Chinese students begin to smoke at a younger age

BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Almost one in four Chinese students aged between 12 and 14 have tried smoking, according to the results of a survey released by the Chinese Association on Tobacco Control (CATC). The survey, carried out among 38,839 st

Yearender: Chinese soccer breaks hearts, again

BEIJING, Dec. 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese soccer fans witnessed another year of fiascos, but this time, they accept it more peacefully as both players and fans feel nothing unusual for they've tasted so many failures in recent years and some of them even

Mavericks sign Chinese star Yi for one year

BEIJING, Jan. 1 (Xinhua) -- The Dallas Mavericks is set to sign free agent forward Yi Jianlian on a one-year deal, according to an ESPN report on Sunday. The 24-year-old Chinese averaged 5.6 points and 3.9 rebounds with Washington last season. Yi's b

Chinese vice premier arrives in Britain for visit

EDINBURGH, Britain, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice Premier（副总理 ） Li Keqiang arrived here on Sunday for a four-day official visit to Britain. Upon his arrival, Li said in a statement delivered at the airport that recent years have seen stea

央视指责演员片酬高 《如懿传》霍建华周迅被点名批评

Some of China's most high-profile actors and actresses are vastly overpaid, receiving up to 100 million yuan ($14.99 million) for a single movie or TV series, a China Central Television (CCTV) report found. 中央电视台于近日报道，国内一些

外媒看中国 春节微信红包满天飞

Popular messaging service WeChat is hogging the limelight this Chinese New Year by giving the traditions typical of this festive period a facelift. 这个农历新年，大众短信服务平台微信抢尽了风头使节日的传统习俗焕然一新。

微信提现自3月1日起将要收费

WeChat，a Tencent-backed popular messaging application that boasts half a billion users, will start to charge individual users to transfer money from the app's digital wallet service to their personal bank accounts. 由腾讯公司推出的即时通讯

警惕微信红包背后的"微腐败"

Red envelope gifts via mobile devices, popular in China during festivals, have brought a new challenge in the fight against corruption. 过节时，手机红包非常流行，这给反腐带来了挑战。 Cheng Wenhao, director of the Anti-Corruptio

国家严打微信红包赌局

The investigation began after police in the city of Taizhou of Zhejiang started getting complaints from people who say they were losing hundreds of yuan a day through a Wechat group. Li Kangcheng, vice director of a local police station in the area,

微信成新媒体主要平台

According to the report, the internet is now a must for many Chinese people seeking information, communicating, shopping, and paying for various products and services. Li Peilin, vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, says the serv

微信广告来了 部分用户吐槽

Recent online voting conducted by China Central Television shows more than 80 percent of WeChat users consider the ads to be commercial harassment. I am disgusted with it. WeChat Moments is a platform that should help me learn what's going on with my

全国关闭多个违法网站和微信号

China's Cyberspace Administration has released a blacklist of websites, channels, and WeChat accounts which have been shut down over the past two months. 24 websites, 9 channels, and 17 WeChat accounts have all been closed due to serious violations o

高大上 美国有家用微信控制的酒店

On the sidelines of CES in Las Vegas, Ceasars Entertainment partnered up with WeChat to give tours of new smart hotel rooms at The LINQ, a local hotel and casino. Visitors could use an app inside WeChat to control lighting, thermostats, and curtains.

微信支付向境外商户全面开放 支持九种外币

Tencent Holdings is expanding its WeChat mobile payment system to stores in more than 20 countries and regions to tap into the growing purchasing power of Chinese outbound tourists. 为了利用中国出境游客日益增强的购买力，社交网络巨

农民工劳力增长放缓

BEIJING, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Growth in the number of former farmers pursuing non-agricultural work has slowed as more people are reluctant to leave their hometowns, official data showed on Saturday. China had 274 million farmer-turned-laborers as of

U.S. House Speaker eyes "plan B" for "fiscal cliff"

WASHINGTON, Dec. 18 (Xinhua)-- U.S. House Speaker John Boehner said on Tuesday that he will move to a backup option for the fiscal woes due in January while remained hopeful a broader deal can be reached with the President Barack Obama. Boehner spoke

U.S. last-ditch fiscal cliff talks continue in Senate

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- U.S. lawmakers in the upper house of Congress on Sunday were attempting to strike a last- minute deal to solve the so-called fiscal cliff, but the two sides have not inked a deal as the nation neared the verge of cliff

我国将组建国家级核应急救援队

China plans to complete the assembly of a national nuclear emergency response team by the end of 2018, Wang Yiren, deputy director of China Atomic Energy Authority, said last Tuesday. 国家原子能机构副主任王毅韧上周二表示，我国计划

Loew calls up Adler, Neustaedter for Netherlands friendly

BERLIN, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) -- Germany coach Joachim Loew made two surprises on Friday when he announced his 22-man squad for the upcoming friendly against the Netherlands. Hamburg's goalkeeper Rene Adler returns to the Nationalmannschaft after two years

Forlan ready for Internacional return: Dunga

RIO DE JANEIRO, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- Uruguay striker Diego Forlan could return to Internacional's starting line-up for the Brazilian club's fixture against Pelotas in the Campeonato Gaucho on Saturday. Forlan was used as a 70th-minute substitute in Uru