Tag Archives: China

Thursday, 11 May 2017 SHANGHAI – 8 people were killed when an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.5 struck in China’s northwest Xinjiang region on Thursday. 11 people were also injured. The China Earthquake Administration (CEA) said the quake occurred in the remote Taxkorgan County area of Kashgar Prefecture at a …

Thursday, 11 May 2017 KYODO: Japan is stepping up efforts to win a Malaysia-Singapore high-speed railway project by sending a high-level mission to Kuala Lumpur to campaign for the adoption of the shinkansen bullet train system. During a recent high-speed rail symposium in the Malaysian capital, Japanese Land, Infrastructure, Transport …

Monday, 8 May 2017 Beijing – A gas leak has killed at least 18 people working in a coal mine in central China’s Hunan province. Another 37 miners were rescued and taken to a hospital for treatment following Sunday’s accident at the Jilinqiao mine in Huangfengqiao township. Investigators are testing …

Monday, 8 May 2017 Russia has blocked access to Chinese social media app WeChat, developed by Tencent Holdings, for failing to give its contact details to the Russian communications watchdog. Access to China’s most popular social media platform has been restricted since 4 May, according to information posted on the …

Monday, 8 May 2017 Shanghai: Shanghai will introduce a lottery system for sales of new residential projects as demand is overtaking supply, according to a circular of the city’s housing authorities. The lottery system will guarantee “transparent and fair distribution” of units and is part of the city’s measures to …

Saturday, 6 May 2017 A Chinese researcher has put his health on the line by passing 71,000 volts of static electricity through his own body in an experiment. Liu Shanghe is an academic at the Chinese Academy of Engineering and one of the aims of the experiment was to test …

Saturday, 6 May 2017 BEIJING : China has culled 80,000 chickens in the country’s north after detecting an outbreak of H7N9 bird flu on a farm of layer hens, said the agriculture ministry on Friday. 5,000 hens on the farm in Xingtai in Hebei province died in late April, said …

Saturday, 6 May 2017 SEOUL: North Korea on Friday accused the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and South Korea’s intelligence service of a plot to attack its “supreme leadership” with a bio-chemical weapon and said such a “pipe-dream” could never succeed. Tension on the Korean peninsula has been high for weeks, …

Friday, 5 May 2017 Shanghai: The first large made-in-China passenger plane took off on its maiden test flight on Friday, marking a key milestone on the country’s ambitious journey to compete with the world’s leading aircraft makers. The narrow-body C919 jet – white with green and blue stripes – soared …

Thursday, 4 May 2017 Beijing – A major dust storm engulfed northern China and Beijing on Thursday, prompting authorities to cancel dozens of flights and urge children and the elderly to stay indoors. Buildings were shrouded by the greyish haze in the capital while residents who ventured out covered their …