Chinese President Xi Jinping held a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin via a video link on Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported. It also follows a phone call between Xi and Trump on Friday, when the two leaders exchanged views on the war in Ukraine, according to the Chinese readout of the talks. China has…
China has launched the first of its next generation of amphibious assault ships, the Type 076, featuring an electromagnetic catapult. The independently-developed Sichuan, bearing the hull number 51, entered the water at a launch and naming ceremony in Shanghai at the Hudong-Zhonghua shipyard, according to state broadcaster CCTV. The Sichuan will be “a key asset”,…
A woman returned to a small village in southwestern China to find her kitchen floor on the verge of collapsing, just before the latest sinkhole – of more than 30 recorded in the past 17 months – in the area opened up beneath her home. The Baxiangping community within Xiangping village, northeast of Fuquan city,…
Nine people were killed in a fire at a cold storage on Saturday in China’s eastern province of Shandong, state media reported. Thermal insulation materials caught on fire at the under-construction cold chain storage facility in the city of Rongcheng around midday on Saturday, state broadcaster CCTV said. The nine deaths at the site were…
BEIJING (Reuters) – China plans in 2027 to test the next generation of Beidou, the country’s answer to the U.S.-owned GPS navigation system, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday. The rollout of the new system, expected to be complete by 2035, will provide users with more precise, real-time navigation, according to CCTV. (Reporting by Eduardo…
A woman in China died after undergoing six cosmetic surgeries within 24 hours, sparking a lawsuit by her family against the clinic involved seeking 1.2 million yuan (US$168,000). On December 9, 2020, the woman, surnamed Liu, from a rural area in Guigang, Guangxi province, southern China, visited a clinic in Nanning, where she took out…
A man accused of spiking a woman’s drink at a Hong Kong bar has been sacked by two fintech companies with headquarters in Singapore. The woman shared details of the alleged incident on her social media account, saying she was warned by a waitress that her drink had been tampered with and had felt “extremely…
The Chinese navy’s two active aircraft carriers – the Liaoning and the Shandong – have completed their first dual carrier exercises in the South China Sea, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday. The report did not give details of the drills, but it included footage showing multiple J-15 fighter jets taking off from the Liaoning,…
About 25,000 revellers are expected to celebrate Halloween in Hong Kong’s Lan Kwai Fong nightlife area on Thursday, police have said, with the force stepping up safety measures including installing more surveillance cameras and using crowd counting technology for the first time. In an annual crowd control plan for the popular event in Central, assistant…
About 25,000 revellers are expected to celebrate Halloween in Hong Kong’s Lan Kwai Fong nightlife area on Thursday, police have said, with the force stepping up safety measures including installing more surveillance cameras and using crowd counting technology for the first time. In an annual crowd control plan for the popular event in Central, assistant…