Myanmar President U Thein Sein has assured China that his country will continue to pursue a friendly policy towards Beijing and advance ties between the two countries. Talking to visiting Fan Changlong, vice chairman of China's central military commission, in the capital, the president said Myanmar would continue to pursue a friendly policy toward Beijing and make unremitting efforts to push ...
Experts urge India and China to clearly define Line of Actual Control
Experts on Tuesday urged both India and China to define the Line of Actual Control in wake of the recent incursions on the boundary between the two countries. Srikanth Kondapalli, a professor of Chinese studies Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), said that the governments of both the countries need to clearly define the LAC. "The Line of Actual Control has not been defined. The current efforts ...
Chinese army develops online military game
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has developed an online military game featuring an aircraft carrier and the Diaoyu islands. The game, Mission of HonoUr, involves a soldier named Qiangjun who boards China's first aircraft carrier Liaoning with his comrades and fights invaders in military bases on the Diaoyu Islands, according to a report by the Shanghai-based Jiefang Daily. The first ...
Five-year ban on government building construction in China
As part of an ongoing frugality campaign, the Chinese government Tuesday imposed a five-year-ban on constructing new government buildings. A directive, issued jointly by the general office of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the general office of the State Council, has called for an across-the-board halt to constructing any new government buildings for next five years, ...
GlaxoSmithKline admits China executives bribed doctors for boosting sales
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK ) has acknowledged that some senior employees in the firm were allegedly involved in a bribing scandal of doctors prescribing the firm's drugs in China. According to the BBC, senior executives in GSK's China office appeared to have been using travel agencies to bribe government officials, doctors and hospitals in order to boost sales and prices of their drugs. GSK is now ...
Two-day talks with China will not deal with boundary issues MEA
After three incidents of Chinese incursions over the past five days along the India-China border, joint secretaries of India and China are taking part in a two-day meeting of the Working Mechanism for Consultation and Coordination on India-China Border Affairs to discuss issues. External Affairs Ministry spokesperson Syed Akbaruddin told reporters here today that the talks would not deal with ...
Geese better at fighting crime than dogs
Gaggles of geese are helping Chinese police force fight crime, it has been claimed. The winged warriors are being preferred over dogs as the animal of assistance in the province of Xinjiang, the New York Daily News reported. According to China police bosses, the tough birds are more reliable than canines in tackling lawlessness and are also "harder" for criminals to neutralize than a single ...
China drought leaves 380000 short of drinking water
A drought since early July has left 384,000 people short of drinking water in central China's Hunan Province, the provincial drought relief headquarters said Tuesday. Eighty-seven counties of 12 cities and prefectures in the province have been affected by the drought, with about 3.9 million mu (260,000 hectares) of crops damaged and 216,000 heads of livestock short of water, according to the ...
Woman killed in Beijing knife attack
A knife attack in a retail store in Beijing has left a woman dead and three other people injured, police said. The woman died after hospital treatment failed, Xinhua cited the Beijing Public Security Bureau as saying. The suspect, a Beijing resident surnamed Wang who was born in 1963, had a history of mental illness. He was admitted to a local psychiatric hospital for treatment in September ...
Chinas Ex-leader Nothing to Fear from Disputes with US
BEIJING Former Chinese president Jiang Zemin, who broke China out of diplomatic isolation in the post-Tiananmen era, has made a rare return to public life, saying that his country should not fear disputes with Washington and that honest dialogue is needed. Ties between the world's two largest economies have been strained of late by U.S. accusations of Chinese hacking attacks, and ...
China quake toll rises to 89
The death toll in the 6.6-magnitude earthquake that hit northwest China's Gansu province has climbed to 89, officials said. Till 6 p.m. Monday, 87 people in Dingxi city and two in the neighbouring city of Longnan were confirmed killed in the quake that jolted the border of Minxian and Zhangxian counties, Xinhua reported the Dingxi municipal government as saying. Minxian reported the bulk of ...
Ban expresses condolences following deadly earthquake in north-west China
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed his deepest condolences following the earthquake that struck China?s north-west Gansu province and resulted in numerous deaths and injuries. ';Our thoughts are with the families of victims and wounded people,'; Mr. ...
Europe stocks climb on US data China stimulus hope
LONDON (AFP) - European equities advanced on Tuesday after a string of US companies posted better-than-expected profits and Asian powerhouse China hinted it could adopt stimulus measures to prevent a sharp economic slowdown, dealers said.Markets were also boosted by unexpectedly weak housing data from the United States which increased the likelihood the Federal Reserve would keep its stimulus ...
Vladimir Putin Sends Condolences to China after Earthquake
3 de julio de 2013, 11:39 Moscow, Jul 23 (Prensa Latina) The Russian President Vladimir Putin, conveyed today condolences to his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, by the earthquake in Gansu province, leaving so far nearly 100 deaths and over a thousand injured. Putin also expressed the willigness of his country to send aid after the earthquake of 6.6 degrees on the Richter scale occurred ...
Shanghai police subpoena AstraZeneca employee
AstraZeneca has become the latest major international pharmaceutical firm involved in a police investigation in China, as media reports said Tuesday that a sales representative from the UK-based company has been subpoenaed by the Shanghai police for investigation.The company confirmed it was visited by Shanghai police Monday night and a sales representative was subpoenaed to "cooperate with ...
Beijing suspends knife sales
Several supermarkets in Beijing have removed knives from their shelves on Tuesday, after a stabbing in a supermarket on Monday left one woman dead and three people injured."We had a call from the company's North China regional headquarters yesterday, informing us that we can't sell knives under orders from the police," the head of a Carrefour store in the Wangjing area of ...
Financial data of Chinese cities deeply opaque says academic report
The transparency of financial information disclosed by city governments in China is still poor, according to the latest report on 285 cities and four municipalities.Only 46 cities and municipalities gained a score of over 100 points on a 400-point assessment system, shows the report by a research group at Tsinghua University.Three cities, including Baicheng, Jilin Province, Tongren, Guizhou ...
Diageo makes deal to expand more in China
Diageo, the world's biggest spirits group, has taken a controlling stake in China's liquor company Shuijingfang, inves?ting further in a key market that has shown signs of slowdown.The British group said Tuesday it had acquired 100 percent of a holding company which would increase its ownership of the Shanghai-listed firm from 21 percent to 39.7 percent in a deal worth 233 million ...
Myanmar president meets Chinese senior military official
Fan Changlong , in the Myanmar capital of Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday.U Thein Sein said Fan's choice of Myanmar as his first foreign trip after he took up the post shows the friendly ties between the two countries and the two armed forces.Noting that Myanmar-China "paukphaw" (fraternal) friendship is long-standing and deep in the hearts of the people, he said enhancement of the ...
Chinese VP calls for patriotism among HK youth
Li Yuanchao on Tuesday urged youth from Hong Kong to support the principle of "one country, two systems" and inherit patriotic traditions.Li made the remarks while meeting nearly 1,000 youth representatives from Hong Kong who are visiting the mainland as part of an activity aimed to help them understand the country better.Li said it is helpful for Hong Kong's young people to learn ...
China Southern moves up 787 debut
China Southern Airlines has pushed forward its deployment of the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft it will be flying on its Guangzhou-Auckland route, expanding both cargo capacity and passenger numbers, the airline announced Tuesday. The airline will begin flying the Dreamliner on the direct route from October 28, ahead of the previously announced debut of December 4, said the airline in a ...
China-ASEAN trade to reach $500b by 2015 ministry says
Bilateral trade between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will reach $500 billion in 2015, Chinese Vice Minister of Commerce Gao Yan said at a press conference Tuesday.According to ...
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