Communities make efforts to protect animals amid COVID-19 quarantine measures
"When we conduct nucleic acid tests on chickens, we need one person to pinch the beak and the other to reach into the chicken's throat with a cotton swab. Pigs…
WHO team in Wuhan begins field study Friday, to visit hospitals, meet local experts
The WHO team of 13 scientists on the mission to study the origins of the coronavirus is scheduled to visit local hospitals and seafood market and have face-to-face meetings with…
Chinese military to recruit twice a year since 2021
China's military will shift its conscription from once a year to twice a year, starting from 2021, a military spokesperson said at a press conference Thursday. Approved by the State…
Political figures vow all-out efforts to safeguard Hong Kong’s prosperity, stability
Political figures sanctioned by the United States for the national security legislation in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) have vowed all-out efforts to safeguard the prosperity and stability…
20 people sentenced for smuggling meat from animal epidemic-affected India, Argentina
20 people in Wenzhou, a trading hub in East China's Zhejiang Province, were sentenced to prison and fined on Thursday for smuggling more than 487 tons of frozen meat products…
Former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management Co. Lai Xiaomin executed on Friday in accordance with legal procedures
Former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management Co. Lai Xiaomin executed on Friday in accordance with legal procedures Former chairman of China Huarong Asset Management Co. Lai Xiaomin executed on…
Beijing beefs up entry restrictions ahead of New Year holiday
Beijing will strengthen its entry restrictions during the Lunar New Year holiday break, requiring even people from low-risk areas to hold seven-day valid nucleic acid tests when coming to the…
China moves up Transparency International’s 2020 anti-corruption list
The Berlin-based NGO Transparency International (TI) on Thursday released its 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index, in which China ranks 78th out of 180 countries and regions. China's ranking in the list…
Man to be prosecuted for allegedly dismembering and dissolving ‘missing’ wife
The case in which a Chinese man, who murdered and dismembered his wife but reported to the police the "missing" of the woman in Hangzhou of East China's Zhejiang Province…
New dataset with improved coverage indicates increased global warming trend since 1850s: research
An international team lead by Chinese scientists using a newly merged temperature dataset which is able to cover almost the entire surface of the globe found that there has been…