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Sat, 24 Sep 2022 15:46:37 +0800
Macau to receive mainland tour groups from November
Macau Chief Executive Ho Iat-seng said on Saturday that the city will hopefully be able to receive mainland tour groups again from November. At a press conference, he said he made the request because mainland visitors are very important to the loca...

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 15:43:06 +0800
Ex-vice security chief Sun Lijun faces life in jail
A former top security official faces life in jail after a mainland court on Friday hit him with a suspended death sentence for bribery and other crimes. The death sentence of Sun Lijun, former vice minister of public security, will be commuted to li...

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 12:56:47 +0800
Man linked to restaurant attack on women jailed
A court in northern China sentenced one man to 24 years in jail on Friday for his role in a vicious attack on four women, as well as other crimes including robbery and opening an illegal gambling ring. The Guangyang District People's Court in Hebei ...

Fri, 23 Sep 2022 12:38:08 +0800
China, Australia diplomats hold 'constructive' talks
Australia is aiming for a stable relationship with China despite differences in particular on trade, Australia's foreign minister said, as she called on China to use its influence as a great power to help end the war in Ukraine. Australian Foreign M...

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 21:23:19 +0800
China's former justice minister faces life in prison
The former justice minister on the mainland faces life in prison, after a court handed him a suspended death sentence on Thursday for taking bribes and "bending the law". Fu Zhenghua's death sentence will be commuted to life imprisonment after a two...

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 16:02:46 +0800
Man found in 'miracle' rescue 17 days after quake
A Chinese worker who tended to his injured colleagues following a deadly earthquake and then got lost in the mountains in the province of Sichuan has been rescued 17 days later. The 6.8-magnitude quake struck the southwestern province earlier this ...

Thu, 22 Sep 2022 14:38:35 +0800
China's Ukraine position to stay fair: Wang Yi
Beijing's position on Ukraine will continue to be "objective" and "fair", foreign minister Wang Yi told his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday. China hopes that all partie...

Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:36:31 +0800
Beijing wants 'peaceful reunification' with Taiwan
Beijing on Wednesday said it will do all it can to strive for a peaceful reunification with Taiwan, though it warned that it would have to resort to ‘assertive measures’ if separatists and external forces ‘cross the red line’. Asked about t...

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 14:48:45 +0800
'Chinese commercial space travel in 2025 possible'
China could launch commercial suborbital spaceflights by 2025, with each ticket expected to cost two to three million yuan, according to state media. A senior rocket scientist and founder of CAS Space, a Beijing-based rocket company, told the Global...

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 12:36:18 +0800
China plans easier border entry rules for tourists
Beijing has issued draft rules aimed at making it easier for some foreigners to enter the mainland for visits to tourism sites along the Chinese border. Travel groups organised by tour agencies in border areas in the mainland can choose their port o...

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:37:59 +0800
No new cases in Chengdu after lockdown ends
The southwestern metropolis of Chengdu on Tuesday reported no new locally transmitted Covid-19 infections on September 19, when millions of people emerged from a coronavirus lockdown that had closed schools, disrupted businesses and forced residents ...

Tue, 20 Sep 2022 10:48:57 +0800
China leaves lending benchmarks unchanged
China kept its benchmark lending rates unchanged at a monthly fixing on Tuesday, in line with expectations, as authorities appeared to hold off immediate monetary easing following recent rapid yuan declines. The one-year loan prime rate (LPR) was ke...

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 15:00:46 +0800
Wang Qishan to attend Queen Elizabeth's funeral
Vice President Wang Qishan is on Monday attending the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II as the special representative of President Xi Jinping. He's among hundreds of world leaders and dignitaries attending the state funeral at Westminster Abbey in Londo...

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 12:08:52 +0800
Biden says US forces would help defend Taiwan
The Foreign Ministry said on Monday it has lodged "stern representations" with the United States after US President Joe Biden said American forces would defend Taiwan in the event of an attack by the mainland, his most explicit statement so far on th...

Mon, 19 Sep 2022 11:26:18 +0800
27 people killed in mainland quarantine bus crash
The victims of a bus crash which killed 27 people and injured a further 20 in southwest China's Guizhou province were in an official government health vehicle and were being transported for Covid reasons, local media reported. The accident took plac...

Sun, 18 Sep 2022 17:24:24 +0800
Taiwan hit by a second stronger earthquake
A 6.8 magnitude earthquake hit the sparsely populated southeastern part of Taiwan on Sunday, the island's weather bureau said, derailing train carriages and causing a convenience store to collapse. The weather bureau said the epicentre was in Taitun...

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 22:17:34 +0800
Strong earthquake strikes Taiwan
A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.4 shook southeastern Taiwan on Saturday but there were no immediate reports of damage. Taiwan authorities said the quake had a depth of 7.3 km with its epicentre in Taitung county, a sparsely populated part of the ...

Sat, 17 Sep 2022 03:23:58 +0800
China Telecom building catches fire in Changsha
A massive fire engulfed a high-rise office building in downtown Changsha, capital of Hunan, on Friday afternoon, state media reported. Dozens of storeys of the more than 200-metre tall China Telecom building "burned with great intensity", sending th...

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 17:37:11 +0800
Xi calls for a 'fairer' world order
President Xi Jinping on Friday called on Russia and other members of a regional grouping to support each other in preventing foreign powers from instigating "colour revolutions" in their countries. Delivering his speech at a Shanghai Cooperation Or...

Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:52:06 +0800
Xi urges more 'political trust' with Turkey
President Xi Jinping met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday, urging "political mutual trust" between the two sides during a regional security meeting in Central Asia. Xi and Erdogan met on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperatio...



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