Argentina beats Croatia to win its first Davis Cup title. Argentina beat Croatia 3-2 and won the Davis Cup for the first time in Zagreb on Sunday. Croatia started in the final day with 2-1 lead, but Marin Cilic failed to beat Juan Martin del Potro of Argentina in a match that lasted four hours […]
Zhou Qi of Xinjiang blocks Liaoning’s Han Dejun in the game. Xinjiang Kept their unbeatean record at home after beating Liaoning 112-107 in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) league on Sunday. Darius Adams scored 24 points and 10 assists, including a 3-pointer with 18.3 seconds left to seal the victory for Xinjiang. Li Gen led […]
The moment of triumph: Nico Rosberg celebrates his first world title at the Abu Dhabi. British F1 pilot Lewis Hamilton won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Sunday evening, but his Mercedes-GP teammate Nico Rosberg from Germany finished second, enough to win a 33rd F1 title. Rosberg’s compatriot and Scuderia Ferrari pilot Sebastian Vettel, a […]
Chelsea’s N’Golo Kante puts the grab on Tottenham’s Mousa Dembele during their Premier League match on Saturday. Chelsea manager Antonio Conte warned his players against overconfidence after they returned to the Premier League summit with a gritty 2-1 victory over Tottenham Hotspur on Saturday. Christian Eriksen put Spurs ahead at Stamford Bridge but Pedro Rodriguez […]
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index closed by being down 43.4 points, or 0.79 percent at 5,464 points. The broader All Ordinaries index was down 37.9 points, or 0.68 percent at 5,532 points. The market stayed flat after falling when trading opened in the day, apart from a brief uptick just after noon. “We saw weakness […]
Astrophysicist Zhang Shuangnan likes traditional Chinese deep-fried dough sticks with Western coffee for breakfast before he starts work on studying why a black hole gets “angry.” Sometimes he finds time to ponder why a woman is pretty, or to write poems on gravitational waves or quantum entanglement. “All these things are fun,” says the 54-year-old […]
Their surprising success this season in the Bundesliga just might help change RB Leipzig’s poor reputation among German football fans. Currently the league newcomer is light years away from becoming a widely-accepted and celebrated club. Founded only seven years ago, the club was previously accused of having no soul on the pitch, and what’s worse, […]
The country’s main opposition Congress party held protests in various states against the sudden scrapping of currency notes of higher denominations and its impact on the common people, but stayed away from the shutdown call by the Communist parties. Even regional parties like the Trinamool Congress in the eastern state of West Bengal, Bahujan Samaj […]
The annual Zhejiang Agricultural Expo is being held from Nov. 25 to Nov. 29 in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang Province. This year’s theme is the promotion of an agricultural economy that is “efficient and ecological, characteristic, high-grade, green and safe.” As a large-scale national agricultural event, the expo has attracted more than 1,200 enterprises […]
Box office sales in the world’s second largest film market have posted average growth of 35 percent year on year since 2003. In 2015 alone, it grew a whopping 48.7 percent, according to the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SARFT). The regulator said that although this year’s growth will be slightly […]
“Militant outfit Khalistan Liberation Force’s chief Harminder Singh Mintoo was caught near Delhi’s border in the early hours of the day. Four other gangsters, however, remain missing,” a senior police official said. The arrest came following a tip-off by police from the neighboring state of Haryana that Mintoo was trying to go to Delhi from […]
Twenty-eight brilliant Ghanaian students who have excelled in learning Chinese language received scholarships at a ceremony hosted by the Confucius Institute at the University of Ghana on Friday. Instituted five years ago, the Chinese Ambassador’s Awards for Excellence is meant to give special recognition to the best and brightest among students of Chinese language and […]
More than 5,000 passengers were stranded Monday at the Urumqi airport in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region as a heavy snowstorm battered the region, the airport said. Blizzards and freezing fog hit the region beginning early Monday, forcing the runway to close in the regional capital of Urumqi, said a manager with the airport’s […]
The President of Sierra Leone Ernest Bai Koroma will pay a state visit to China from Nov. 30 to Dec. 6 at the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lu Kang announced on Monday China, officially the People’s Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary sovereign state in East Asia. With a […]
Cuban were working on Sunday to prepare for a national tribute to their revolutionary leader, Fidel Castro, who died late Friday at the age of 90. A boy stands below a Cuban national flag at half-mast in honor of Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, in Havana, capital of Cuba, on Nov. 27, 2016. [Photo/Xinhua] The […]
A visitor interacts with robots at the Third International Internet Forum in Wuzhen, Zhejiang province, on Nov 15, 2016. [China Daily] Security officer AnBot, on patrol at the Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport, stands out from other security officers at the scene. They are tall-and cool. In contrast, AnBot is just 1.5 meters in height and […]
Alibaba’s staff members celebrate in Shenzhen the success of the shopping spree on Nov 11, 2016. [Xinhua] Meng Cuiyi spent almost $90,000 at Alibaba’s online mall in the past year. The 33-year-old restaurateur buys pretty much everything there — Burberry apparel, La Mer skincare products, furniture, groceries and more. After Alibaba’s annual Singles Day sale […]
An employee at a bank counter in Nantong, Jiangsu province, counts renminbi and dollars. [Photo/China Daily] Yi Gang, deputy governor of the People’s Bank of China, the central bank, told Xinhua News Agency late Sunday that the yuan remains a stable and strong currency in the global monetary system, and it cannot be ruled out […]
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