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CHINESE Premier Li Keqiang is set to visit the Philippines for an official visit, and is set to attend a series of high-level meetings, including the 12th East Asia Summit. Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Hua Chunying announced this at a regular news briefing on Monday, November 7. “Premier Li Keqiang will visit Manila to attend the 20th China-ASEAN (10+1) Leaders’ Meeting, the 20th ASEAN-China, Japan and Republic of Korea (10+3) Leaders’ Meeting and the 12th […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — Xi Jinping and Donald Trump have one thing in common — they both want to make their nations great again. But while China’s leader is on the rise, the US president arrives in Beijing laden down with heavy baggage. Xi will roll out the red carpet for Trump when his five-nation Asia tour takes him to China on Wednesday, bringing the leaders of the world’s top-two economies together for the third […]
HONG KONG, China (AFP) — Asian markets rose Tuesday, tracking records on Wall Street as investors appeared to shrug off nervousness over tensions on the Korean peninsula, with US President Donald Trump visiting Seoul. US stocks hit fresh highs for the second straight day while London’s FTSE 100 also powered to a new record close. The positive trend continued in Asia, where markets edged up despite concerns that Trump’s two-day visit to South Korea would […]
QUEZON CITY, Philippines (Eagle News) — Magdalo Party-List Representative Gary Alejano expressed alarm after China launched its dredging vessel which was dubbed its “magic island-maker.” Alejano said that with the recent addition to China’s maritime arsenal, the move will allow China to aggressively reclaim more areas in the West Philippine Sea. “This newest addition to China’s maritime arsenal provides increased and faster capacity to dredge and reclaim islands,” said Alejano. He is referring to the […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China’s military has been ordered to pledge absolute loyalty to President Xi Jinping while a paramilitary police force now literally sings his praises, further cementing his place as the country’s most powerful leader in decades. The world’s largest armed forces should be “absolutely loyal, honest and reliable to Xi”, said a new guideline issued by the Central Military Commission and reported by state news agency Xinhua late Sunday. China’s military personnel […]
YUNNAN, China (CCTV) — Hundreds of red-breasted parakeets, a species of parrot, have flocked to the city of Ruili in southwest China recently, attracting photographers across the country to capture the spectacular sights. Red-breasted parakeets would come in droves to Ruili in Yunnan Province’s Dai-Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture every autumn when the corn on the farmland by the Ruili River is ripe. Thanks to the sound local ecological environment, more and more red-breasted parakeets are coming […]
WASHINGTON, United States (CCTV) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s first state visit to China will set a positive tone for the future development of relations between the world’s two largest economies, Chinese Ambassador to the United States Cui Tiankai said in a recent press briefing in Washington D.C. Trump is scheduled for a trip to China on Nov. 8-10, a visit that both Beijing and Washington D.C. expect to bear bountiful fruit and inject new […]
BEIJING, China (CCTV) — China on Sunday launched two BeiDou-3 satellites into space via a single carrier rocket to support its global navigation and positioning network. The satellites were aboard a Long March-3B carrier rocket, which took off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in the southwestern province of Sichuan at 19:45. This is the first duo of BeiDou-3 satellites launched by China, as its self-developed BeiDou Navigation Satellite System officially began to expand into a […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has passed legislation to punish anyone who disrespects the national anthem with up to three years in prison, state media reported Saturday. The changes to China’s criminal law were approved during a committee meeting of the country’s rubberstamp parliament, the National People’s Congress (NPC), according to the official Xinhua news agency. “Serious cases of disrespecting the country’s national anthem in public would get punishments including deprivation of political rights, […]
BEIJING, China (Agence France Presse) — China has unveiled a massive ship described as a “magic island maker” that is Asia’s largest dredging vessel, state media reported Saturday. The ship, capable of building artificial islands of the sort the country has constructed in the contested South China Sea, was launched Friday at a port in eastern Jiangsu province, according to the state-owned China Daily. The boat named Tian Kun Hao is capable of digging 6,000 […]
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — The global smartphone market has momentum going into the year-end holiday shopping season, according to preliminary figures released Thursday by International Data Corporation (IDC). An estimated 373.1 million smartphones were shipped worldwide during the third quarter of this year in a 2.7 percent rise from the same period in 2016, IDC said in a statement. While IDC analysts considered the growth low, they saw it as a sign “the industry still has […]
by Elizabeth Broomhall ZHUHAI, China (AFP) — Women’s Tennis Association chief executive Steve Simon said he wants the WTA Finals to become the last event of the season from 2019, meaning a likely swap with the ongoing Elite Trophy in Zhuhai. Simon said the Elite Trophy, which features 12 players ranked roughly from nine to 20, should precede the WTA Finals, the traditional season finale which has the women’s top eight and which finished on Sunday. “Several years […]
