Fish fossils offer clues to human evolution

Fish fossils dating back 440 million years are helping to “fill some of the key gaps” on how humans evolved from fish, researchers said on Wednesday.
29 September 2022, 18:00 PM

China’s Communist Party has elected delegates for congress

China’s Communist Party said yesterday that it had elected all the delegates attending a key political meeting starting October 16, where President Xi Jinping is expected to secure an unprecedented third term.
25 September 2022, 18:00 PM

China celebrates National Day in Dhaka

The Chinese embassy in Bangladesh in collaboration with the foreign affairs office of the People’s Government of Yunnan Province and Yunnan Commercial Representative Office in Dhaka organised a programme to celebrate the 73rd National Day of the People’s Republic of China on Saturday. 
25 September 2022, 18:00 PM

27 dead in China bus crash

A bus crash killed 27 people and injured a further 20 when the vehicle rolled over on a highway in southwest China's mountainous Guizhou province, local police said in a statement on Sunday.
18 September 2022, 07:33 AM

China reports first imported monkeypox case

The Chinese city of Chongqing reported one case of the monkeypox virus infection on Friday in an individual who arrived from abroad, marking mainland China's first known monkeypox infection amid the recent global outbreak of the virus.
17 September 2022, 05:55 AM

China to sanction Boeing Defense, Raytheon CEOs over Taiwan sales

China will impose sanctions on the CEOs of Boeing Defense and Raytheon over their involvement in Washington's latest arms sales to Taiwan, a foreign ministry spokesperson said on Friday.
16 September 2022, 09:47 AM

Typhoon lashes China

High winds and heavy rain lashed China’s densely populated east coast yesterday after Typhoon Muifa forced around 1.6 million people to leave their homes
15 September 2022, 18:00 PM

Beijing for ‘more just’ world order

China is willing to shape the international order together with Russia in a “more just and rational direction”, a senior Chinese diplomat said as the two countries’ leaders prepare to meet this week.
13 September 2022, 18:00 PM

China quake death toll rises to 74

China has reopened roads leading to the epicentre of Monday’s 6.8 magnitude earthquake in the southwestern province of Sichuan and traffic has
7 September 2022, 18:00 PM

China earthquake toll rises to 66

Chinese firefighters worked in treacherous terrain yesterday to help evacuate more than 11,000 people after a magnitude-6.8 quake struck China’s mountainous southwestern province of Sichuan a day earlier, killing at least 66 people.
6 September 2022, 18:00 PM

China accuses US of ‘tens of thousands’ of cyberattacks

Beijing yesterday accused the United States of launching “tens of thousands” of cyberattacks on China and pilfering troves of sensitive data, including from a public research university.
5 September 2022, 18:00 PM

30 people killed in southwest China

At least 30 people were killed when a strong earthquake struck southwestern China yesterday, state media reported, as violent tremors in a remote region damaged homes and left some areas without electricity.
5 September 2022, 18:00 PM

China’s No. 3 leader to visit Russia

China’s top legislator Li Zhanshu will visit Russia next week, state media reported yesterday, becoming the highest-ranking Communist Party politician to travel to the country since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine
4 September 2022, 18:00 PM

2 Chinese fighter jets crosses median line of Taiwan Strait

Two Chinese fighter jets crossed on Sunday the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which normally acts as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, Taiwan's defence ministry said, as Beijing continues its military activities near the island.
4 September 2022, 13:41 PM

Treatment of Uyghurs: China may have committed crimes against humanity

China’s “arbitrary and discriminatory detention” of Uyghurs and other Muslims in its Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights chief said in a long-awaited report on Wednesday.
1 September 2022, 18:00 PM

New covid outbreak: Chinese city of 16m to shut down

Around 16 million people in the Chinese city of Chengdu will be effectively under lockdown from yesterday as authorities race to snuff out a new Covid-19 outbreak.
1 September 2022, 18:00 PM

China’s treatment of Uyghurs possible crimes against humanity: UN

China's "arbitrary and discriminatory detention" of Uyghurs and other Muslims in the country's Xinjiang region may constitute crimes against humanity, the outgoing UN human rights chief said in a long-awaited report on Wednesday.
1 September 2022, 03:05 AM

Taiwan fires warning shots at Chinese drone

Taiwan fired warning shots at a Chinese drone which buzzed an offshore islet on Tuesday shortly after President Tsai Ing-wen said she had ordered Taiwan's military to take "strong countermeasures" against what she termed Chinese provocations.
30 August 2022, 18:37 PM

China drills deepened int’l solidarity: Taiwan

China’s huge military drills around Taiwan have only made allies more determined to visit the island democracy and show solidarity, Taipei’s foreign minister Joseph Wu said yesterday.
26 August 2022, 18:00 PM

Taiwan announces plans for record defence budget

Taiwan yesterday announced plans for a record increase to its defence budget after huge military drills by China earlier this month sent tensions between the two to their highest in decades.
25 August 2022, 18:00 PM