Recipe for Life
January 16, 2018

Recipe for Life

Full Frame’s Recipe for Life segment gives new meaning to “food for thought!” Join CGTN’s Asieh Namdar as she meets inspirational people from diverse backgrounds and learns to make dishes that hold a special significance for her guests.

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Cuban Millennials
December 25, 2017

Cuba Millennials

These are challenging times for Cuban millennials: balancing the system they grew up with while exploring new prospects for the future. In a CGTN special series, correspondent Michael Voss speaks to a range of young Cubans from all walks of life.

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Roberto Canessa
December 20, 2017

Survivor Roberto Canessa relives 1972 plane crash in the Andes

On December 21, 1972, two members of a rugby team from Uruguay – who had been walking through the snow-capped Andes mountains in search of civilization – encountered a shepherd. Forty-five years later, survivor Roberto Canessa remembers their agonizing ordeal for “Americas Now.”

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PERU: Making the grade
December 11, 2017

Education in Peru: Making the grade

In this five-part series, CGTN’s Dan Collyns zeroes in on Peru and the education issues facing Latin America. As the region’s youth are the first generation more likely to grow up middle class than in poverty, how will education help or hinder their dreams?

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CGTN DIGITAL: 2017 in review
December 4, 2017

CGTN DIGITAL: 2017 in review

As 2017 comes to a close, it’s easy to forget many moments that shaped this past year. Politics, war, technology, disasters, sporting triumphs and our ever changing culture – CGTN Digital shares highlights from the year that was.

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Movie Theater
November 22, 2017

Hollywood reboots and remakes past big box office movies

Movie remakes are big business. Hollywood can’t get enough of bringing the old ones back. Whether it’s totally overhauling (or completely copying the original), it’s a guaranteed way of getting people in movie theaters and generating publicity.

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Donald Trump
November 9, 2017

Who are the top people advising Trump on foreign policy

  Rex Tillerson  U.S. Secretary of State. Tillerson is a former CEO of ExxonMobil. Tillerson entered the Trump administration with no previous political experience. He supports tougher sanctions on the DPRK. He has been sharply critical of some Chinese policies, but he is a pragmatist […]

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November 5, 2017

Timeline: China-US relations

Trace diplomatic relations between China and the United States since 1971 when President Richard Nixon announced he would visit the People’s Republic of China.

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October 25, 2017

What if the US had China’s bullet trains?

The U.S. lags far behind other nations when it comes to adopting high-speed rail. See what a high-speed rail network could do if it had trains that run as fast as China’s — which currently has the world’s fastest trains.

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October 24, 2017

Women accused in Kim Jong Nam murder brought back to Kuala Lumpur airport

It’s the murder trial that has captured the attention of Malaysia and the world. The latest drama didn’t come from the courtroom, but from the scene of the crime. The two women charged with killing the half-brother of DPRK leader Kim Jong Un were taken back to Kuala Lumpur’s airport. CGTN’s Rian Maelzer followed along.

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October 18, 2017

How Chinese leaders get elected?

Every five years, the Chinese Communist Party holds a ‘party congress’ when it clicks the ‘refresh button’ on itself.

The party elects a new generation of senior leaders called the Politburo Standing Committee.

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Why China ended its one-child policy
October 16, 2017

Why China ended its one-child policy

In 2015, the party reversed its longstanding one-child policy—one of many reforms enacted during Xi Jinping’s first five years as General Secretary. See why China ended its one-child policy.

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With this view, Cassini captured one of its last looks at Saturn and its main rings from a distance. The Saturn system has been Cassini's home for 13 years, but that journey is nearing its end.
September 15, 2017

PHOTOS: Cassini’s last views of Saturn

Following a remarkable journey of 20 years, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft disintegrated in the skies above Saturn on Friday in a final blaze of cosmic glory. Here are some of the final images Cassini shared with Earth before its final descent.

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September 4, 2017

This is what BRICS nations look like

BRICS nations represent close to a quarter of the world’s nominal GDP. Here’s a look at data covering a range of measurements that show the similarities and differences among BRICS nations.

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Harvey Chemical Plant
August 31, 2017

Houston sees glimmer of hope after Harvey but threats loom

Harvey’s floodwaters started dropping across much of the Houston area and the storm weakened slightly Wednesday but major dangers remained for the U.S. Gulf Coast area, including the threat of an explosion at a stricken Texas chemical plant and major flooding further east near the Texas-Louisiana line.

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