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Beijing, Sept 27 (ANI): The move of US President Barack Obama and Southeast Asian leaders for a peaceful resolution to territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and America’s strong intentions to expand its influence in the region, is a challenge to the bilateral negotiation mechanisms in solving the territorial disputes, according to Chinese analysts. [...]

Beijing, Sep 27 (IANS) China has begun work on an extension to the world’s highest rail link which will connect the Tibetan capital of Lhasa to the region’s second largest city Xigaze. The new section from Lhasa to Xigaze is the first extension of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, which opened in July 2006, China Daily reported [...]

Beijing, Sep 21 (IANS) Even as winter is on its way in China, people are looking forward to the comfort of their homes and having some entertainment. Most of them plan to have Superman ‘delivered’ at 1,000 yuan an hour or a pole dance tutor at 800 yuan. While food, drink or shopping bags have [...]

Beijing, Sept. 20 (ANI): Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Guangya summoned Japanese ambassador to China Uichiro Niwa on Sunday evening to express his strong indignation and protest against Japan”s prolonged detention of a Chinese skipper. “The incident created by the Japanese side has severely damaged China-Japan relations,” said Wang. According to a Xinhua news report, [...]

Beijing, Sep 20 (IANS) China has now set its sight on planet Venus, where it hopes to land a space probe by 2015. A probe to Mars and the country’s first moon landing have also been chalked out. The first unmanned space laboratory, Tiangong-1, will be launched in 2011, after which there would be the [...]

Beijing, Sep 20 (IANS) Typhoon Fanapi hit China’s Fujian province Monday, uprooting trees, ripping off branches and knocking down billboards, but there has been no casualties, officials said. Officials of the Fujian provincial flood control headquarters said Fanapi hit Gulei township in Zhangpu county at 7 a.m. and lashed coastal areas with winds of speed [...]

Beijing, Sep 18 (IANS) Troops from five countries that make up the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) – China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia and Tajikistan – took part in a firing drill in Kazakhstan. This was the third joint training of the Peace Mission 2010 anti-terror exercise, and involved tanks, armoured vehicles, fighter planes, bombers, rockets and [...]

Matybulak (Kazakhstan), Sept.17 (ANI): The Chinese Government has said that it is committed to making its military more transparent. “All the equipment we brought here are relatively good and advanced ones,” the China Daily quoted Ma Xiaotian, deputy chief of the general staff of the People”s Liberation Army (PLA), as saying. The equipment includes tanks, [...]

Beijing, Sep 16 (IANS) Prisoners in China are ‘corrected’ before their release from jails by an institution which help the inmates lead a new life without committing crimes again. The Sunshine Halfway House, a ‘community correction institution’ in Beijing that was established two years ago, helps prisoners prepare for the outside world, China Daily reported. [...]

Beijing, Sep 16 (IANS) China’s press watchdog has ordered 15 websites to remove videos which were unauthorised or had copyright issues. The 15 sites, including youku.com, ku6.com and video.baidu.com, took up more than 80 percent of the country’s video market share, Wang Ziqiang, a senior official with the General Administration of Press and Publication (GAPP), [...]

Beijing, Sept. 14 (ANI): Chinese billionaire Chen Guangbiao recently made an important decision. Rising from his bed, he sat and penned a letter, in which he promised to give his entire fortune to charity after he leaves the world. The letter dated September 5 was later posted on his company website, bringing the 42-year-old billionaire [...]

New York, Sep 14(ANI): World No. 1 Rafael Nadal claimed a thrilling four-set victory over Serbia’s third-seeded Novak Djokovic to secure his first US Open title and complete a career Grand Slam. Nadal had never won the title at Flushing Meadows, but on Monday he claimed a 6-4 5-7 6-4 6-2 victory in a match [...]

New Delhi, Sep 14 (IANS) India’s first world champion wrestler Sushil Kumar came home to a hero’s welcome here early Tuesday with hundreds of fans and junior grapplers turning up at the Indira Gandhi International Airport. Sushil became the first Indian to win the World Championship after he defeated Russian Alan Gogaev in the final [...]

Beijing, Sep 14 (IANS) Online shopping in China has become easier as people can now avail of services of middlemen who dicker for lower prices with e-retailers on behalf of the buyers. The middlemen, who charge a small amount of the discount they get the buyers, are called ‘net bargainers’, and the service is booming [...]

Beijing, Sept.13 (ANI): Police have officially launched investigations into former Chinese Football Association (CFA) vice-president Xie Yalong and two other officials on suspicion of match fixing and bribery, the Ministry of Public Security has said. It was the first time police confirmed Xie was being investigated for match fixing, and the move is the latest [...]

New Delhi, Sep 13 (IANS) Wrestler Sushil Kumar’s historic World Championship gold finally brought some cheer to Indian wrestling at a time when six wrestlers tested positive for banned drugs ahead of the Oct 3-14 Commonwealth Games and brought taint upon the sport. Sushil defeated Russian Gogaev to win the 66-kg freestyle title in Moscow [...]

Beijing, Sep 9(ANI): The death toll from contracting infection from tick bites in China’s Henan province has climbed to 18. According to provincial health authorities, the 18 victims were among 557 reported cases of suspected human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) since May 2007. “Most of the cases were found in Xinyang’s Shangcheng and Guangshan counties and [...]

New Delhi, Sep 9 (ANI): Analysts say the relationship between India and China has always been a rocky one with little hope of any quick-fix solution to their long simmering tensions, which have flared up, in the recent past with China”s support for India”s arch-enemy Pakistan. Diplomatic ties between both nations have become increasingly fraught [...]

Washington, Sept.9 (ANI): The United States is taking steps to lay the foundation for indispensable partnership with India, said Secretary of State Hilary Clinton. Addressing the Council on Foreign Relations here on Thursday, Clinton described India as the world’s largest democracy, which has a very large convergence of fundamental values and a broad range of [...]

Beijing, Sep 8 (IANS) Thirteen children and a teacher were injured when a wall at a privately-run kindergarten in northwest China’s Shaanxi province collapsed, an official said Wednesday. The accident happened Tuesday in a village in Jingyang county, when the wall of a house adjacent to the kindergarten toppled and crashed into the kindergarten’s wall, [...]