Shell has been licensed for oil trading on the wholesale market in China. According to news agency Xinhua, it is the first time that the People's Republic has granted permission to a company...
A man has attacked children at a primary school in Beijing. According to the first reports, he made twenty victims, reports Chinese media.
Due to a suicide attack in Afghanistan, the Pakistani separatist Aslam Baloch was killed. He was one of the main leaders of the Liberation Army for Baluchistan (BLA)...
Three students were killed by an explosion in a university laboratory in the Chinese capital Beijing. The accident took place during a chemical experiment on Wednesday...
China the taxes next year, 'significantly \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; to lower. This is stated in the final statement of a three-day meeting between the highest policy makers. The government must also ensure that the fees...
No Santa, no trees, no lights. The Chinese metropolis Langfang has banished all Christmas expressions. Although China has embraced the Christmas party en masse because of the commercial...
'Sap' is a thirty-centimeter wonder toy that has already sparkled in dozens of Chinese films and television productions. But now Sap is getting older and the highlight of his career...
China may have once again confirmed a Canadian. Businessman Michael Spavor contacted the Canadian Foreign Office after being interrogated by the Chinese police....
A former Canadian diplomat would have been detained in China. That is what his current employer and two other sources say. The arrest of ex-diplomat Michael Kovrig comes shortly after the arrest...
China has called on the American ambassador Sunday for a 'strong protest' against the arrest in Canada of Huawei top woman Meng Wanzhou. Beijing wants the United States to withdraw the arrest warrant.
An embarrassing situation for cabin crew on a flight from the Polish airline LOT between Beijing and Warsaw.
China is getting a big hit on Geneva today at a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council. Beijing has, as agreed, drawn up a report on human rights in the country, and according to many other UN member states, there is a lot to blame.
Beijing is ruling hard over the Xinjiang province, where the vast majority of Muslim Uyghurs live. The Chinese have an estimated one million Uighurs stopped in re-education camps where they have to renounce Islam.
The Scottish Jenny Graham (38) is the first woman to cycle around the world alone in 125 days with all her luggage. She arrived in Berlin on Thursday evening at the Brandenburger Tor, where she had left in the east on 16 June.
The US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, during a brief visit to Pyongyang, worked out Kim Jong-un with 'options' for a new summit between President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader. Washington called it a constructive conversation in which, among other things, the location and the date were discussed. It is 'another step forward', the American department reported without going into details.
US President Donald Trump accuses China of interfering with the upcoming Congressional elections in his country. Trump stated that Beijing wants to counter its Republican party because of its tough trade position.
The Chinese government called on the American ambassador in Beijing and is planning military talks with the US. With these measures, the country responds to the sanctions that Washington imposed on a Chinese military agency last week.
The Chinese Ministry of Defense is demanding that US sanctions be removed against a Chinese military agency. If this does not happen, then the United States will 'experience the consequences'.
Europe and Asia can better connect, not only with better transport links, but also in the digital and energy fields. The European Commission presented Wednesday a strategy that should give the connections between both continents a boost.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised African countries $ 60 billion (nearly 52 billion euros) in support. These include financial support from the Chinese government and billions of loans, which are granted free of interest or on favorable terms.
In Beijing Wildlife Park, a zoo in the Chinese capital Beijing, young lions, tigers and hyenas are looked after by a special appearance. A Golden Retriever mothers over the boy as if it were her own.
Russia will hold the biggest military exercise in almost forty years next month. The Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced that yesterday. 'The exercise has no precedent in terms of geographical scale and troop strength,' says Shoigu.
Panic among creators of games in China. Technology giant Tencent lost 10% on the stock market after Beijing forced Tencent to remove the Monster Hunter game from the WeGame platform. The fear is that Beijing is blocking other online games.
One of the most prominent Chinese monks has stepped down as chairman of the Buddhist Association of China. The Chinese authorities previously announced that they would investigate this master Xuecheng, the abbot of a temple near Beijing. He was accused of sexual misconduct.
Taiwan has upset the Chinese government because Beijing would have banned the new Walt Disney movie about Winnie the Pooh. According to some media, the Chinese ban has been instituted because the Chinese president Xi Jinping on the internet is often mockingly compared with the teddy bear.
Without warning him, the Chinese authorities started to demolish a studio in Beijing by the activist and artist Ai Weiwei. The sixty-year-old dissident put on Instagram a video showing how his studio with a heavy machine is destroyed.
According to unconfirmed reports, an explosion has occurred at the American embassy in Beijing. On social media, photos and videos are distributed on which smoke clouds and police activity can be seen.
The US government has published a list of Chinese products for which it wants to increase import duties by 10 percent. In total, it is about 200 billion dollars worth of goods. With the list, President Donald Trump's government is heading for a further escalation of the trade war between the United States and China.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is back in China. In Beijing Kim will probably inform Chinese President Xi Jinping about his meeting with US President Donald Trump.
'Robots' have taken the oral final English exam in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai. That took place last week. A speech computer assessed the level of the exam candidates. The gaokao, as the exam is called, gives access to the Chinese universities. The score plays a major role in the future of Chinese students and their families.
