In the bustling southern province of Guangdong, Party Secretary Wang Yang is making a name for himself as an apparent reformer open to new ways of doing things.
President Obama on Sunday said NATO’s defense capabilities and Afghanistan would be the primary focus of meetings among world leaders at the NATO Summit held in Chicago [...]
President Barack Obama and G8 leaders were upbeat about their summit meetings at Camp David saying they were encouraged by their talks on Iran, Syria and particularly, Europe [...]
Chinese leader Hu Jintao has agreed to have public security chief Zhou Yongkang investigated, The Epoch Times has learned from well-placed sources in Beijing.
A student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen protests in Beijing approached the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C. on Friday in a bid to be allowed to return to China. He was [...]
Pakistan on Sunday announced it will temporarily block the microblogging website Twitter because it had not remove material considered blasphemous to Islam.
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa announced that his former rival, the country’s former army head, Sarath Fonseka, will be released from prison on Monday.
Skies in the western United States, China, and Japan will be graced by a rare and beautiful celestial phenomenon this weekend: an annular solar eclipse.
Google Inc. said Saturday that Chinese antitrust and competition authorities have cleared Google’s move to purchase Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion.
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Google has agreed to pay a fine of $25,000 for impeding an Federal Communications Commission investigation into Googles popular “Street View” program that has been [...]
Lai Changxing, the most-wanted man in China and a highly successful smuggler, was sentenced to life in prison in what analysts say was part of a deliberate political strategy.
Following his arrival in the U.S., Chen Guangcheng, his wife and their two children were taken to his New York University’s residence on Mercer Street in lower Manhattan at [...]
When the derelict Japanese ghost boat appeared on the U.S. West Coast earlier this year, it was a touching reminder of the tragic loss Japan had endured from the devastating [...]
Adam Charles leads a life that is on the surface like most other peoples’. He is probably happier than most though, because he has a strong sense of purpose: he is a [...]
According to notes on the wall of one of the exhibition rooms at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC), Francis Bacon, writing in 1620 said: “Now it is an easy passage for [...]
By Justina Reichel/Epoch Times Staff Categories:National
Do you have a will? If you answered no, you join the ranks of more than half of Canadian adults (56 percent) who haven’t completed their last will and testament, according [...]