Chinese manufacturing activity contracted in March to its weakest rate in eight months, data showed Monday, the latest indication of slowing growth in the world’s number two economy. The data is the latest in a string of weak indicators out of Beijing…
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Visiting US first lady Michelle Obama, along with her daughters and mother, came face-to-face with China’s Terracotta Warriors on Monday on a week-long tour which has taken in several major sites while skirting politics. The family stepped into one…
Visiting US first lady Michelle Obama toured China’s Great Wall on Sunday, after her arrival at the US embassy in Beijing earlier in the day sparked a minor security alert. She and her daughters strolled along a popular section of the wall and rode…
US First Lady Michelle Obama on Saturday emphasised the importance of universal rights, telling a crowd of students in Beijing that freedom of expression and religion should not be determined by one’s country of birth. Obama, who is on a week-long trip…
China has new satellite images of one or more floating objects that could be related to missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, Malaysian Transport Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said Saturday. “The news that I just received is that the Chinese ambassador…
Thousands of mourners packed a Shanghai square Saturday to bid farewell to “underground” Catholic Bishop Joseph Fan Zhongliang, whose faith led him to endure decades of suffering at the hands of China’s ruling Communist Party, they said. Fan, who was…
US First Lady Michelle Obama took her daughters and mother to Beijing’s former imperial palace Friday, on a China tour the White House emphasises will be light on politics and heavy on personal diplomacy. Obama, her daughters Malia and Sasha, and her…
The Chinese and European wine industries have agreed a deal that will see Beijing end an anti-dumping inquiry into imports from the European Union, China’s commerce ministry said Friday. The announcement comes a day before Chinese President Xi Jinping…
SHENZHEN, China — ZTE Corporation (âÃÂÃÂZTEâÃÂÃÂ) (H share stock code: 0763.HK / A share stock code: 000063.SZ), a publicly-listed global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions, announced it has signed a contract…
A new report out of China early this morning says that production on Apple’s iPhone 6 is set to begin in just a few weeks. According to Reuters, which cites the Taiwanese newspaper the Commercial Times, iPhone and iPad manufacturing firm Pegatron…