That smiling man in the rust-colored robe handing you a medallion may not be upholding the precepts of the Buddha.
Online shoppers in China are cashing in on falls in the British pound to buy expensive foreign luxury goods after the UK voted to leave the European Union.
An arbitration court hearing the dispute between China and the Philippines over the South China Sea said on Wednesday that it will deliver its decision on July 12.
That the barbarity took place during the holy month of Ramadan may make it particularly unacceptable to the Islamic community.
China "strongly condemns" the terror attack in an airport in Istanbul on Tuesday evening, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said in a news conference on Wednesday.
European Council President Donald Tusk has warned that lower growth in the UK due to Brexit may lead to a "negative spillover all over the world."
The European Commission is to step up its collaboration with China on emissions trading, with a new €10 million EUR (more than 70 million yuan) cooperation project, according to the Delegation of the European Union to China announced on Wednesday.
The successor to the current British Prime Minister David Cameron is expected to be revealed on Sept 9, a week later than originally planned.
A small boy was found alive on Friday after spending six days in a remote mountainous area in Hokkaido, northern Japan, according to local police and search and rescue officials.
The first phase of a major police operation launched on Tuesday morning to clear Greece's largest makeshift refugee camp at Idomeni crossing on the Greece-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia border ended by sunset without problems, according to Greek officials.
Planning and Budget Minister Romero Juca later announced his decision to take a leave from office to reduce the repercussion.
The EgyptAir jet that disappeared last week did not show technical problems before taking off from Paris, sources within the Egyptian investigation committee said late on Tuesday.