Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived here Sunday afternoon for the first leg of his maiden foreign trip since he took office in March. During his visit, Li will meet Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, President Pranab Mukherjee and Hamid Ansari, Chairman of Rajya Sabha (the Upper House) of India’s Parliament and Vice President....
TAIPEI – Taiwan Sunday repeated calls for a joint investigation into the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman by Philippine coastguards, an incident which has ignited a major diplomatic dispute. A team of Taiwanese investigators returned to the island Saturday, accusing the Philippine government of failing to honor its agreement to conduct a joint probe....
BERLIN (Reuters) – German Economy Minister Philipp Roesler said the European Commission made a “grave mistake” by agreeing to impose punitive import duties on solar panels from China and urged the Commission to work to prevent the eruption of a trade conflict. “It’s a grave mistake,” Roesler told Welt am Sonntag newspaper on Sunday. He...
By Kevin Yao BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping has taken charge of drawing up ambitious reform plans to revitalise the economy, sources close to the government said, shunning policy stimulus for fear it could worsen local government debt and inflate property prices. A consensus had been reached among top leaders that reforms...
A salesperson (R) talks to a customer behind models of a residential compound at a real estate exhibition in Wuxi, Jiangsu province May 18, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Stringer By Xiaoyi Shao and Michael Martina BEIJING | Sat May 18, 2013 4:28am EDT (Reuters) – China’s housing inflation accelerated to its fastest pace in April in two years, driven...
More Chinese are travelling abroad than ever before A senior Chinese Communist Party official has called for Chinese tourists to behave more politely when travelling abroad. Wang Yang, one of China’s four vice-prime ministers, said the “uncivilised behaviour” of some Chinese tourists was harming the country’s image. Among problems he singled out were...
KIRUNA, Sweden, (Xinhua) — China, together with five other states, has been granted observer status in the Arctic Council on Wednesday. China, India, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea and Singapore were granted new Observer States status at the Eighth Ministerial Meeting of the Arctic Council convened in Kiruna, the northernmost city of Sweden. Gao...
TAIPEI (AFP) – Taiwan Wednesday slapped sanctions on the Philippines, including a ban on the hiring of new workers, rejecting an apology by President Benigno Aquino for the killing of a Taiwanese fisherman. Philippine coastguards shot dead the 65-year-old last week after they said his vessel illegally sailed into Philippine waters, and outrage in...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – China launched a large missile on Monday that reached 6,200 miles above the earth, its highest suborbital launch since 1976, according to a U.S. scientist at Harvard University. Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said the rocket was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in western China,...
Li Baodong (R front), China’s permanent representative to the United Nations, speaks during a UN General Assembly meeting on Syria, at the UN headquarters in New York, on May 15, 2013. China reaffirmed on Wednesday that political solution is the only right way out for the Syrian issue, stressing that forcibly pushing forward the...
