A man in China whose 10 million yuan (US$1.4 million) lottery jackpot was falsely claimed by another person has won a lawsuit demanding the money back. However, the man, surnamed Yao, has still not received his winnings after a five-year battle to secure his rights. The case has attracted huge attention on mainland social media…
Text size China’s commerce ministry on Friday launched an investigation into imported beef at the request of representatives from its struggling domestic industry, it said. The local price of beef in China has trended downwards in recent years, with analysts blaming oversupply and a lack of demand as the world’s second largest economy has slowed….
The Yi Peng 3 had been anchored in the international waters of the Kattegat strait between Sweden and Denmark Mikkel Berg Pedersen Text size Beijing on Monday promised to continue “cooperation” with regional authorities over a Chinese ship linked to the recent severing of two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea. Sections of two telecom…
Text size Beijing on Monday promised to continue “cooperation” with regional authorities over a Chinese ship linked to the recent severing of two undersea cables in the Baltic Sea, after the vessel set sail from international waters of the Kattegat strait between Sweden and Denmark. “China is willing to maintain communication and cooperation with the…
Seven Chinese citizens were arrested on charges of illegally entering Guam around the time the US Missile Defence Agency conducted a key missile interception test using a new radar, the island’s Customs and Quarantine Agency has said. The agency said at least four of the people arrested on December 10-11 were found “in the vicinity…
US authorities are investigating the potential national security risks posed by Chinese router manufacturer TP-Link, with a possible ban on its products, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. The investigations, involving the Departments of Commerce, Defence, and Justice, have been prompted by concerns over TP-Link’s connections to cyberattacks and vulnerabilities in its routers….
Text size A man who turned himself in saying he was responsible for five murders in northern France had no criminal record, authorities said Sunday. The 22-year-old suspect was taken into custody on Saturday after surrendering at a police station in Ghyvelde just outside the Channel port city of Dunkirk around 5:20 pm (1620 GMT)…
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…
A construction worker survived a plunge from the seventh floor of a multi-storey car park in Hong Kong’s Kowloon on Saturday morning after landing on a truck filled with bamboo poles. Police received a report at 11.33am that a man had fallen onto a truck stacked with bamboo used for scaffolding outside the car park…
A construction worker survived a plunge from the seventh floor of a multi-storey car park in Hong Kong’s Kowloon on Saturday morning after landing on a truck filled with bamboo poles. Police received a report at 11.33am that a man had fallen onto a truck stacked with bamboo used for scaffolding outside the car park…