Tag: China
Fire kills 38 in old people’s home
Chinese media reports on Tuesday in Beijing that more than 38 people have died in a fire outbreak that occurred…
Eriksson, Cannavaro cash lifts football hope in China
China’s football season kicks off this week with hopes of a resurgence for the beautiful game after former England boss…
20,000 Nigerians got visas to China in 2014 – Envoy
Liu Kan, Consul-General of the People’s Republic of China’s Consulate-General in Lagos, on Monday said that about 20,000 Nigerians were…
China Publicly Humiliates Imams
In another crackdown on religious freedoms, China has forced the imams of eastern Muslim majority district of Xinjiang to dance…
Chinese families protest MH370 deaths statement in Malaysia
Chinese relatives of those on board missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 protested outside the carrier’s office on Thursday, demanding Malaysia…
Alibaba uses drones to deliver tea in China
Echoing US online retailer Amazon, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on Wednesday tested a drone delivery service, promising to whisk ginger…
China’s Wang buys 20% of Atletico Madrid for $52m
Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin bought a 20 percent stake in Spanish league champions Atletico Madrid on Wednesday, his company announced,…
Jaycee Chan gets six months jail term for drugs
The son of kung fu star Jackie Chan admitted drugs offences on Friday and was sentenced to six months in…
Jackie Chan’s son on trial for drugs in China
The son of kung fu star Jackie Chan went on trial on drugs charges in Beijing on Friday, a court…
China cleavage censorship angers the public
Chinese censors should pay more attention to public opinion, a state-run newspaper argued Wednesday, after an online backlash over the…
Runaway N. Korean soldier kills four Chinese
A North Korean believed to be a runaway soldier killed four Chinese citizens during a robbery after he crossed the…
Cai Mingzhao appointed head of Xinhua news agency
China has appointed a top official of the ruling party’s propaganda department as president of the Xinhua news agency, the…
China New Year stampede victims mainly young women
China on Friday mourned the 36 dead from a New Year’s Eve crush on Shanghai’s famed waterfront, as the city…
10 killed, 4 injured in scaffold collapse
Ten people were killed and four injured when a scaffold collapsed at a Beijing school on Monday, state media reported.…
China man wants $2.4mn for wrongful death sentence
A Chinese man who was freed after six years on death row following a wrongful murder conviction is seeking $2.4…
China connects remote Xinjiang with high speed train
China tied the restive far-western region of Xinjiang closer to the rest of the country Friday, opening a high-speed rail…
Chinese woman fined $400m, jailed 20 years for corruption
A Chinese businesswoman was fined $400 million and given a 20-year prison sentence Tuesday after she was found guilty of…
Chinese passengers who attacked plane crew are ‘barbarians’
Chinese state-run media branded four unruly air passengers “barbarians” Monday after they scalded an air hostess and threatened to blow…
Chinese govt finds teenager innocent after execution
A Chinese teenager executed after being convicted of murder and rape 18 years ago was declared innocent by a court…
Corruption on rise in Turkey, China
Corruption is feared to be worsening in China, Turkey and other fast-growing economies, an anti-graft watchdog warned Wednesday, also urging…
China will not go to war for N.Korea
China will not step in to save neighbouring North Korea if the Pyongyang regime collapses or starts a war, a…
China says nearly 500,000 living with HIV
The World Health Organization issued a call to action to China Monday over HIV/AIDS as government figures said nearly half…
Nigeria Awards China $12b Railway Contract
China Railway Construction Corp has signed a deal worth nearly $12 billion with Nigeria to build a railway along the…
Eriksson set for $6m contract in China
Former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson is poised to land his second big-money contract in the Chinese Super League (CSL) after…
160 Chinese health workers in Liberia to fight Ebola
A large team of Chinese health workers arrived in Liberia to boost the Ebola fight as a US-based doctor infected…
US and China announce ‘historic’ accord
The United States and China on Wednesday announced an action plan on greenhouse emissions as part of a “historic” pact…
US, China reach ‘understanding’ on IT tariff cuts
The United States and China have “reached an understanding” on an agreement to reduce tariffs on information technology trade, the…
Obama heads for China after cyberspying row
President Barack Obama headed for China Sunday on a trip that will focus on Washington’s often tense relations with the…
Obama has offered nearly nothing to his supporters, says China media
China’s state-run media on Wednesday decried Barack Obama as a banal leader who has done an “insipid job”, days ahead…
Nigeria, China trade volume hits N1.7trn in 7 months
The Consul-General of the People’s Republic of China in Lagos, Mr Liu Kan, on Wednesday said that the trade volume…