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by Joanna Chiu Agence France Presse BEIJING, China (AFP) — The new United States ambassador to Beijing, known for his friendship with China’s president, said Wednesday he wanted terminally-ill dissident Liu Xiaobo to get treatment abroad, as Taiwan offered to care for the Nobel laureate. Ambassador Terry Branstad arrived in Beijing on Tuesday, one day after Liu’s lawyer revealed that prison authorities granted the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize laureate medical parole after diagnosing him with […]
(Eagle News) — The Chinese government donated around P15 millon for the relief operations and rehabilitation of the besieged city of Marawi Chinese Ambassador, H.E. Zhao Jianhua presented to President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday, June 27, “the P15-million check donation that will significantly augment the resources of the Department of Health (DOH) and Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD),” according to a Malacanang release. “The said donation from China to the Philippines is an […]
SHANGHAI, China (AFP) – An elderly passenger who threw coins at the engine of a plane at a Shanghai airport for good luck will not face police action, Chinese state media said on Wednesday. The superstitious 80-year-old woman delayed the China Southern Airlines flight on Tuesday for nearly six hours after she tossed nine coins at the engine from the tarmac while boarding, with one nestling inside. Police at Shanghai Pudong International Airport said the […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — Newly appointed United States Ambassador to China Terry Branstad said on Wednesday (June 28) there is a need to work together with China on some pressing issues, such as North Korea and expanding trade. Branstad also told reporters in Beijing that the US would like to see Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, who has late-stage liver cancer, receive treatment elsewhere if that would help. A former Iowa […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — China is facing the largest diabetes epidemic in the world with around 11 percent of its population suffering from the metabolic illness, while nearly 36 percent are prediabetic, according to a United States study published Tuesday. The survey, which included 170,287 participants and was conducted in 2013, was analyzed with the assistance of Linhong Wang from the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and was published in the Journal […]
CHINA (Reuters) – More than 2,500 professional rescuers and 25 sniffer dogs are working against time to search for 93 persons still missing in a landslide in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. One-year-old sniffer dog named Gege is one of those. This is the dog’s first time to participate in a rescue operation. Once he finds possible signs of life, Gege, the dog’s handlers said, would bark at rescuers. Sniffer dogs like Gege are working for […]
CHINA (Reuters) – The industrial profit growth of large enterprises in May continued a good momentum with a year on year growth of 16.7 percent, China’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) announced on Tuesday. The total industrial profits of large enterprises in May reached about 626 billion Yuan (around 95 billion US dollars), increasing 16.7 percent year on year. The growth rate is 2.7 percentage points higher than in April. The equipment manufacturing industry accounted […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has made a formal protest after Indian border guards crossed from Sikkim state into its Tibetan territory, China’s foreign ministry said Tuesday, accusing them of trespassing. “Our position to uphold our territorial sovereignty is unwavering,” spokesman Lu Kang told a regular briefing, adding China has lodged “solemn representations” with India. “We hope that the Indian side can work with China in the same direction and take actions to withdraw the […]
Japan’s largest warship, the Izumo, steamed into the South China Sea this week in defiance of China, with military guests from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on board to witness helicopters looping over the tropical waters and gunners blasting target buoys. China claims most of the energy-rich sea through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year, much of it to and from Japanese ports. Neighbors Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, […]
CHINA (Reuters) – A vehement rainstorm collapsed 367 houses, leaving 90, 000 people homeless in central China’s Hunan Province. Started early on Thursday morning (June 22), the torrential rain was the most violent one that has ever hit the province this year. By the end of Sunday (June 25), it battered 50 cities, counties and regions, left more than 1.62 people in predicament and causing a direct economic loss estimated at 1.99 billion yuan. The […]
SICHUAN PROVINCE, China (Reuters) – Rescue workers in southwestern China pulled bodies out of piles of rock and mud on Sunday (June 25) as they searched for 93 people missing after a landslide buried a mountain village, with some residents giving up hope of finding survivors. A huge landslide crashed down on the village of Xinmo, in mountainous Sichuan province, as dawn broke on Saturday. Authorities at the scene said on Sunday that 10 bodies […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) — China reiterated their opposition to any violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and urged all parties to exercise restraint on Friday (June 23), a day after North Korea carried out another test of a rocket engine. A U.S. official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity on Thursday (June 22), said the test, the latest in a series of engine and missile trials this year, could be part of the isolated […]
