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Indonesia's East Nusa Tenggara provincial government has declared a 14-day emergency response status following a 7.7-magnitude earthquake that struck Flores Island on Aug. 15, according to a provincial government decree.The emergency response period runs from Aug. 15 to Aug. 28, said the decree

China's railway network handled 2.8 billion passenger trips in the first seven months of 2026, up 4.1 percent year-on-year and setting a new record, China State Railway Group, the national railway operator, said on Saturday.

Around 500 cyclists took to the roads on Sunday, completing a 179-kilometer journey across Cambodia to promote green tourism and deliver educational supplies to underprivileged students.The event drew both local and international cyclists from various countries. The group journeyed from the capital

The death toll from the boat capsize accident at Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe on Tuesday has risen to 80 after eight more bodies were recovered on Sunday, police said.Some of the bodies recovered earlier in the week have already been released to families for burial both within the Lake Kariba area and

Alibaba's Qwen has become the world's most-downloaded open AI model family, surpassing rivals from Meta and Google as its cumulative global downloads topped 3 billion, underscoring the growing reach of Chinese open-source AI among developers worldwide.A report on the state of open models published

The Chinese anti-war film Once Upon a Time in the Middle East has sparked considerable discussion on overseas social media platforms even before its international release. Its narrative perspective, distinct from many conventional Hollywood portrayals of war, has prompted some viewers to describe

Sri Lanka is accelerating the rehabilitation of small-scale irrigation infrastructure as dry weather continues to affect farming areas and authorities prepare for rains expected later in the year, local news outlet The Morning reported Sunday.The government has allocated 1 billion Sri Lankan rupees

Editor's Note:For years, the US has viewed China as a rival in Africa and sought to cast a shadow over China-Africa cooperation with misleading narratives such as the "China shock." Against this backdrop, the overseas edition of the People's Daily (PD) interviewed Lawrence Freeman (Freeman), an