Heavy rains have hit Shanghai as well, with some parts of the city being inundated on Wednesday. Authorities are trying to drain the street of the water ahead of the evening traffic peak. The overnight torrential rain has been working around the cloc...
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott have exchanged congratulations on the signing of a bilateral Free Trade Agreement. They hailed it as a paradigm of regional economic integration. Xi Jinping said in his message th...
The Hong Kong legislature has started its debate today on the single largest democratic reform plan in the city's history. No later than Friday, the legislature will vote on the motion to amend the Basic Law, and grant universal suffrage under a fram...
Wednesday is the World Day to Combat Desertification and Drought. For China it's an ongoing fight, but one where there's some light at the end of tunnel. In some areas, efforts have managed to reverse the effects of desertification, and brought the l...
China has made significant progress in controlling land degredation, but the latest official figures show that it still has many challenges to deal with. The State Forestry Administration says desertification has affected around 2-point-6 million squ...
A momentous moment for Hong Kong's democratic process. On Wednesday, legislators began a debate on the electoral reform proposal on the 2017 chief executive election. Under the plan, people in Hong Kong would choose their leader from two or three can...
Independent flight carriers are facing huge challenges to take off into skies crowded by their state-owned competitors. The aviation market is dominated by the major three state-run players, with Air China, China Eastern Airlines and China Southern a...
Much of the southern half of the country continues to battle heavy rains which have been nearly relentless for weeks. According to meteorological authorities. In China's Jiangxi and Guangxi areas the rainfall has already passed average precipitation...
China's first domestically-made submersible deep-sea drill completed its first trial run in the South China Sea on Sunday. The Sea Bull spent ten hours drilling 60 meters into the seabed under 3,000 meters of water. China is now the fourth country to...
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For more on General Fan's visit, we bring in our guest Peter Hakim, President Emeritus and senior fellow of the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington. q1. Mr Hakim, General Fan's visit to Cuba comes hot off the heels of his visit to the United States...
Cuba's state daily Granma says Chinese airlines are strengthening their air connections with Cuba. The daily says Air China is poised to launch a Beijing-Havana route starting in September, citing the Cuban's Ministry of Tourism. Air China will opera...
The Vice Chairman of China's Central Military Commission, General Fan Changlong has wrapped up his offcial visit to Cuba. He is the most senior Chinese official to visit the country since the beginning of a thaw in relations between the US and Cuba....
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has reiterated the need for innovation to improve manufacturing capacity in China. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang inspects China Nuclear Power Engineering Co., Ltd. in Beijing, capital of China, June 15, 2015. Li had an inspect...
China's Foreign Ministry has said the construction work on the Nansha islands and reefs falls with the scope of China's sovereignty, and is lawful, reasonable and justified. The ministry's spokesperson Lu Kang said the work is not meant to target any...
