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For the third time this year, China has arrested a Japanese resident in China. This said a government spokesman in Japan Friday.

Not only cities like Beijing contend with dangerous amounts of smog. The same fate also affects New Delhi, capital of India. At this time, the air in the city is dirtier than ever, Indian media report Thursday.

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They are the darlings of the North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, which they reportedly personally selected, but count outside the borders of the communist state, the girls from the band Moranbong be less understanding.

That a North Korean girl band last weekend suddenly disappeared from the Chinese capital of Beijing, according to analysts indicate growing tensions between the two countries on armaments and political protocol.

Under great international interest is Monday began the trial of well-known Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang. He must avoid, because he has been critical of the regime in his country. There were riots when people were not allowed into the courtroom.

The first international appearance of the North Korean girl- pop group the Moranbong Band, is shortly before the start of the action in Beijing deleted. The group would give three concerts starting Saturday in Beijing, but for unknown reasons that do not go suddenly. Rock band has left Beijing and would have gone back to North Korea.

The highest smog alarm, code red, in Beijing Thursday revoked. Thursday afternoon, cars are allowed to drive again and Friday the schools open again. A cold front has blown away the suffocating smog.

Beijing will remain to suffer from heavy smog. The current code red which was decreed by the government, runs Thursday to finish at 12.00. Meteorologists and environmental experts on Wednesday warned of more of the same. From Saturday the metropolis is again plagued by heavy pollution, they predict.

The Chinese authorities have for the first time Monday in the capital, Beijing announced the highest smog alarm. The state news agency Xinhua reported that this ' red alert ' runs from Tuesday 07:00 am to noon (12:00 pm) on Thursday.

China on Wednesday announced measures to reduce pollution by power companies. According to state media, the government announced that the country's emissions by these companies in 2020 will have been reduced by 60 percent.

While Paris prepares for the climate summit, Beijing still has to deal with heavy smog. Meanwhile issued in the Chinese capital code orange, the second highest level of alert.

The air pollution in the Chinese capital Beijing Saturday has risen to an alarming level. The content of fine particles in the air is 391 micrograms per cubic meter, nearly twenty times more than the 25 micrograms by the World Health Organization (WHO) still designates as safe.

China has converted 14 million pledged to continue the search for the missing flight MH370. That Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Saturday, reports the Chinese news agency Xinhua.

Releasing the one-child policy will lead to three million babies born annually in China. All those extra children make is that in 2050 the labor force thirty million workers larger than under the old rules. The increase in the number of children creates a half percent economic growth per year, as demand for such things as housing, education and health meestijgt.

A thick layer of toxic smog hangs over northeast China. The polluted air contains more than fifty times more matter than the maximum that the World Health Organization (WHO) has established. Air pollution is the worst since Beijing in 2013 began with the measurements.

Vietnam has invited a Japanese naval vessel to visit his basic strategic Cam Ranh Bay to the South China Sea. The arrival of the ship is the first joint naval exercise of these countries ever and will be viewed by China with suspicion.

At the summit meeting between the leaders of China and Taiwan are the territorial disputes in the South China Sea on the agenda. That said, President Ma Ying- jeou of Taiwan Thursday at a news conference.

China was again shaken by an attack by a knife puller. This time a policeman was slain and hit three of his colleagues wounded. That happened in the eastern town of Luoyang.

Malaysia has 45.5 million spent on the search for the missing plane Malaysia Airlines MH370. The aftermath of the crash of flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, the land cost 2.7 million euros. That the Malaysian Ministry of Transport reported Monday.

China persecutes the former chief editor of the official Communist Party newspaper, the Xinjiang Daily. The 58-year-old Zhao Xinwei must answer for corruption, after he had been critical of the way the State had handled the violence in the western region of Xinjiang.

Human rights activists and lawyers called the German Chancellor to put human rights on the agenda during her two-day visit to China. Writing in a letter to Merkel them which Chinese lawyers are persecuted and arrested arbitrarily.

China, Japan and South Korea love for the first time in three years a summit. That Chinese Premier Li Keqiang announced Monday. The three countries will meet in the South Korean capital Seoul, presumably early November.

In an effort to address the corrupt practices at the root, the Chinese government made ​​golf officials banned. Also improper sexual behavior is for the government officials no longer.

Google has its first direct investment in China made ​​since the Internet giant 's land in 2010 largely abandoned because of concerns about censorship by Beijing. Tuesday was a "significant minority interest" announced in Mobvoi , a search engine based on voice which was founded by two former employees of Google.

During the upcoming state visit of King Willem- Alexander to China and its partially coincident trade mission rights issue will again be discussed . That has let Bert Koenders, Minister of Foreign Affairs said on Sunday . Who is going to raise the issue , wants a spokeswoman for the Ministry did not say .

Russia, the United States offered to collaborate more closely in Syria . Washington , however, is not addressed there, said Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov on Saturday at a security conference in Beijing.

A giant panda from China, gave birth Tuesday in the Zoo of Toronto, Canada, with two baby pandas. There Shun mother , which was loaned by Beijing, and her two offspring are doing well , says the Toronto Zoo. It is the first time that giant pandas were born in Canada .

The Chinese police have broken up a gang of smugglers of banned animal products. Sixteen suspects were arrested. That the police announced in Beijing Monday.

Jiang Jiemin, the former president of the China National Petroleum Corporation has been convicted of corruption in Beijing to a prison term of 16 years. That the Chinese state television announced Monday.