BEIJING — Passengers and crew foiled a hijacking attempt by six people on a plane in China’s far-western Xinjiang region Friday, a regional airline and state media said. An overseas rights group, however, denied a hijacking attempt took place and said a seat dispute triggered an in-air brawl. The Tianshan regional government’s news portal said...
Hong Kong (CNN) — President Hu Jintao of China arrived in Hong Kong on Friday ahead the 15th anniversary of the territory’s handover from Britain, an event likely to bring into focus the city’s complex feelings about Beijing’s influence. Hong Kong has prospered since its last British governor, Chris Patten, bade the territory a...
By Christopher Bodeen, Associated Press China’s first female astronaut Liu Yang waves as she comes out of the re-entry capsule of Shenzhou-9 spacecraft in China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Friday, June 29, 2012. Liu and two other crew members returned safely to earth Friday from a 13-day mission to an orbiting prototype space station. The...
Editor’s note: Leroy Chiao is a former NASA astronaut and commander of the International Space Station. He served as a member of the 2009 Review of U.S. Human Spaceflight Plans Committee, and is the special adviser for human spaceflight to the Space Foundation. (CNN) — In May, SpaceX became the first of the...
Tests confirm pottery fragments found in a cave in south China date back 20,000 years, making them the oldest known pottery in the world, the journal Science reports. The pottery is believed to have been used by mobile foragers who hunted and gathered during the Late Glacian Maximum, the high point of the Ice...
Beijing (Financial Times) — China plans to create a special zone to experiment with currency convertibility in Shenzhen, the city where it introduced key economic reforms three decades ago. The measure will enable Hong Kong banks to lend renminbi directly to companies in Qianhai Bay — a new economic zone on a peninsula...
China’s national legislature adopted a new law Saturday that will target foreigners who are living and working in China illegally, the official Xinhua News Agency said, adding that the government encourages citizens to inform on suspected illegal workers. The law approved by the National People’s Congress Standing Committee now requires foreigners to obtain valid...
BEIJING — China blocked access to Bloomberg’s website on the mainland after the business and financial news agency published a report Friday detailing the multimillion-dollar assets of relatives of the man set to become the country’s next president. The report says that the extended family of Vice President Xi Jinping holds interests that include investments...
An ex-police chief whose shocking visit to a U.S. consulate led to the fall of a prominent Chinese politician has resigned from the national legislature, state media reported Saturday, a sign that he might be a step closer to formal arrest and trial. Wang Lijun, the former police chief of south China’s Chongqing metropolis,...
(Reuters) – China’s Shenzhou 9 spacecraft returned to Earth on Friday, ending a mission that put the country’s first woman in space and completed a manned docking test critical to its goal of building a space station by 2020. The spacecraft’s gumdrop-shaped return capsule descended to Earth by parachute and touched down shortly after...
