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BEIJING: China has made major progress in developing its economy and eradicating rural poverty over the past year despite the coronavirus pandemic, Chinese President Xi Jinping said in a New Year address Thursday. China was the first…

BEIJING: China has given conditional approval to a coronavirus vaccine developed by state-owned Sinopharm. The vaccine is the first one approved for general use in China. Chen Shifei, the deputy commissioner of China's Medical Production…

BRUSSELS: The European Union on Tuesday demanded that China release citizen journalist Zhang Zhan and several other jailed reporters, lawyers and human rights champions. The EU statement was issued just ahead of Brussels signing a major…

WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump has signed into law a bill that reaffirms the right of Tibetans to choose a successor to the Dalai Lama and calls for establishing an American consulate in Tibet, prompting China to warn that the act…

BEIJING: At least seven people were killed and another seven injured in a knife attack in northeastern China, state media reported on Sunday. The attack in the city of Kaiyuan in Liaoning province was carried out outside a sauna and…

BEIJING: China on Monday defended the ongoing joint exercises of its air force with that of Pakistan, saying the drills were not directed against any third country and India should view them objectively. The Air Forces of China and…

BEIJING: China's Chang'e-5 probe, which successfully returned to earth this week, has retrieved about 1,731 grams of samples from the moon, the country's space agency said on Saturday. The samples were transferred to the Chinese research…

WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on Friday signed legislation that would kick Chinese companies off US stock exchanges unless they adhere to American auditing standards, the White House said, giving the Republican one more tool to…

SINGAPORE: The World Health Organization said on Thursday that China had welcomed an international team of investigators into Covid-19 expected to travel to the country in early January. Babatunde Olowokure, the WHO's regional…

LONDON: The Communist Party of China hasn't made even little tweaks in its larger, nefarious agenda of systematically eliminating ethnic minority Uyghurs from its northwestern Xinjiang province, experts and Uyghur Muslims living in…