The 3rd Silk Road Global News Awards calls for submission

Malaysia's natural rubber production fell 4.7 percent year-on-year to 65,266 tons in the second quarter of 2026, official data showed on Thursday.

When rain started falling in Xiangyang, Hubei Province on August 11, a young girl spotted a stray cat with nowhere to hide. She held her umbrella over the cat, leaving herself exposed to the rain as she made sure it stayed dry. (Produced by Long Chuyan, Wang Ruofan and Ni Tao)

The Lianyungang-Yizheng crude oil pipeline, a key national oil and natural gas transport project, successfully commenced operations on its Lianyungang-Huai'an section on Thursday, PipeChina, the project developer, told the Global Times.

U.S. company SpaceX has begun taking orders for its Starlink satellite internet service in Vietnam, local media VnExpress reported Thursday.

Newly released wartime records from the Hailar branch of Japan's notorious Unit 731 reveal how the Japanese military disguised biological warfare personnel as conventional infantry troops to conceal secret operations, including human experimentation.The Exhibition Hall of Evidences of Crime

Malaysia recorded 90,726 live births in the second quarter of 2026, down 6.1 percent year on year, official data showed Thursday.

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has signed a State Council decree publicizing a decision to revise and repeal certain administrative regulations as the country's landmark Ecological and Environmental Code is set to take effect on Saturday.

"More than 80 years have passed, and only now are we beginning to realize how much Japan still hasn't told us," said Lim Shao Bin, a Singaporean historian who has spent decades tracing Japan's biological warfare activities in Southeast Asia, in a recent interview with Xinhua.