Tag Archives: China

Monday, 13 March 2017   7 years after Google pulled its search engine out of mainland China over a disagreement on censorship directives, the information giant is negotiating with Beijing to make its comeback to the world’s biggest internet market. Google is currently not available in the country, which boasts …

Saturday, 11 March 2017   BEIJING: More than 20,000 Myanmar refugees have entered China, fleeing areas along the border after violent clashes broke out between the south east Asian country’s army and ethnic rebels this week, Beijing said. Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China’s foreign ministry, said at a regular …

Wednesday, 8 March 2017   China is making a new-generation manned spaceship which rivals that of world-leading space powers, a space mission expert said. “Among the next generation of manned spaceships some foreign countries are developing, only the Orion spacecraft of the US can carry out a moon landing mission,” …

Wednesday, 8 March 2017   Beijing is listed as the billionaire capital of the world for the second year running, ahead of New York, and followed by Hong Kong and Shenzhen, according to the latest findings in the Hurun Global Rich List 2017 released on Tuesday. Bill Gates remains the …

Wednesday, 8 March 2017 US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit Beijing on 18 March to discuss China-US relations and multilateral issues, the State Department announced on Tuesday. In his maiden trip to Asia since taking the job as US President Donald Trump’s top diplomat about a month ago, …

Tuesday, 7 March 2017   In Southwest China, an effort is getting underway to restore one of the world’s biggest Buddhist statues. According to the cultural authorities of Chongqing municipality, the eight-year project will fully assess the colossal artifact and bring back its former grandeur. The statue, measuring 31 meters …

Monday, 6 March 2017   ZHENGZHOU: New evidence has emerged that prehistoric hominids in northern China might have been hybrids of the indigenous population and Europeans, challenging the popular view of humankind’s African origin. Human cranial fossil remains from 105,000 to 125,000 years ago, found in Xuchang in Central China’s …

Friday, 3 March 2017   BEIJING – A new Chinese cruise ship has embarked on its maiden voyage to the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, the latest effort by Beijing to bolster its claims in the strategic waterway. The Changle Princess sailed from Sanya on the southern …

Wednesday, 1 March 2017 Shanghai – Shanghai widened its ban on public smoking Wednesday as China’s biggest city steps up efforts to stub out the massive health threat despite conflicts of interest with the state-owned tobacco industry. Nearly a quarter of adults in the commercial hub of 24 million people …

Wednesday, 1 March 2017 SHANGHAI – An undisclosed buyer has placed the largest overseas order for China’s home-developed military drones in a boost for the Chinese arms industry’s efforts to increase export volumes. The order for the Wing Loong II was placed before the next-generation unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) successfully …