Center of Arms Control at the China Institute of International Studies. Q1: Obama reassured Japan that the alliance between the...
Since 2006, the DPRK has conducted three nuclear tests at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site, the latest was in February 2013. On October 9th, 2006 the DPRK announced it has successfully conducted an underground nuclear test. The country said it was fa...
Ukrainian forces launched an operation Thursday to drive pro-Russia insurgents out of occupied buildings in the countrys tumultuous east. The country's Interior Ministry confirmed that up to five pro-Russian insurgents were killed as government troop...
Russia has begun new military drills near the border with Ukraine. Russia's defense minister, Sergei Shoigu, said the move is in response to operations by Ukrainian forces against pro-Russian separatists and NATO exercises in eastern Europe. Shoigu a...
