Insight

The NDAA chill to US-China Strategic Ties

October 22, 2015

Despite progress, widespread hunger persists

Some encouraging news on the state of global hunger from the U.S.-based International Food Policy Research Institute.

October 21, 2015

The fight to bring child trafficking victims home

According to the most recent United Nations report on Global Human Trafficking, one out of every three victims are children. Most of them are girls. Many brought into a life of forced sexual slavery and prostitution.

October 20, 2015

Rio says homelessness solution will last beyond Olympics

The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro plans to ramp up efforts to help its homeless population. The city has less than a year to go before it hosts the Olympics.

October 19, 2015

Global unemployment still high among the young

The world is still recovering from the economic meltdown of a few years ago. In many places, unemployment rates have recovered.

October 16, 2015

How one town rose from poverty

Tremendous changes have taken place over the past few years in a small town named Yina in southwest China’s Guizhou province. A string of effective and targeted measures were taken to lift the people there out of poverty.

October 14, 2015

ISIL’s destruction of artifacts considered cultural genocide

As the militant group ISIL continues to kill and maim through Syria and Iraq, the group has also been systematically demolishing heritage sites and objects dating back thousands of years.

October 13, 2015

India implements new pollution control measures

Officials in India have new plans to curb pollution in New Delhi – ranked by the World Health Organization as the most polluted city in the world.

October 12, 2015

Study: Cigarettes on pace to kill 1 in 3 Chinese men

Researchers revealed startling findings in a pair of articles about the toll cigarettes are taking on public health. If current trends continue, they say cigarettes will kill one in three men in the decades to come.

October 9, 2015

Global life expectancy increases, elderly staying more active

The global average life expectancy has doubled to around 70 years since 1900. Many people are remaining active much later in life with no intentions of slowing down.

October 7, 2015

World Bank: Less than 10% of world lives in extreme poverty

The World Bank said that for the first time, the number of people living in extreme poverty has fallen to fewer than 1 in 10. CCTV’s Jessica Stone has Insight.

October 6, 2015

China and US plan to cut coal emissions

It’s called King Coal, and for good reason: coal is the most widely used primary fuel in the world. Despite its environmental cost, it remains the cheapest option, especially for developing countries.

October 5, 2015

One Belt One Road: From broad economic impacts to personal relationships

While the leadership of the world talk of grand economic designs, there’s another, quieter revolution underway in China’s “One Belt, One Road” initiative. CCTV America’s Richard Bestic reports from the United Kingdom on a wave of young interns heading out to China’s major cities to […]

October 2, 2015

Chinese President: Small nations should have a bigger voice

At the U.N. last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping said the small countries of the world should have more influence over world affairs.

September 30, 2015

Legal cases against suspects in missing Mexico students case

Hundreds of legal cases center on those allegedly responsible for last year’s disappearance of 43 students in Mexico.

September 24, 2015

Sunnylands Summit as informal meeting between Xi and Obama

The state visit to the US by Chinese President Xi Jinping is his first trip back to the west coast since June 2013. That’s when Xi and President Obama met at the Sunnylands Summit in Southern California.

September 23, 2015

The China-Hollywood connection

There’s no question that the amount of Chinese movie goers are multiplying. Box office totals are second only to the U.S., but China is catching up fast.

September 22, 2015

Hard times for largest Chinatown in the US

The largest Chinatown in the United States is in San Francisco, spanning nearly 30 blocks. It’s also the country’s first Chinatown.

September 18, 2015

Traffic to cost Philippines over $100mn a day by 2030

As the economy in the Philippines grows, more people there seem to be able to afford cars.

September 16, 2015

Cuba’s Raul Castro to address UN General Assembly to end embargo

Cuban President Raul Castro will soon be heading to the United States to address the United Nations General Assembly. It’s the first time he’s been there. He’s expected to use his speech to put more pressure on the U.S. to end its decades-old embargo on […]

September 15, 2015

Studies suggest refugees may provide economic benefits

Could refugees actually be economically good for a country’s economy? Could they actually add to a country’s GDP, rather than subtract from it?

September 11, 2015

Storm patterns wildly different for Pacific and Atlantic

This is the peak week for hurricane season in the United States. While Pacific Ocean neighbors have suffered through an awful year of punishing typhoons, the Atlantic hurricane season remains mild.

September 10, 2015

Russia says it sent military experts to Syria to assist al-Assad forces

Russia’s Foreign Ministry is also disclosing for the first time that Russian military experts are now on the ground in Syria, assisting President Bashar al Assad’s government forces however it is also denying U.S. charges that it’s expanding military aid to Syria. This follows confirmation […]

September 9, 2015

Colombia makes filmmakers an offer they can’t refuse

Colombia is looking towards the entertainment industry to help boost its economy. More film productions than ever are being staged in the South American nation and it mostly comes down to money.

September 4, 2015

Cruise industry testing voluntourism model

Come vacation time, more and more travelers are swapping out their bathing suits and golf clubs for pencils and construction tools.

September 3, 2015

China to cut 300,000 People’s Liberation Army troops

More than 80 percent of the military assets China showed off during the parade were being seen in public for the very first time. Equally noteworthy was a surprise announcement from President Xi who said that 300,000 troops will be cut from the People’s Liberation […]

September 1, 2015

Inside the fight against ISIL in Iraq

ISIL is not just destroying historic sites. The group is also taking prisoners, and sometimes torturing and killing them on camera. Amid the fight against ISIL, what happens when ISIL fighters themselves are caught?

August 28, 2015

Spirit of Liulaozhuang Company: Fighting to the end

During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, millions of Chinese soldiers sacrificed their lives in 1943. Among them were 82 brave members of Liulaozhuang Company.

August 28, 2015

NASA data shows sea levels rising at faster rate

According to NASA scientists and newly released satellite data, global sea levels have risen by eight centimeters (or about three inches) in the past 23 years. But they’re not rising at the same rate everywhere.

August 26, 2015

Chinese teaching methods shock British schoolchildren

Chinese teaching methods came as a shock to the class of British schoolchildren. Long days, strict discipline and listening without question.

August 25, 2015

Race to Hungarian border before fence is built

CCTV America’s Kate Parkinson goes on patrol with police at the Serbia-Hungary frontier, in the second of our special series of reports on Europe’s refugee crisis.

August 20, 2015

Iraq’s government encourages more market competition

With a single aircraft, Fly Baghdad is now in business. It’s the first privately-owned budget airline in Iraq. If things go well, Fly Baghdad could help set an example that could help get Iraq’s economy off the ground.

August 18, 2015

Sales of non-GMO food surging worldwide

Some of the latest breakthroughs in food have to do with genetic modifications. While there may be benefits, critics worry there are serious risks.

August 15, 2015

Japanese PM Shinzo Abe stops short of new WWII apology

This was the moment most foreign and Japanese media had been waiting for. The content of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s statement, for the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II.

August 13, 2015

US turns drug war focus onto the Pacific Ocean

Countries around the world are engaged in a fight against drugs for various reasons, especially in Latin America and the United States.

August 10, 2015

Medellin transforms image from drug trafficking city to innovator

Medellin, Colombia has gone having notoriety as the home of Pablo Escobar to the “Innovative City of the Year.” The city’s makeover has been largely attributed to innovative urbanism that brings large-scale public works to the city’s underprivileged neighborhoods.

August 4, 2015

Cuba’s well known healthcare system

The Cuban healthcare system is doing well, which might come to a surprise to many around the world.

August 3, 2015

Internet issues challenge Cuba business

Having limited access to the Internet presents major obstacles to young entrepreneurs. But, they’ve learned to adjust.

July 29, 2015

US leads the world in student loan debt

According to various studies, college students in the United States pay the most tuition. That’s leading to a total student loan debt burden at more than a trillion dollars. And it’s going up.

July 28, 2015

#BlackTwitter serves as cultural identity for community

#BlackTwitter is a virtual community that has developed within the Twitter social network. The focus of this online community is to give internet users a platform to openly discuss social and political issues of interest to the black community.

July 24, 2015

China’s online sales of meds increase

E-commerce has taken China by storm, but it isn’t just consumer products that are being sold online. Online sales of medicines are rising and offering customers convenience.

July 22, 2015

UN: 20 million Mexican children living in poverty

The latest United Nations report on child poverty finds a staggering 600 million children worldwide living on less than a dollar a day. Over 20 million of them live in Mexico, though Mexican officials say the true number there is much smaller. Fighting child poverty […]

July 21, 2015

Nigerian President visits Washington

President Buhari is in the midst of a four-day visit to the United States. It’s the latest step on his path to chart a new course for Nigeria, one that’s free of corruption and terrorism.

July 17, 2015

China taps into world’s wine industry

China has the world’s second largest area for growing wine after Spain. China’s environment provides fertile ground for its growing wine industry.

July 17, 2015

Four Americans try Chinese liquor for the first time

What happens when you mix four Americans and three Chinese liquors? To answer that, three CCTV America employees took an an epicurean cocktail tour of three Chinese liquors, guided by bar manager Robin Miller at Casa Luca restaurant. All four were new to the spirits.

July 16, 2015

Atomic bomb first tested 70 years ago

Seventy years ago, on the morning of July 16, 1945, the U.S. conducted its first atomic bomb test. Code named “Trinity”, the plutonium bomb test took place at a U.S. Air Force base in the state of New Mexico.

July 16, 2015

Dominican Republic immigration policy impact on Haitians

The Caribbean island of Hispaniola is divided into two sovereign countries: Dominican Republic and Haiti. Haiti has a history of extreme poverty and a lack of infrastructure and development.

July 14, 2015

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft flies past Pluto

Imagine visiting a place no one has been to before, a place no one has ever seen up close. Well, a NASA spacecraft is about to make a close encounter with just such a place at the very edge of our Solar System: Pluto.

July 13, 2015

Earth losing forests at a frightening rate

July 9, 2015

Number of Chinese students in the US declines slightly

A huge wave of Chinese students have come to the U.S. to attend universities, and Chinese students comprise a third of total international graduate students in the U.S. However, the trend may be changing. In recent years, the number of Chinese students applying to U.S. […]

July 7, 2015

China among top contributors in U.N. peacekeeping operations

Since 1948, the United Nations has launched 71 peacekeeping operations and there are currently 16 underway today across 20 countries. China is among the top ten nations sending peacekeepers around the world.

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