Europe’s main stock markets were largely flat on Monday after losses in Asia as traders reacted to China’s latest economic growth data. London’s FTSE 100 index of top companies dipped 0.03 percent to stand at 6,831.11 points around midday in the British…
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Rare video footage of Liu Xia, the wife of imprisoned Chinese Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, reading two self-written poems under house arrest was posted online Wednesday. Chinese authorities have not charged Liu Xia with any crime but have restricted her…
Auto sales in China, the world’s biggest car market, surged 13.9 percent to 21.98 million vehicles last year, an industry group said Thursday, with the growth rate outpacing 2012 despite economic weakness. Sales of passenger vehicles alone jumped 15…
Dancehall artiste, Baba Dee is set to release his seventh studio album. According to the veteran artiste, the album titled…
Editor’s note: the author, Zhenyu Li, a contributing columnist for some of the world’s premier publications and editor-in-chief of the business channel at the People’s Daily Online, a publication of China’s Communist Party. BEIJING, China — For the…
European stock markets moved higher on Friday in low-volume trade, aided by upbeat Spanish unemployment figures, but gains were capped after sharp losses elsewhere following more weak data from China. In afternoon deals, London’s benchmark FTSE 100…
PHILADELPHIA, Pa. — Say what you will about oddball millionaire Chen Guangbiao — the man has a knack for publicity stunts. Within China, he has made a name for himself as a sort of homegrown Donald Trump. Though not China’s richest man (he has…
US stocks on Thursday moved lower in the first trading session of 2014 following a mediocre report on Chinese manufacturing activity. About 30 minutes into trade, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 76.74 points (0.46 percent) to 16,499.92. The broad…
Thousands marched in Hong Kong Wednesday to demand a greater say in how their future leaders will be chosen, expressing fears that China will limit long-awaited political reforms. “Democracy will prevail” read some banners as protesters sang and shouted…
China’s top legislative committee formally approved a loosening of the country’s hugely controversial one-child policy on Saturday and abolished “re-education through labour” camps, state media reported. The decisions were taken by the standing committee…
Another Chinese city has capped the total number of car licence plates it will issue annually, state media said Sunday, following moves by Beijing and other metropolises to curb pollution and congestion. The world’s most populous nation is also the…
The virtual currency Bitcoin crashed in China on Wednesday, falling almost 50 percent after the country’s biggest trading platform BTC China banned deposits in yuan following new restrictions imposed by the central bank. Chinese speculators have driven…
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned China Tuesday against any move to declare an air defence zone in the South China Sea, as he affirmed defence ties with long-time ally the Philippines. Kerry, in Manila for a two-day visit, criticised China for…
An Indonesian prosecutor on Monday sought a 16-year jail term for a British woman who has admitted trafficking crystal methamphetamine into the country from China. Andrea Waldeck, aged in her early 40s, was arrested in late April at a hotel in the city…
A US warship that was forced to manoeuvre to avoid a collision with a Chinese naval vessel had “posed a threat”, state-run media said Monday, after Washington accused China of being the aggressor. The Global Times newspaper, which often takes a nationalistic…
China’s Jade Rabbit rover vehicle drove onto the moon’s surface Sunday after the first lunar soft landing in nearly four decades, a huge advance in the country’s ambitious space programme. The Yutu, or Jade Rabbit, was deployed at 4:35 am (2035 GMT…
A space module carrying China’s first lunar rover landed on the moon Saturday, state television said, the first soft landing on the moon in nearly four decades and a major step for Beijing’s ambitious space programme. Scientists burst into applause…
A knife-wielding attacker who stabbed 22 students at a primary school in China was sentenced to death on Friday, a court said. The Xinyang City Intermediate People’s Court said Min Yongjun, 37, was found guilty of intentional homicide and condemned…
CounterPoint Research report comes before China Mobile deal, while iOS 7 adoption running faster than last year, statistics show
The United States Monday urged Beijing to scrap new aviation arrangements set up by its new air defense zone which Washington has denounced as confusing and likely to increase the risk of accidents. “Our general position as a US government is that we…