Hong Kong flag carrier Cathay Pacific Airways will launch direct flights to Urumqi in April, expanding its mainland Chinese destinations to 20. The airline said on Friday that the 5½-hour flight between Hong Kong and Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in western China, would commence on April 28 and run four times…
A man in China was sentenced to four years in prison after he accidentally threw his six-month-old daughter out of their flat window, resulting in her death and sending shock waves through the community. A court in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region of Western China recently sentenced the father, surnamed Zhao, for manslaughter, as reported…
French President Emmanuel Macron is planning to visit China in the new year, as speculation swirls about Beijing’s potential role in ending the Ukraine war. According to several sources familiar with the matter, Macron’s trusted diplomatic adviser Emmanuel Bonne travelled this week to Beijing with a team of aides to lay the groundwork for a…