Since its launch, Chinese startup DeepSeek has attracted worldwide attention for its comparatively low cost and advanced reasoning capabilities. However, more and more researchers have begun to ...

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As U.S. President Donald Trump declared an energy emergency in the United States and signed a sweeping executive order to expand oil and gas drilling, VOA’s Russian Service spoke to experts who ...

Due to the dispute between the governments of Colombia and the United States, appointments for thousands of visa applicants at the US embassy in Bogota have been suspended. What is the situation ...

Across China, K-12 schools are making students study more than 16 hours a day, six days a week in a phenomenon called 611. Some schools allow students only a half day off per month. Chinese ...

China's National Radio and Television Administration released a new "classified and tiered review" system to tighten censorship on microdramas on Feb. 5. Any microdrama themed at "politics ...

President Vladimir Putin openly admits that demographics present Russia with one of its most serious challenges. U.S. experts believe that even without taking into account the effects of the war ...

In mid-January, a wave of U.S. users migrated to China’s platform Xiaohongshu due to the TikTok ban, engaging in an unexpected “cost-of-living comparison” with Chinese users. Despite higher ...

By VOA Persian FILE - This undated photo of Pakhshan Azizi circulated on social media on July 24, 2024. The Iranian Kurdish civil activist has been sentenced to death.

U.S. President Donald Trump has vowed to slap a 10% tariff hike on Chinese imports, possibly starting February 1. He's also thrown a lifeline to TikTok by delaying its legal ban until early April ...

The multibillion-dollar Stargate Project announced by U.S. President Donald Trump will focus on building data centers with the goal of turning the U.S. into a computing power empire, according to ...