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U.S. Vessels Sail Through Taiwan Strait, Defying China
The Pentagon sent two vessels through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, a show of U.S. support for Taiwan likely to fuel concerns in Beijing that Washington is aligning increasingly with Taipei.
Death toll from China pesticide plant blast rises to 78
BEIJING: The death toll from a massive explosion last week at a pesticide plant in eastern China rose to 78 on Monday (Mar 25), with 13 people ...
Opinion | China can’t prettify the human rights catastrophe in Xinjiang
Beijing is waging a campaign of cultural genocide against Uighurs and other Muslims.
'It's happening everywhere': China buying Australian flying schools - 2GB
China is buying up Australian pilot training schools. Virgin Australia is currently in talks with a Chinese conglomerate to open a flight school in Tamworth for both Chinese and Australian pilots. Businessman and aviation expert, Dick Smith tells Alan Jones he’s seeing continued Chinese ownership across the entire Australian aviation industry. Mr Smith claims “it’s […]
Drone pilots in demand as China’s farmers age
Demand for agricultural drone pilots to help spray pesticide has risen in China with the labour shortage in the countryside.
China's Big Oil Aims Spending Boom at Old Wells to Heed Call
China’s oil giants aim to spend the most in five years in pursuit of higher energy output. But unlike global rivals investing in top-tier assets, the state-owned producers are trying to boost supply from fields that are either old and high-cost or new and challenging.
China Pledges Openness in Hopes of Reaching a Trade Deal (Published 2019)
Top Chinese officials, looking at a skeptical audience both at home and abroad, pledge to open the country’s markets to foreign investment.
The Interview - Missing ex-Interpol chief’s wife: 'I'm afraid China will kidnap me and my boys'
Grace Meng, the wife of Interpol's ex-chief, has not heard from her husband since he vanished six months ago on a trip to his native China. Meng claims she has been intimidated and the subject of kid…
Ethiopia in talks with China to ease ‘serious’ debt woes tied to railway
Ethiopian ambassador to China Teshome Toga Chanaka insists that signing on to the Belt and Road Initiative ‘makes a lot of sense’, rejecting claims that the plan is a ‘debt trap’ for developing economies.
Italy’s Accord With China Sparks New Clash Among Leaders in Rome
Italy’s agreement with Chinese President Xi Jinping to join the Belt and Road development project is triggering new tension between the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and its rightist coalition partner the League.
Huawei ramps up foreign university investment despite US pressure
Chinese telecoms group reveals it spends $300m a year on academic partnerships
U.S. official denounces 'choreographed' visits to China's Xinjiang
China has been stepping up a push to counter growing criticism in the West and among rights groups about a controversial de-radicalization program in heavily Muslim Xinjiang, which borders Central Asia. Critics say China is operating internment camps for Uighurs and other Muslim peoples who live in Xinjiang, though the government calls them vocational training centers and says it has a genuine need to prevent extremist thinking and violence. China's foreign ministry said late last week it would invite Beijing-based European diplomats to visit soon.
Italy joins China's New Silk Road project
Italy is the first G7 country to sign up to China's global investment programme, despite Western concerns.
“Hanification”: Uyghur Children Cut off from Their Roots
As Uyghur parents are taken away for re-education, children are surrounded by barbed wire, forbidden to speak their language.
Even Huawei’s CFO wouldn't carry Huawei products, opting for Apple instead - 9to5Mac
The arrested CFO of Huawei was nabbed by police carrying three key Apple devices.
江蘇化工廠爆炸增至62人死 聯合國秘書長慰問
江蘇鹽城化工廠爆炸大火，死亡人數增至 62人，其中26人已確認身份，另有28人失蹤。600多名傷者中，34人情況危重。國務院已成立特別重大爆炸事故調查組並展開調查工作。國務委員王勇率領國務院有關部門負責人前往事故現場，指導救援和應急處置工作，以及探望傷者。聯合國秘書長古特雷斯發表聲明，對事故導致大量人命傷亡深感悲傷。聯合國向受害者家人表示慰問，向中國政府和人民致以衷心的同情，並祝願傷者早日康復。事發在周四下午，鹽城響水縣化工園區一間廠房爆炸，大火波及旁邊其他工廠。當局正密切監察當地的空氣和水質。
US firms register as foreign agents of embattled Chinese telecom giant Huawei
China’s Huawei has launched a multi-part strategy to reshape the embattled Chinese telecom giant’s image through litigation, lobbying and public relations.
Journalist group slams city’s ex-leader for putting pressure on Apple Daily advertisers
Hong Kong Journalists Association says former city chief ‘was suggesting the public should stop buying products from those advertisers’.
Chinese tourists eye Singapore, US and Italy for ‘extra’ May Day holiday
Decision to extend holiday period to four days is expected to trigger 150 million extra trips to favourite domestic and foreign destinations
BBC journalists concerned over Tony Hall's Huawei meeting
BBC News staff raise concerns over director general’s meeting with embattled Chinese firm
