The Chinese police arrested 29 suspects after a fuss about the practices of a slaughterhouse. That pumped cattle full of water to increase the slaughter weight of the animals, reports state media. It is unclear exactly what the suspects are charged with.
The Chinese police have seized approximately half a million boxes of counterfeit condoms. They were provided with well-known brand names, but according to the authorities, the quality was below par. Seventeen suspects have been arrested, reports Chinese media.
An embarrassing situation for cabin crew on a flight from the Polish airline LOT between Beijing and Warsaw.
After a disaster in a coal mine in eastern China, which took the lives of 21 workers, the owner-occupied energy company has dismissed the entire management team. In addition to the director and his deputy, the chief engineer was also dispatched. That has been announced by Xinhua news agency.
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.
Rescue workers found Thursday the bodies of two miners who were stuck in a Chinese coal mine. As a result, the death toll has risen to five, reports the Chinese state press agency Xinhua. Sixteen people are still missing.
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.
Interpol director Meng Hongwei was arrested after arrival in China and taken for interrogation. The Chinese watchdog against corruption said on Sunday evening that the authorities have initiated a judicial investigation of him because they suspect him of a violation of law.
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.
The motorist who drove into a crowd in the Chinese city of Hengyang, had a long criminal record and wanted to 'take revenge on society.' This is what the authorities say, who reported eleven deaths and 44 injured.
The North Korean leader Kim Jong-un told an envoy from the Chinese President Xi Jinping that he will abide by the agreement with the United States on nuclear-freeing the country. That has been announced by Chinese state television.
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.
Drivers who work via Chinese taxi apps have broadcast images of unsuspecting passengers live via the internet. A Chinese video site is now taking action against such practices and is forbidding the drivers from making such clips from customers any longer, according to the South China Morning Post newspaper.
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.
During a large fire in a hotel in Harbin, northeastern China, eighteen people were killed on Saturday morning. After four hours, the emergency services were in charge of the fire in the three-story building.
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.
The hearts of Chinese with a desire to have a child have started to beat a bit faster this week. And that's because of a New Year's seal. From the image, they are hoping that they may have more children, reports The Times and the Wall Street Journal.
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.
The big man behind the Chinese censorship of the internet has fallen into disgrace. Lu Wei is accused of having been bribed. State media have brought out that charge on Monday.
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.
China has let the widow of the late Nobel laureate and activist Liu Xiaobo. Liu Xia (57) was under house arrest for eight years. She boarded a Finnish plane on Tuesday and arrived at the end of the afternoon (local time) in Germany.
