A study tracking rainfall patterns over thousands of years has found that more arid periods coincided with ages of dynastic ...

Throughout history, China has maintained a deep connection with ice and snow. Beyond simply enduring the harsh cold winter ...

Today’s tariffs usually refer to international trade. But there’s a distinctly old-school, fire-and-brimstone flavour to ...

China's relations are starting to improve with Japan, India and other countries that former U.S. President Joe Biden courted, just as Donald Trump brings his more unilateralist approach back to ...

BANGKOK: Thai authorities denied on Wednesday (Jan 22) there was an immediate plan to send back to China 48 Uyghurs held in the country's detention centres, after UN experts warned the group ...

China’s Hefei Institutes of Physical Science has claimed a new world record for maintaining a steady-state high-confinement plasma operation, a feat needed to create a fusion reactor that in theory ...

Befitting its ancient lineage, the citrus genus has taken on symbolic significance in different religions around the world. In China ... "Casanova, the world's greatest lover as they say, used ...

China is already aiming to start a massive solar energy project known as the ‘Great Solar Wall,’ in the Kubuqi Desert of Inner Mongolia. This 48 billion US dollar project aims to create 48 billion kWh ...

“We have seven or possibly even eight native species in this country, whereas in China, they have only five.” The first citrus varieties to arrive in the Mediterranean from Asia were the citron and ...

China is committed to continuing its participation in the WHO and the Paris climate accord, expressing concern over US President Trump’s orders to withdraw from both. Beijing emphasizes the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

It is 10 years since Beijing announced an ambitious plan called Made in China 2025 to transform the country from "a low-cost manufacturing base into a high-tech superpower". President Xi Jinping's ...