(Representative image: ANI) TAIPEI: Taiwan’s Ministry of National Defence (MND) has said that it has detected 10 Chinese military aircraft and five naval ships around Taiwan in the past 24 hours, till 6 am (local time) on Saturday, Taiwan News reported. Taiwan’s MND did not reveal whether the Chinese military aircraft crossed into China’s air…
China’s coast guard to ramp up patrols near Taiwan’s Kinmen archipelago (AP) BEIJING: China’s coast guard said on Sunday it will strengthen its law enforcement activities and carry out regular patrols around a small group of Taiwanese-controlled islands off the Chinese coast as tensions rise over the deaths of two Chinese nationals. Taiwan on Thursday…
BEIJING: Ten years on, the families of Chinese passengers who disappeared on board a lost Malaysia Airlines flight still are searching for answers. On Friday, a few dozen relatives of the passengers met officials at China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing as part of their long journey for answers. They also visited the Malaysian…
Leaders and delegates stand as they sing national anthem during the closing session of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (AP) BEIJING: China’s parliament on Monday revised a law to effectively grant the Communist Party more executive control over China’s cabinet, the State Council, after cancelling the premier’s post-parliament news conference for the first time…
An earthquake of 4.5 magnitude strikes China (Representative Image) An earthquake of 4.5 magnitude has jolted China in the early hours of Friday, according to the National Centre for Seismology (NCS). The tremors occurred around 06:29 am IST and were recorded at a depth of 10 km.The NCS posted the details of the earthquake on…
US deputy secretary of state Christopher Landau (left), Chinese foreignj minister Wang Yi (AP) Beijing and Washington sustained high-level engagement on Thursday through a call between senior diplomats, indicating that both sides are keeping diplomatic channels open after reaching a trade truce earlier this month. US deputy secretary of state Christopher Landau and China’s executive…
A BYD showroom (file photo: AP) RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian prosecutors are suing Chinese electric car giant BYD and two contracting companies for human trafficking and alleged slave labor conditions at a build site, according to legal documents seen by AFP Thursday.The case concerns 220 Chinese workers found last December in conditions “analogous to slavery”…
Representative image (left) and FBI director Kash Patel Two Chinese researchers have been charged by the FBI for allegedly smuggling a dangerous biological pathogen Fusarium graminearum into the United States.Yunqing Jian, 33, and Zunyong Liu, 34, have been accused of illegally bringing the pathogen, a plant fungus which is an agroterrorism agent into the US…
A human-sized Labubu figure was sold for 1.08 million yuan (approximately $150,275) at an auction house in Beijing, China, on Tuesday.This set a new record for the trending doll, which is rapidly gaining popularity. The event was held by Yongle International Auction, with over a thousand bidders participating through the Yongle mobile app. Around 200…
Doctors in China have reported a major milestone in organ transplantation after a 71-year-old man lived 171 days following the world’s first published pig liver transplant. The surgery, performed in May 2024 at the First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, involved transplanting a genetically modified liver from an 11-month-old pig. The patient initially survived…
