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BEIJING, China (AFP) — China pleaded again for dialogue on Monday to ease regional tensions after North Korea launched its latest missile test in defiance of United Nations sanctions. The Chinese foreign ministry urged Pyongyang in a statement to refrain from activities that go against UN Security Council resolutions. “We hope that related parties can remain calm and restrained, ease the tension on the peninsula, and bring the peninsula issue into the right track of peaceful […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — China has urged the Group of Seven leading economies to “stop making irresponsible remarks” after the G7 summit expressed concern about the situation in the East and South China Seas. China has a dispute with Japan over small uninhabited islands in the East China Sea, while its claim to most of the South China Sea is challenged by the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan. In their closing communique in Italy […]
NAIROBI, Kenya (Reuters) – A China-funded railway connecting the Kenyan capital with a key port brings a wide range of benefits to the country, said Kenya’s railway chief during a recent interview with China Global Television Network. The Mombasa-Nairobi railway will soon be in service. It will help cut the travel time of a 400-kilometer distance from about six hours to four. Atanas K. Maina, Managing Director of Kenya Railways, said the railway will help […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) – A car hit a tricycle at a crossroads in Haimen City of east China’s Jiangsu Province on Wednesday, leaving the tricycle driver trapped underneath the car, as shown by footage from roadside monitoring cameras. The car overturned on its side after hitting the tricycle and then trapped the elderly driver of the tricycle. Many passers-by came over to help lift the car and pull out the trapped driver. “The old man […]
YANG JIANG, China (CCTV) — A grandma from northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province challenged people’s concept of the elderly people’s lifestyle and became an internet hit by parachute-jumping from an altitude of 4,000 meters. Zuo Shufen, nearly 70 years old, flew to south China’s Guangdong Province with her granddaughter to experience skydiving during this year’s Labor Day Holiday. “My granddaughter suggested parachute-jumping last year, so this year I went with her without telling my son. I felt quite […]
JILIN, China (Reuters) – Siberian tigers and Amur leopards are wild animals that are rarely seen, even in pictures. But with infrared cameras, more and more live images of these rare wild beasts are seen by the general public in northeast China’s Jilin Province. “When we first installed these cameras in 2013, we were just lucky enough to capture the image of tigers once a year. Now we tour these cameras every two months and we […]
BEIJING, China (Reuters) – The Chinese mainland welcomes participation by Taiwan in the Belt and Road construction to share development opportunities, a mainland spokesperson told a press briefing on Thursday in Beijing. Spokesperson for State Council Taiwan Affairs Office An Fengshan, said that the cross-Strait communication and negotiation mechanisms have been broken off because of the Democratic Progressive Party’s refusal to recognize the 1992 Consensus. The mainland, however, still expects and welcomes the participation of Taiwan […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — The Chinese government charged on Thursday that a US warship had entered its waters in the South China Sea “without permission”, prompting Beijing’s navy to warn the vessel to leave. The USS Dewey sailed less than 12 nautical miles from Mischief Reef — part of the Spratly Islands — on Thursday morning local time, a US official said earlier, the first freedom of navigation operation under President Donald Trump. “The relevant action […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – A United States warship sailed near a reef claimed by Beijing in the South China Sea on Thursday, a US official said, the first such operation by US President Donald Trump’s administration in the disputed waterway. The USS Dewey sailed “less than 12 nautical miles” from Mischief Reef — part of the Spratly Islands — early Thursday morning local time, the official said on condition of anonymity. The guided-missile destroyer’s […]
WUZHEN, China (Reuters) — A Google artificial intelligence program defeated a Chinese grand master at the ancient board game Go on Tuesday (May 23), a major feather in the cap for the firm’s AI ambitions. In the first of three planned games in the eastern water town of Wuzhen, the AlphaGo program held off China’s world number one Ke Jie in front of Chinese officials and Google parent Alphabet’s chief executive Eric Schmidt. The victory […]
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — A US Navy ship has sailed in disputed South China Sea waters near a reef claimed by Beijing in the first “freedom of navigation” exercise under President Donald Trump, a US official said. The USS Dewey sailed “less than 12 nautical miles” from Mischief Reef — part of the Spratly Islands — early Thursday morning local time, the official said. The exercise is likely to provoke anger from Beijing as the […]
SHANGHAI, China (Reuters) – China’s self-developed satellite payload test system made its maiden appearance at the eighth China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC). At the 2017 CNSC which opened Tuesday in Shanghai, a satellite payload test system developed by the National University of Defense Technology was displayed. The newly released system marks a landmark progress in the country’s satellite research and development. It broke a technological bottleneck because previous devices were custom-designed only. The test system […]
