BEIJING: China will expand a "white list" of housing projects eligible for financing and increase bank lending for such developments to 4 trillion yuan (US$562 billion), Minister of Housing and Urban-Rural Development Ni Hong said on Thursday (Oct 1
TAIPEI: China is building its capacity to rapidly turn military drills into a full-out attack711bet, a senior Taiwan security official said, providing the Taipei government's assessment of the strategic intent behind Beijing's war games around the i
BEIJING: China has jailed 15 people for their roles in a building collapse that killed dozens and sparked a public scandal over construction standards, state media said on Thursday (Oct 17). In April 2022, a commercial building in the central city o
SINGAPORE: Health authorities in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou are sounding the alarm over a surge in domestic dengue fever casesmegapanalo, calling for residents to be alert and do their part in curbing the spread of the mosquito-borne dis
BEIJING: China urged India on Thursday (Oct 17) to handle Taiwan issues with caution and avoid interference in the improvement of Sino-India relations following the opening of another Taiwan de facto consulate in Mumbai. China opposes moves by any c
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2024-10-18Sixty years ago, in the remote Lop Nur desert in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, China successfully detonated its first atomic bomb, code-named “Miss Qiu”. The test, on Oct 16, 1964, and the fission chain reaction it triggered, melted the top
BEIJING: China's economy likely expanded at its slowest pace this year, according to an AFP survey ahead of data on Friday (Oct 18), as authorities struggle to reignite consumption amid a chronic debt crisis in the property sector. Officials have in
WASHINGTON: Myanmar has tied China for the world's worst record on internet freedompwbet gaming, with declines reported in a number of other countries led by Kyrgyzstan, a study said on Wednesday (Oct 16). The further deterioration in Myanmar, a Bei
BEIJING/TAIPEI: China will never commit to renouncing the use of force over Taiwan, the government in Beijing said on Wednesday (Oct 16) after another bout of war games and a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to the scene of a famous defeat for