Ge Fengjin, son of Ge Daorong, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, held a testimony meeting here on Wednesday night to convey the truth about the Nanjing Massacre in 1937 and remind people to never forget history. Photo: Xinhua Ge Fengjin, son of Ge Daorong, a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre, held a testimony meeting …
US President Donald Trump (R) and Kim Jong Un, top leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), meet at the Freedom House, a South Korean building in the inter-Korean border village of Panmunjom, June 30, 2019. (Xinhua/NEWSIS) A Chinese envoy on Wednesday called on the United States and the Democratic People’s Republic of …
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un attended the testing of a “super-large multiple rocket launcher” at an undisclosed location in North Korea on September 10, 2019. Photo: IC North Korea fired two “unidentified projectiles” on Thursday – the Thanksgiving holiday in the US – Seoul said, as nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington remain deadlocked. …
Family members carry the coffin bearing the remains of Hoang Van Tiep from his home to a church for a funeral service in Dien Chau district, Nghe An province, Vietnam on Thursday. Photo: AFP Throngs of weeping relatives on Thursday buried the first of 39 Vietnamese people found dead in a truck in Britain last …
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Photo: Xinhua Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern offered an official apology Thursday on the 40th anniversary of New Zealand’s worst peacetime disaster, the Mount Erebus air crash in which 257 people died. An Air New Zealand DC-10 on a sightseeing flight over Antarctica slammed into remote Mount Erebus during “whiteout” …
A South Korean court on Friday sentenced the impeached President Park Geun-hye to 24 years in jail with a fine of 18 billion won (17 million US dollars) for corruption. South Korea’s top court on Thursday ordered a second retrial for disgraced former president Park Geun-hye, seeking heavier punishment for illegally taking money from the …
Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe delivers a speech at the end of a disaster drill to simulate an emergency response to a strong 7.3 magnitude quake in Tokyo on September 1, 2015. Photo: VCG Some Japanese lawmakers giggled this week during a drill to practice the use of disaster prevention helmets, at least one of …
Transgender beautician Bebo Haider (behind) attends to a customer in her beauty parlor in Karachi, Pakistan, on October 15. Photo: AFP Bebo Haider’s beauty parlor is bright, small, and decorated sparsely with three large photographs: transgender models who became her clients because the Karachi salon is one of the few in Pakistan which caters to …
File photo: Xinhua Tram drivers in the Australian city of Melbourne stopped work on Thursday, demanding higher pay and more reliable work schedules. The halt of the world’s largest tram network has forced thousands of passengers onto replacement buses, following an ongoing dispute between the workers’ union and private operator Yarra Trams. The action took …
Soldiers take part in their graduation ceremony at Kabul Military Training Center (KMTC) in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov. 27, 2019. A total of 1,335 fresh recruits joined the Afghan National Army after completing military training at the KMTC, a military source said Wednesday. (Xinhua/Rahmatullah Alizadah) A soldier takes part in a graduation ceremony at Kabul Military …