Beijing: China has green-lighted a third airport for the capital Beijing in a bid to reduce congestion and chronic delays.State media reported on Wednesday the new airport will be located 46 kilometers (29 miles) south
New Delhi: The "chemistry" between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping during the latter's September visit exemplifies the friendship between the two nations and the niggling issues of boundary dispute and trade
Beijing: Beijing has adopted a smoking ban in all indoor public spaces including workplaces and public transport.The official Xinhua News Agency reports the ban will go into effect on June 1 and carry a fine
Hong Kong: Hong Kong student leaders plan to fly to Beijing Saturday to try to meet China's top officials to press their case for a greater say in choosing the territory's next leader.Eason Chung, a
Nay Pyi Taw: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today had his first meeting with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, who said that China is looking forward to the Indian leader's maiden visit to Beijing.Modi met Li at
Beijing: All the sky-clearing measures plus cooperation from the weather kept Beijing relatively free of air pollution for most of a seven-day Asia-Pacific conference. Then, toward the end as top leaders met, the smog crept
Beijing: A thousand new facial-recognition cameras are watching for potential troublemakers. Kite-flying has become a jailable offense in some areas.Factories have been ordered to cut back or suspend production. And those are just part of
Beijing: Needles allegedly inserted into the body of an 11-month-old baby, by her abusive aunt were surgically removed.Doctors at the Beijing Children's Hospital said Tuesday Fan Zixuan was in good condition and was likely to
Hong Kong: Student democracy activists who have occupied Hong Kong streets for a month suggested Tuesday that direct negotiations with senior Chinese Communist Party officials could be a way to end their standoff with the
Beijing: China today accorded a red carpet welcome to new Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and appreciated his gesture to make Beijing his first stop of his maiden trip abroad, raising China's strategic stakes in the
New Delhi: IAF personnel and their families have been asked to desist from using Chinese ‘Xiaomi Redmi 1s' phones as these are believed to be transferring data to their servers in China and could be
Beijing: China may ban Facebook, but not its co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who delighted an audience of students in Beijing with a 30-minute chat in his recently learned Mandarin Chinese.There was no explicit discussion
London: Living with smokers is as bad as living in smoke-free homes in heavily polluted cities such as Beijing or London, researchers said. Moving to a smoke-free home could have major health benefits for non-smokers, they
Hong Kong: Hong Kong police clashed with protesters early today, with the government saying 20 people were injured in a fourth night of violence after nearly three weeks of largely peaceful pro-democracy rallies.Dozens of police
Hong Kong: Dozens of Hong Kong police arrived at a pro-democracy protest zone today to remove barricades in a dawn raid.Officers in riot helmets and shields descended on the district of Mong Kok to take
Hong Kong: Hong Kong's leader tried to soothe tensions with student-led democracy protesters Thursday by reviving an offer of talks, though public anger over a video of police kicking a handcuffed activist complicates efforts to
Yaounde: Cameroon's President Paul Biya today vowed his government would go after the Islamist group Boko Haram "until it's totally wiped out".He made the promise as he received 10 Chinese and 17 Cameroonians freed last
Beijing: China has upgraded the status of Tibet's top police force to that of a military body, recognizing its key role in maintaining peace in the troubled Himalayan region which has witnessed anti-Beijing protests by
Hong Kong: In an apparent concession to authorities warning pro-democracy protesters to clear Hong Kong's streets by the beginning of the work week, students occupying the area outside city government headquarters agreed today to remove
Hong Kong: Hong Kong's embattled leader stood defiant tonight, rejecting demands to resign and sending his deputy to talk to pro-democracy demonstrators, as huge crowds rallied outside his government's besieged headquarters for a fifth consecutive
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