Meanwhile, several high speed railway lines have started operation from Shanghai to Northeast provinces. Our reporter Lin Nan tells us how the new lines will help ease the travel rush during the coming Spring Festival....
Good news for millions of commuters just ahead of the countrys busiest travel season of the year. Chinas railway network topped 100,000 kilometers in total mileage on Saturday, after several new rail links started operations. Capturing a moment in hi...
South Pole weather has stymied a rescue by a Chinese icebreaker trying to reach an expedition vessel trapped for the past few days in frozen seas. South Pole weather has stymied a rescue by a Chinese icebreaker trying to reach an expedition vessel tr...
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Chinese authorities have said that all those still serving time in labour camps will be released today. But they added that the penalties handed out before the abolition of the labour camps will still be considered legitimate. The Vice director of th...
For more analysis from the South Korean side, lets speak to John Delury, an assistant professor of Chinese studies at Yonsei University in South Korea. Thanks for joining us, Mr. Delury. Q1: South Korea is putting off exchange meetings between the tw...
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abes visit to the Yasukuni shrine has drawn much criticism from South Korea. Seoul has gone so far as to call off a series of defense meetings and military exchanges with Japan scheduled for early next year. Deputy defe...
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The United States has joined China and South Korea in criticizing Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for visiting the Yasukuni Shrine. In an email interview, a US State Department spokesperson told CCTV that although Japan is a valued ally and friend...
The joint mission in charge of the chemical weapons clean-up in Syria says the December 31st deadline for removing the most toxic of the countrys chemical weapons wont be met. According to the head of logistics for the Organisation for the Prohibitio...
The Syrian army has killed over 70 rebels crossing the border from Lebanon. The ambush in the Qalamoun area near Syrias capital, Damascus was carried out in close coordination with Hezbollah. But despite the attack, as CCTVs Alaa Ebrahim in Syria rep...
A Russian scholar says Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine is a grave provocation to regional peace. Alexander Larin, researcher at Russian Academy of Sciences, says the visit will deeply hurt the feelings of those count...
Iraqi security forces have arrested a prominent Sunni Muslim lawmaker and supporter of anti-government protests in a deadly raid on his home in the western province of Anbar. According to police, at least five people were killed. Ahmed al-Alwani belo...
A Syrian army air strike on a vegetable market in the northern city of Aleppo killed at least 25 people on Saturday. A video posted on the internet by a local activist group shows scenes of carnage as residents pull corpses out of scorched car frames...
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