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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is weighing revising its COVID-19 guidelines to recommend that even fully vaccinated people wear masks in public, said Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical advisor, on Sunday.   Fauci told CNN that he has taken part in conversations about altering the guidelines, something he described as being "under active consideration."   He noted that some local areas where infection rates are surging are already urging individuals to wear masks in pu...

A petition website that demands an investigation into the US biological laboratory at Fort Detrick, Maryland, was subject to two cyberattacks from US-based hackers on Saturday, a move its operator said exposed the fear from certain forces in the United States after seeing growing support for an inquiry.   In an online statement, the Global Times newspaper, which launched the petition, said it strongly condemned the cyberattack, and that it is the right of Chinese internet users to conduct a pe...

  Chinese electric vehicle (EV) battery producer Envision AESC is looking to accelerate its expansion in Europe with an eye on growing its global market share while planning ahead for an anticipated boom in sales of new energy vehicles.   Following plans announced in late June to build a $2.4 billion battery plant to supply French carmaker Renault in northern France, the Shanghai-based company declared in July it would make another investment of 423 million pounds ($576 million) to build a gi...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, 57-year-old Long Ruijun, a professor at Lanzhou University in northwest Chinas Gansu Province, turned to online lectures to help old friends in Pakistan fight energy and food shortages.   Long used to routinely visit the country from 2016 to 2019 to share agricultural techniques and skills with experts and farmers there.   "The landscape and climate in Gansu are similar to that in Pakistan, especially in the northern region," he said. "So the agricultural experie...

-- The Hima Cultural Area in Saudi Arabia, the Great Spa Towns of Europe, the Lighthouse of Cordouan in France, the Darmstadt Artists Colony in Germany, and a selection of fresco cycles painted in the 14th century in Italys city of Padua, have been inscribed on the world heritage list.   Five cultural sites in Saudi Arabia and Europe have been inscribed on the world heritage list, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) announced on Saturday.   The decisi...

East Chinas Zhejiang Province upgraded its emergency response to Typhoon In-Fa to the highest Level I from Saturday noon, the provincial emergency management department said.   At 11 a.m. Saturday, the center of In-Fa, the sixth typhoon this year, was located about 395 km southeast of Xiangshan County in Zhejiang, with a maximum wind force of 144 km per hour, according to the provincial meteorological department.   The department expects the typhoon to move northwestward at a speed of 15 km p...

Photo taken on July 24, 2021 shows a stone Buddha head of a statue, which belongs to Cave 8 of the Tianlong Mountain Grottoes, at the Tianlong Mountain Grottoes Museum in Taiyuan, north Chinas Shanxi Province. A long-lost Buddha statue of Tianlong Mountain Grottoes made its public debut in Shanxi Province Saturday after being returned from Japan. With a history of over 1,400 years and originally stored in the eighth cave of the grottoes, the statue arrived in Beijing from Japan on Dec. 12, 2020...

More than 90 percent of Chinese people surveyed recently by the China Youth Daily said offline social games such as tabletop games will become a popular way for young people to make new friends.   Among the 1,543 people surveyed, 83.6 percent said they have met their social needs through offline games including room escape and jubensha, literally translated as "script homicide"-- a role-playing murder mystery game.   About 73.9 percent of the respondents said they believe that such games will...

-- After one year of operation, Chinas first ultra high-voltage (UHV) power superhighway for transmitting clean energy delivered 13.1 billion kWh of power from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to densely populated Henan in central China.   -- As the worlds first all-clean energy UHV power transmission project, it is a pilot project aiding Chinas pursuit of attaining carbon dioxide emissions peak before 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality before 2060.   -- The line is expected to start running at fu...

Chinas 2021 box office revenue topped 30 billion yuan (about 4.64 billion U.S. dollars) as of Saturday.   The milestone this year was reached more than a month later than in 2019, when the same figure was hit on June 22, according to data by box office tracker Maoyan.     Chinese comedy films "Hi, Mom" and "Detective Chinatown 3" lead the yearly chart, with earnings of 5.41 billion yuan and 4.52 billion yuan respectively, or 18 percent and 15 percent of the total.   "Chinese Doctors," a cin...