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BEIJING, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Minor Planet No. 456677 was named after Chinese aerospace scientist Ye Peijian at a ceremony on Monday.Ye is active in the country's lunar probe and deep space missions, and an academician

URUMQI, May 8 (Xinhua) -- In the Chinese animation The Tales of Effendi, a cute donkey from Kashgar in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region becomes famous as he carries his master around.In reality, don

BEIJING, May 8 (Xinhuanet) -- Discovering more local characteristics of traditional Chinese festivals in different places will be helpful for the development and prosperity of traditional Chinese culture, said Chinese fo

LANZHOU, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Painting restoration on a prominent Tibetan Buddhist monastery in northwest China's Gansu Province had begun May 3, local authorities said Monday.The restoration of paintings on timber in f

RABAT, May 8 (Xinhua) -- For many centuries, Morocco had played a major role in the old Maritime Silk Road, connecting the major civilizations of Asia, Europe and Africa.With the Belt and Road Initiative, Morocco is set

UNITED NATIONS, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Almost 435,000 people have been displaced from western Mosul of Iraq since the start of military operations on the western neighborhoods on Feb. 19, a UN spokesperson said Monday.Over 40

FRANKFURT, May 8 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Climate Change Conference kicked off Monday in the western German city of Bonn.Around 3,000 delegates gathered here for talking over further implementation of the Paris Agr

DAMASCUS, May 8 (Xinhua) -- A massive U.S., British and Jordanian military movement was spotted near the southern Syrian borders in what appeared to be the near zero hour on the Syrian-Jordanian borders, pan-Arab al-Maya

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, May 8 (Xinhua) -- China on Monday provided Nigeria with 5 million U.S. dollars in emergency humanitarian aid as part of its support for relief efforts by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) in

ATHENS, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Years since Chinese giant COSCO Shipping's arrival at Piraeus port, the image of Greece's largest port has changed dramatically.Greeks and Chinese continue to work hard together to reali

DAKAR, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Vice President Li Yuanchao on Monday visited the Confucius Institute of Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD) in Dakar, Senegal, and attended the unveiling ceremony of a new teaching buildin

BUDAPEST, May 8 (Xinhua) -- China's Belt and Road Initiative is really a great and brilliant project, Akos Kovacs, the CEO of Hungary's Ekol Logistics, told Xinhua in a recent interview.It can really help the tra

GENEVA, May 8 (Xinhua) -- China's Belt and Road Initiative is expected to enhance greater international cooperation while fostering multilateral ties between participating countries, the World Intellectual Property O

SAN FRANCISCO, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Ride-service company Uber is under a criminal investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice for its use of a software to deliberately evade local transportation regulators, two sources

TEHRAN, May 7 (Xinhua) -- Iran lost to Tahiti on penalty shootout and failed to book a place in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Bahamas 2017, Tasnim news agency reported on Sunday.The match got off to a very tentative st