China
5 Mar
China will on Tuesday set a goal of five percent gross domestic product (GDP) growth and raise the military budget by over seven percent in 2024, an official copy of a government work report seen by AFP showed.
5 Mar
The Chairman, 14th Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) National Committee, Wang Huning, Monday, explained that the conference has within the last one year, carried out friendly exchanges with organizations, officials and academicians from other countries to help create a favorable external environment.
24 Feb
... Spring festival belongs to China, world Consul General of the People’s Republic of China in Lagos, Yan Yuqing, has promised to continue traditional Chinese virtues of helping those in need and aiding those in peril while celebrating 'Spring Festival' Yuqing said China has contributed to charity that will further promote people-to-people exchanges, work for…
22 Feb
A Chinese tech security firm was able to breach foreign governments, infiltrate social media accounts and hack personal computers, a massive data leak analysed by experts this week revealed. The trove of documents from I-Soon, a private company that competed for Chinese government contracts, shows that its hackers compromised more than a dozen governments, according…
22 Feb
China said Thursday it had signed agreements to send pandas to a zoo in San Diego after nearly all the beloved black-and-white animals on loan in the United States were returned during years of diplomatic tensions. Foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning told a regular press briefing that "Chinese institutions have already signed agreements with... the…
21 Feb
Chinese sporting authorities have cancelled next month's international friendly between Argentina and Nigeria's Super Eagles over a row involving eight-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi. World champions Argentina were billed to play Nigeria in the Chinese city of Hangzhou in March before facing AFCON 2023 winners Elephants of Côte d'Ivoire in Beijing But Messi's failure…
20 Feb
The President of the People’s Republic of China, Xi Jinping, has congratulated the African Union on its 37th summit.
7 Feb
The strategically-placed Indian Ocean nation of the Maldives, which has borrowed heavily from China and shifted allegiance from India, is at high risk of "debt distress," the IMF warned Wednesday.
2 Feb
A Chinese couple, Zhang Bo and Ye Chengchen, were executed on Wednesday for the 2020 murders of their two young children, a two-year-old girl and a one-year-old boy. The case sparked outrage in China due to the deliberate and brutal nature of the killings. Zhang and Ye, who began an affair while he was still…
2 Feb
China's economic slowdown is likely to persist in the coming years as the Asian giant struggles with sagging productivity and a rapidly aging population, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Friday.
31 Jan
China's global dominance in electric cars helped it overtake Japan as the world's biggest vehicle exporter last year, official data confirmed Wednesday.
30 Jan
At the end of December 2023, the Central Conference on Work Relating to Foreign Affairs was held in Beijing, and Mr. Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, delivered an important speech in the conference
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