CGTN covers the 2021 World Table Tennis Championships.

Table Tennis: Peace through Sport

Thursday marks Thanksgiving Day in the United States, celebrating the harvest and other blessings of the past year.

Family farm works with charities to help homeless on Thanksgiving

Honduras will hold general elections this weekend in a vote that will decide the country's elected leaders – from mayors to members of parliament, to the president – for the next four years.

Hondurans prepare for general election

Brazil has administered around 298-million doses of COVID-19 vaccine. According to Reuters, that’s enough for more than 70% of the population.

When will Brazilian children under 12 get COVID-19 vaccine approval?

Starting a business anywhere in the world today is a difficult task.

Starting a business amid a crisis

The city of Los Angeles has vowed to prevent certain tech companies from engaging in "iBuying" in the city’s housing market. 

Los Angeles vows to prevent ‘instant’ home buying

Mexico has one of the world's highest rates of people missing. Among them are a number of undocumented migrants.

Mexico’s missing migrants

Brazil reopened its border with Venezuela in June of this year, having closed it more than a year ago due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Venezuelan migrants stranded at the Brazil border

A Brazilian inventor has designed what he claims is the world's fastest tree planting machine.

Could a tree-planting machine help save the environment?

The number of rat sightings in New York City has jumped substantially this year. 

Rat sightings rise in New York

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