Southeast Asia's first Smurfs Fun Park will open its doors in China later this year. The park is rising in a tourist area in Shanghai, reports the Chinese news agency Xinhua. The construction is...
The recruitment officer raises two hands. He lists the requirements that workers must meet. Good hands of course, not older than 40 and they must be able to read the alphabet-…
The United States must resolve the differences of opinion with Russia through dialogue, rather than threatening to withdraw from an important disarmament agreement. That has the Chinese...
The writer and former Chinese diplomat Yang Hengjun, who is now an Australian citizen, according to one of his friends was arrested by the Chinese authorities.
It was not the first time that Chinese president Xi Jinping called on Taiwan to join the motherland again. However, his wording was more compelling this time. Xi said yesterday that Taiwan,...
Game producer Tencent will check whether the players of online games really are of age. The producer wants to do this by looking up the names in the civil administration of the police. On…
For the first time in more than 24 hours, a plane landed at London's Gatwick airport on Friday morning. A flight from China Eastern Airlines from Shanghai landed at 07.11 am (Dutch...
'Grubelijk' calls state newspaper People's Daily the arrest of Huawei topwoman Meng Wanzhou in Canada. With the arrest, the Canadian police violate human rights; she hits her in the cuffs 'as if she is a kind of notorious criminal'.
Mr. Wang's apartment (80) is a musty mess that has not been cleaned for ages. 'Would you like an apple? They are fresh; I bought them this morning. 'Wang does not get a lot of visitors. His estranged daughter lives on the other side of the country, and his son and wife have died.
China has stopped building a bridge over the Yangtze River in Hubei province, after the work would have resulted in the deaths of about six thousand endangered sturgeons.
Due to smoke in the cabin, an aircraft with 282 people on board made an emergency landing in Siberia, in the east of Russia.
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.
Two elderly men in orange vests are chatting around the neighborhood. They greet two ladies with the same orange caps on their gray curls. Throughout the whole of Shanghai, thousands of volunteers are walking around guarding order. The five-day China International Import Expo (CIIE) starting on Monday is approached at least as big as the G20 in 2016.
Wang Fuman is known in China as the Ice Boy. With ice flowers in his hair and his cheeks red from the freezing cold he walked to school last winter. Wang is only one of the 60 million children who stay behind in poverty in the Chinese countryside when their parents start working in the city.
Kim Jong-un visits South Korea before the end of the year. He promised the South Korean president Moon Jae-in. It will be the first time that a North Korean leader is visiting the south.
There is probably no Chinese who does not know the face of the actress Fan Bingbing. Where the Americans have actresses like Sarah Lawrence or Anne Hathaway, the Chinese have Fan.
Moon is about the diplomatic ties, not just the umpteenth explanation. That is what the South Korean president says, prior to his visit to Pyongyang where he will meet the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. It is the third time that they shake hands, since they first spoke in April.
Dua Lipa reacted visibly when fans were brutally removed from the hall during her concert in Shanghai.
China is not getting cold or cold from the increasing international criticism about the treatment of Muslim minority in the country. It strengthens the country in the belief that it carries out a justified fight against terror. Meanwhile, some million Uyghur men are being held in 73 camps in the autonomous region of Xinjiang.
Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Pyongyang next month at the invitation of North Korean leader Kim Jung-un to celebrate the seventieth anniversary of North Korea's founding. That reports the Singaporean newspaper The Straits Times.
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.
Sucking a cup of fresh iced tea, many Chinese city dwellers pass through the summer. Tea has always been China's favorite beverage, but has undergone a rejuvenation cure for the last two years.
More than 190,000 people in eastern Shanghai have been evacuated to safer places because a typhoon is approaching the city.
In an explosion in a chemical plant in south-western China, nineteen people were killed on Thursday evening. There were also twelve wounded.
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 finally let her go. Liu Xia (57), the widow of Nobel laureate Liu Xiaobo, arrived in Berlin on Tuesday evening after she was not allowed to leave her house for almost eight years.
'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.
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.
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).
China has launched a communication satellite named Queqiao Monday morning (local time) to establish a connection between a probe that is present on the dark side of the moon and the earth.
