China has let the widow of the late Nobel laureate and activist Liu Xiaobo. Liu Xia was under house arrest for eight years. She boarded a Finnish plane on Tuesday. She would want to go to Germany.
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.
North Korea only needs to rely on relief from international sanctions if it can demonstrate that all nuclear weapons have been dismantled. That said the American minister Mike Pompeo (Foreign Affairs), who said that China, South Korea and Japan support that position.
The fact that Kim Jong-un flew with Air China to Singapore was the most telling fact before the start of the summit. The North Korean leader travels under the wings of Beijing to talks with US President Trump. A small but important triumph for the Chinese.
China is chasing increasingly American state secrets in an increasingly aggressive manner. While the tension between the two countries is rapidly rising due to trade disputes and bickering over the South China Sea and North Korea, Beijing appears to have bribed several high-ranking American spies over the past two years in order to obtain secret material, which makes relations even more come under pressure.
The former chief of the North Korean secret service and chief executive in the government party, Kim Yong-chol, boarded a plane to the United States on Wednesday in Beijing. He is going to talk in New York with the US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo.
From our correspondent
The Chinese authorities imposed a fine on a company that declared Taiwan as 'country of origin' on packaging material. The Japanese Muji has to pay 200,000 yuan (more than 26,000 euros).
An employee of the US consulate in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou has been diagnosed with minor brain damage after complaining about strange sound sensations. He may have been the victim of a noise attack.
A Chinese court sentenced a Tibetan activist to five years in prison. The authorities had accused the 33-year-old Tashi Wangchuk of inciting separatism after he had given a critical interview to the newspaper The New York Times in 2015.
South Korean journalists are not present this week at the closure of the North Korean nuclear test site. The authorities in North Korea did not give the green light to the arrival of reporters from the southern neighbor.
China has agreed on Saturday to import more goods from the US. The country, however, did not say anything about the exact amount, while the White House demanded that Chinese import at least $ 200 billion of American goods.
Huang Huali gave birth to a daughter in April 2009. The girl is now nine years old. At the birth, Huang started a second life. She could have been a grandmother if her 22-year-old son had not died at the earthquake in the Chinese province of Sichuan.
China has for the first time brought a rocket from a commercial company into orbit around the earth. The Beijing based company OneSpace Technology developed the Chongqing Liangjiang Star, reports Chinese state media.
With temperatures of over 30 degrees it is pretty hot in the east of China. This is also the case in a Beijing zoo, where a giant panda is given a refreshing shower for the visitors' eye.
Clothing company Gap has apologized for the sale of a T-shirt with an 'incorrect' map of China. On Chinese social media photos of the garment had appeared, on which the country would have been depicted without areas like Tibet and Taiwan.
Kim Jong-un has visited China for the second time in two months. According to North Korean state television, Kim met with Chinese President Xi Jinping last Monday.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has visited China again. In the city of Dalian he met with Chinese president Xi Jinping, according to the Chinese state news agency Xinhua Tuesday.
A former prominent official of the Communist Party in China has been sentenced to life imprisonment for corruption. This is reported by the Chinese state press agency Xinhua.
The driver gives a demonstrative sigh as he scrolls through his messages. He is emphatically niksen. Above his knees, the steering wheel moves with the bend, and if the car comes too close to its predecessor, it also brakes by itself.
The White House is considering taking measures against the deployment of military equipment by China on islands in the South China Sea. 'We are well aware of Chinese militarization in the South China Sea. We have expressed our concern about this directly against the Chinese. This can have consequences, in the short and long term ', says government spokeswoman Sarah Sanders.
China has placed cruise missiles and surface-to-air missiles on three disputed islands in the South China Sea without disclosure. The American broadcaster CNBC reported on the basis of sources from American intelligence services that missiles have been placed that can hit ships more than 500 kilometers away.
Chinese drone maker EHang Egret has set a world record. The company had 1374 drones fly through the air at the same time.
The city of the future must rise in China. In order to improve the quality of life in Beijing, a completely new metropolis is being built at 100 kilometers from the capital. Xiongan, in the long term three times the size of New York, must become the latest Chinese miracle.
North Korea, through leader Kim Jong-un, offered 'deep apologies' to China for the bus accident during which 36 people died, including 32 Chinese tourists. The bodies of the victims are transported to China on Thursday by train.
In a fire in a karaoke bar in the southern Chinese city of Qingyuan, at least eighteen people were killed and five were injured on Tuesday. According to Chinese media, the police assume arson and they would have a suspect in mind.
A still unknown number of Chinese tourists died in a traffic accident in North Korea. According to the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs there are 'many victims.'
In a breeding program of Siberian tigers in Northeast China, thirty cubs were born in a month's time. A spokesperson for the breeding center in Heilongjiang province told the Chinese state press agency Xinhua that all tigers are in good health.
China opens its market with metal trade for foreign investors. The government announced this on Friday.
