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More than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2022, according to data released this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The year of 2022 was the deadliest on record for drug overdoses, which claimed the lives of an estimated 109,680 people, according to numbers posted Wednesday by the CDC. Overdose […]

China’s tourism sector rolled out lots of preferential policies this month to fuel tourism growth across the country. The policies include issuing vouchers for cultural and tourism activities, providing assistance for the elderly and the disabled during their trips, and offering free performances. The preferential activities will run throughout May, according to the Ministry of […]

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning on Friday expressed opposition on the strengthening military collusion between the United States and the Taiwan authorities, saying that the U.S. is turning Taiwan into a “powder keg. Mao made the remarks at a regular press briefing when asked to comment on a delegation of 25 U.S. arms dealers […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday stressed speeding up the construction of the country’s modern industrial system backed by the real economy and advancing Chinese modernization with support from high-quality development of the population. Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made […]

The Philippines received more than 1.8 million foreign tourists since January this year, Philippines Tourism Secretary Christina Garcia Frasco said on Wednesday. “We have met last year’s target of 1.7 million in four months,” Frasco told a forum held here, adding the Southeast Asian country aims to become a “tourism powerhouse” in Asia. She attributed […]

Israel and Georgia on Wednesday signed the first tourism agreement, the Israeli Ministry of Tourism announced in a statement. The agreement was signed by Israeli Tourism Minister Haim Katz and Georgia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ilia Darchiashvili who is paying an official visit to Israel. As part of the agreement, the two countries will promote […]

Hit by devastating earthquakes in early February, Türkiye now faces environmental challenges on the disposal of the waste and rubbles left over from the destroyed buildings and roads. Two massive earthquakes destroyed cities on large swaths of land in southern Türkiye on Feb. 6, killing nearly 51,000 people. Referred to as “the disaster of the […]

China’s revised Law on the Protection of Wildlife, adopted by the top legislature in December last year, went into effect Monday, as part of the country’s effort to better protect wildlife and their habitats. The revised law has refined measures for the regulation of wildlife populations in detail. In view of the situation in which […]

The Office of the Commissioner of the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on Thursday strongly disapproved and firmly rejected Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno’s irresponsible words on the National Security Law for the HKSAR, the practice of “one country, two systems”, and freedom of the press and speech […]

Chinese police have launched this year’s campaign to apprehend economic fugitives who have fled overseas, according to the Ministry of Public Security. Public security organs will intensify efforts to solve key cases of fugitive repatriation and the recovering of criminal assets in the “Fox Hunt 2023” campaign, and support discipline inspection and supervision departments in […]