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China spent 21.51 billion yuan ($2.99 billion) for science popularization efforts in 2023, marking a YOY increase of 12.6%. This is the first time that expenditure in the sector surpassed 20 billion yuan, according to data released by the Ministry of Science and Technology on Monday.


Beijing, China's capital city, will continue to increase its green space, aiming to raise the forest coverage rate to 45% by 2025, the Beijing Municipal Forestry and Parks Bureau said.


US President Joe Biden on Monday announced nearly $2.5 billion in additional security assistance for Ukraine.

The announcement includes an additional $1.25 billion drawdown package for the Ukrainian military and a $1.22 billion Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) package.


Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday extended condolences to his U.S. counterpart, Joe Biden, over the passing of former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.

On behalf of the Chinese government and people, as well as in his own name, Xi expressed deep condolences over the passing of Carter and extended sincere sympathy to the Carter family.


Azerbaijan Airlines announced on Friday a suspension of flights from Baku to several Russian cities, effective Saturday, aiming to mitigate potential risks to flight safety.

A preliminary investigation into the crash in Kazakhstan of an Embraer 190 aircraft operated by Azerbaijan Airlines indicated external physical and technical interference as a contributing factor.


China's external financial assets stood at $10.21 trillion at the end of September, surpassing the 10-trillion-dollar mark for the first time and representing a 4.3% growth from that at the end of June, according to the State Administration of Foreign Exchange on Friday.


German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier (pic) on Friday dissolved the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, and announced the snap elections will be held on Feb. 23, after Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost a confidence vote on Dec. 16.


China created a total of 11.98 million new urban jobs in the first 11 months of the year, official data showed on Friday.

During the January-September period, a total of 80.2 billion yuan ($11.2 billion) was issued in employment subsidies to enterprises nationwide to encourage employment.


With an operational mileage of 59 km, a new metro line linking Shanghai's Pudong and Hongqiao airports opened on Friday, bringing the city's total operational mileage of rail transit network to 896 km, according to Shanghai Metro.


China's Supreme People's Procuratorate on Friday ordered the arrest of Yang Zixing, former vice governor of NW China's Gansu Province, for suspected bribe-taking, after an investigation by the National Commission of Supervision.


Effective Jan. 1, 2025, China will increase the age limits for drivers of medium and heavy buses and trucks from 60 to 63 as part of the country's efforts to delay the retirement age and accommodate an aging workforce, according to revised regulations.


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As if driving on planet Mars! Surrounded by the magnificent Yadan landform, an unpaved shortcut in Mangya, northwest China's Qinghai Province, takes your road adventure to a whole new level.


South Korea's opposition-controlled parliament voted Friday to impeach Prime Minister Han Duck-soo (pic) who had been serving as acting president following President Yoon Suk-yeol's impeachment.

South Korea's Minister of Economy and Finance Choi Sang-mok is set to begin his scheduled duties as acting president on Friday, Yonhap news agency reported.


Shang Liguang, former deputy party chief of N China's Shanxi Province, was on Friday sentenced to life imprisonment for accepting bribes worth over 104 million yuan (about $15 million), according to the verdict issued by a court in Henan Province.


The value of China's international trade in goods and services reached nearly 4.28 trillion yuan in November, marking an increase of 3% year on year and a surplus of $69 billion, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said on Friday.


China's local governments issued new bonds worth 4.67 trillion yuan (about $650 billion) in the first 11 months of this year, data from the Ministry of Finance showed on Friday.


The man who caused heavy casualties after ramming his car into the crowd at a sports center last month in Zhuhai, S China's Guangdong, was sentenced to death on Friday by Zhuhai Intermediate People's Court.


Since July of last year, Chinese archaeological institutions have conserved and restored 4,062 invaluable artifacts excavated from the Sanxingdui site in SW China's Sichuan Province, the National Cultural Heritage Administration revealed Thursday.

Spanning 12 square kilometers, the Sanxingdui Ruins are believed to be the remnants of the Shu Kingdom dating back 4,500 to 3,000 years and are considered one of the world's most significant archaeological discoveries of the 20th century.


China's Guangzhou Futures Exchange on Thursday began trading polysilicon futures, with the trading of polysilicon options to open on Friday.

Polysilicon is a key raw material in the manufacturing of solar cells and silicon substrates for integrated circuits.


China's first commercial reactor device for the online irradiation production of isotopes was officially put into operation at the Qinshan Nuclear Power Base in E China's Zhejiang province on Thursday, with the first batch of Lutetium-177 (Lu-177) medical isotopes produced there extracted from the reactor, according to China Atomic Energy Authority.

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