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"We are in a war against the coronavirusthere is no good reason to run away when you can be a fighter."...

China's Geely Auto and Swedish brand Volvo Cars, both subsidiaries of Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, are planning to merge their businesses, a move that is expected to create the country's first truly global and most valuable carmaker....

Favilavir, formerly known as Fapilavir, an antiviral that has shown efficacy in treating the novel coronavirus, was approved for marketing, the Taizhou government in Zhejiang province announced Sunday....

The number of confirmed infections of the novel coronavirus on the Chinese mainland climbed to 70,548 as of Sunday at midnight, including 1,770 deaths, according to the National Health Commission....

Wuhan, Hubei province, center of the novel coronavirus outbreak, has started to provide medical treatment for non-infected patients, according to the local health commission....

Auto sales in China fell 18 percent year-on-year in January, the 19th consecutive month of decline, and the country's leading industry association expects the short-term prospects to be even gloomier, as the novel coronavirus outbreak continues....

Without doubt, the COVID-19 contagion has had an impact on China's A-share market. Yet, there is no need to panic as the impact is widely expected to be short-lived. And market risks are still under control....

More officials in Hubei province, center of the novel coronavirus outbreak, have been removed from office or disciplined for shirking their responsibilities in the fight against the epidemic as discipline inspection authorities strengthen supervision....

Wang Guansheng, a volunteer in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning province, has been busy raising funds and collecting protective equipment amid the nationwide battle against the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak....

Zhang Yajun, a Beijing resident in her 40s, didn't expect her husband would change their holiday plan of traveling in Japan into a face-mask-buying trip during the recent Lunar New Year holiday....

The climate change is the gravest and most urgent obstacle to the global stability and prosperity, and greater joint efforts made by every country and every community in the world are necessary to deal with the crisis, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterre...

As the time for growing rice in Myanmar approaches, Kyaw Thet Naing, a farmer who lives on the outskirts of the nation's capital Nay Pyi Taw, already has high hope for his harvest....

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, has called on the world to deal with misinformation,...

For some youth traveling to Beijing, a toyshop in the commercial district of Wangfujing is just as enticing as a trip to must-see attractions like the Forbidden City, the Great Wall or the Summer Palace....

Dance lessons, a lending library and psychological counseling are not what you would expect to see in a hospital for patients infected with novel coronavirus pneumonia, which has killed more than 1,600 people on the Chinese mainland....

As China races to contain the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak and minimize its international spread, Chinese people living abroad are battling stigma and discrimination....

A Turkish delegation will travel to Russia on Monday to discuss the situation in Syria's Idlib province amid mounting fears of a humanitarian disaster there, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said....

Since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia, now named COVID-19, China's stringent measures to combat the epidemic have not only attracted the attention of millions of Chinese, but also foreign governments....

The Syrian government forces have captured 13 villages and towns in the northern and northwestern countryside of Aleppo Province in northern Syria over the past 24 hours, a war monitor reported Sunday....

Zijin Mining Group Co Ltd, a Fujian province-based miner of metal ores and the country's largest gold producer, has been stepping up efforts in recent years to make acquisitions overseas to meet surging demand in the global market....

Reducing alcohol consumption has helped Russians improve their life expectancy, a World Health Organization reported has indicated....

China is doing everything it can to control the novel coronavirus despite the high economic cost, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai said, reassuring the world on China's outbreak effort....

Storm Dennis roared across the United Kingdom on Saturday, lashing towns and cities with high winds and heavy rain....

European aircraft producer Airbus said on Saturday that the United States' decision to increase tariff on aircraft imported from the European Union further escalated trade tensions between the US and the EU....

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It is the United States that poses threats to China through repeated suppression, accusation and tarnishing, rather than the opposite, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in a far-ranging interview with Reuters on Friday in Berlin....

Some of the world's finest designer brands in the beauty and consumer retail sectors are donating sizeable funds to Chinese charities and local organizations to help combat the novel coronavirus epidemic....

In the age of New Retail, operators of traditional department stores, malls and e-commerce platforms in China are turning ingenious to find novel ways of staying afloat and relevant, as consumers' tastes and preferences evolve rapidly, with focus on c...

The 56th Munich Security Conference (MSC) closed on Sunday as attendees didn't share consensus on...

In the battle against COVID-19, emerging technologies have stood out by making immense contributions in an unexpected, creative and amazingly responsive way. In the process, they have helped arrest or contain the spread of the deadly virus, thus becoming ...

The virus loses its vitality slower at lower temperatures, and faster at higher temperatures, most rapidly at 56 C. But there is no clear evidence that the virus is deactivated much faster in a room temperature of 30 C than in winter outdoor temperatures....

Communities and neighborhood committees in Beijing are preparing to upgrade prevention and quarantine measures after the capital released a new quarantine rule on Friday....

Here are some encouraging medical research developments achieved over the weekend related to the fight against the novel coronavirus....

There will be no peak period during this year's 40-day Spring Festival travel rush, which will end on Tuesday, due to the ongoing novel coronavirus, the Ministry of Transport said over the weekend....

The novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak could change people's habit of using cash and increase their reliance on electronic payment, which in turn could accelerate the issuance of government-backed digital currency in China, according to analysts....

Chinese scientists are actively communicating and collaborating with their international peers to further understand the novel coronavirus and find medications, vaccines and diagnostic methods to stop the virus' spread, officials and experts said....

TOKYOThe number of people who have tested positive for the novel coronavirus on a quarantined ship off Japan's coast has risen to 355, the country's health minister said on Sunday....

The Tesla topped the world as the best-selling electric vehicle brand in 2019, followed by two Chinese brands BYD and BAIC, according to a report released in February by EV-volumes.com, an international electric vehicles sales database....

The novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak has made people realize once again that this is an era in which traditional security and nontraditional security issues are interconnected, and local issues easily become global ones and vice versa, said State Coun...

Achieving this year's economic growth-related goals has become as important as containing the spread of the novel coronavirus pneumonia outbreak, and policymakers are rolling out more measures to win the two battles, according to officials and analyst...

Post-mortem examinations on two patients who died from novel coronavirus pneumonia were finished in Wuhan Jinyintan Hospital on Sunday, according to a report by China Central Television....

The first batch of 28 round-trip through buses departed on Thursday from East China's Fujian province to several other provinces to bring employees of more than 20 enterprises in Fuzhou's Changle district back to work....

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An asymptomatic novel coronavirus pneumonia patient might have infected at least 12 people in a hospital's respiratory department in Changzhou, East China's Jiangsu province by Sunday....

Yichang, a city in the southwestern part of Hubei province, is still in a difficult situation in the fight against the novel coronavirus outbreak, according to its mayor.Mayor Zhang Jiasheng said at a news conference on Sunday afternoon in Wuhan, capital ...