Robert F. Smith is the richest African-American man in the United States and is valued at over $4 billion. This weekend, the known philanthropist promised to relieve the student loan debt of the 2019 Morehouse College graduating class.

CGTN’s Asieh Namdar recently attended a meeting with Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif. Here’s what he said.

CGTN’s Chanlee Saray-Yim describes Cambodian New Year celebrations in Silver Spring, Maryland.

A private security firm has released an audio tape of Iran’s seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz. While the British Government discusses its next move – Iran holds the tankers 23-member crew and an Iranian flag flies ontop.

Delivering mail in Rio de Janeiro’s slums, or ‘favelas’ as they are known in Brazil, is harder than one can imagine. They are informal neighborhoods that the government has never mapped. But entrepreneurs found a solution to provide this service.

The United Nations is taking action against the rise of hate speech around the world.

2019 is on track to be a record year for unicorns founded by at least one woman. Last year there were a record 12 of them globally. Less than half the way into this year, there were ten of them.

Tibetan papermaking has a history of over a thousand years. The tradition is passed down through generations.

France is something of a football anomaly. The national team won its second World Cup just last year and France just hosted a Women’s World Cup that smashed viewing records.

It may look like a steam bath, but the temperature in one chamber dips to negative 100 degrees Celsius.

The wall’s Badaling section outside Beijing is the most popular, attracting 10 million visitors last year. To ease the strain, local authorities recently implemented a new daily cap of 65,000 people.

It’s one of the most popular trends on Chinese social media — people being photographed on the street.

As the impact of artificial intelligence becomes more visible in the tech world, the global race to develop AI is intensifying.

During the past four decades, the world has witnessed China’s transformation – a swift economic rise, the uplifting of hundreds of millions out of poverty, and an opening up to the rest of the world.

We’re entering a new epoch, says global strategy adviser and author Parag Khanna. We are now in what Khanna calls the “Asian Century.” With 4.5 billion people, Asia is the most populous continent, making the world 60 percent Asian. The new Asian system taking shape […]

In Peru, the potato was cultivated during the Inca Empire for thousands of years. Today it’s grown almost everywhere and considered a top food staple along with rice, corn and wheat. Dan Collyns reports from the Sacred Valley of the Incas.

In Colombia, one community of former guerrillas is using the skills they acquired in the jungle as tailors – making uniforms and tents – to launch a new enterprise. And their business is taking off. Our Game Changer is Andres Zuluaga.

Coming in all shapes and sizes, party guests take turns hitting the pinata with a stick in order to break it open and grab the candies and gifts hidden inside. Meet our Urban Voice, Dalton Ramirez.