China on Sunday lauded Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's visit to India, saying better ties between the two nuclear-armed neighbours will benefit both countries and bring stability in the region.
The virus, which has infected more than 14,562 people, continues to spread beyond China.
Chinese authorities have arrested 1,065 suspects over Internet-related crimes, including spreading rumours of a coup last week, after the sacking of an influential Communist Party leader. As many as 1,065 suspects have been arrested and 208,000 online "harmful" messages deleted as part of an intensive nationwide crackdown on Internet-related crimes conducted since mid-February, state run Xinhua news agency reported.
China on Tuesday executed four drug smugglers and sentenced 15 others to death sentence as the United Nations observed International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
The coronavirus outbreak began in Wuhan, capital of China's Hubei province, in December and has now spread across the globe. The Chinese authorities are trying to contain the epidemic while other countries, including India, are working on plans to evacuate their citizens from Wuhan and other cities in Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak.
Two Chinese surveillance ships on Friday entered the waters near disputed islands claimed by Tokyo and Beijing for the first time after they were bought by Japan from private parties.
Xi-Kim meeting took place amid concern in Beijing that the North Korean leader is getting too close to US sidelining China pointing to its declining importance in the Korean Peninsula peace process.
A Tibetan teenager on Thursday committed self-immolation even as China unveiled its once-in-a decade new leadership, led by Xi Jinping, to rule the country. This is the ninth suicide to have taken place since the week-long 18th Communist Party Congress started its session to elect its new leader on November 8.
The wife of disgraced leader Bo Xilai was on Monday handed a suspended death sentence by a Chinese court for the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood.
Ten people were killed and 27 injured in a dam burst in China due to heavy rains caused by typhoon Haikui which affected lakhs of people and toppled over 7,000 houses.
Chinese officials have told their Olympic badminton team leader and disgraced players to make a public apology following the deliberate throwing of matches at the London Games, the Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.
It marked the first major meeting between the two countries since President Trump pulled US armed forces out of northern Syria.
Panchen Lama, being groomed by China to rival exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, on Wednesday stepped out of the Chinese mainland for the first time to attend an international Buddhist conference in Hong Kong.
It will be interesting to see whether India-China border tensions figure during the deliberations of PLA deputies to the NPC and CPPCC, notes Jayadeva Ranade, the distinguished China expert and retired RA&W officer.
Asia's largest helicopter, built by China and weighing about 13 tonnes, on Thursday received the stamp of approval from the Civil Aviation Administration of the country.
All-weather friends, China and Pakistan on Thursday pledged to strengthen their military ties and step up their defence cooperation to a "new level" as Pakistan's Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani held talks with top Chinese military officials in Beijing.
The Chinese government has initiated a major campaign to clean-up fabricated online information spread on major Twitter-like microblogs after rumours stirred up worries about a possible coup recently.
The Communist Party of China has clipped the wings of Bo Xilai, a popular leader among netizens. B Raman explains why
We can expect to see more Chinese wolf warrior diplomats on the prowl, in India's neighbourhood, though its mailed fist is not so visible while dealing with India, observes Colonel R Hariharan (retd).
The death toll from the second coal mine explosion in China in the last four days rose to 15, taking the toll in the twin accidents to 59.
The rescuers have retrieved 34 bodies so far and six miners were pulled out alive from Wednesday night till Friday morning, a working team sent by the State Administration of Work Safety told state-run Xinhua news agency.
Blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng, who was at the centre of an extraordinary diplomatic crisis between China and the United States, on Saturday left for New York with his family after the Chinese government granted them passports. Chen, along with his wife and two children boarded a flight to Newark, near New York, after being taken from a Beijing hospital to the airport.
The warning came a day after China cautioned its students against going to the US for studies.
The high-profile trial of the wife of disgraced Chinese Communist Party leader Bo Xilai, for murdering a British businessman, turned out to be a one-day affair, with court saying she had admitted guilt and the verdict would be announced soon.
Organising committee says he was not kicked out
The cases of infection have been rising rapidly in Europe and other parts of the world, with Italy being the hardest-hit country.
China will step up its control on the management of the numerous Buddhist monasteries in Tibet and its prefectures in the wake of recurring self-immolations by monks, which it alleges are instigated by the Dalai Lama. Senior officials of Tibet Autonomous Region have pledged stepped-up efforts to strengthen the management of monasteries in the fight against the Dalai Lama group, official new agency Xinhua reported.
It was higher than 3.2 per cent rate registered in February, the lowest pace recorded in 20 months, state run Xinhua reported.
A Chinese vessel was hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Oman on Friday. The cargo ship belonging to a Nanjing company was hijacked at about 9:30 am local time (1030 IST) in the Sea of Oman near the Iranian port Chabahar, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
He murdered his parents because they refused to repay his debts and also murdered 17 neighbours, including children, to cover up his crimes.
China on Wednesday launched a blistering attack on the Dalai Lama, terming him the "hatchet man of anti-China forces" and calling the recent spate of suicides by Tibetan monks and nuns as an orchestrated attempt to create chaos.
Chinese Olympic weightlifting champion Liao Hui has been suspended for doping, ruling him out of next year's London Games, state news agency Xinhua reported on Friday.
The explosion, which was caused by a liquefied petroleum gas leak shattered windows in nearby buildings, blew away a bus stop sign and destroyed several cars parked in the neighbourhood, according to a fireman at the scene, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Strategic consideration were the reasons behind frequent meetings between United States President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Chinese state-run media said on Wednesday and cautioned India that it cannot rise by "containing" China or picking one side against the other.
BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - should combine their "huge potential" to better coordinate on issues such as the world economy, the democratic and equitable world order and global governance reform, Singh told China's Xinhua news agency.
China has completed its new mega airport in Beijing after four years of construction, three months ahead of its planned grand opening. Measuring at 1.03 million square metres -- about the size of 144 football pitches -- the Beijing Daxing International Airport will be the world's largest airport terminal, according to Xinhua News. Here's a peak at the gargantuan structure.
Tax revenues rose 10.3 per cent year-on-year to 2.5858 trillion yuan ($410.4 billion) in the first quarter, China's Finance Ministry was quoted as saying by state run news agency Xinhua.
China on Thursday dismissed reports about the death of former president Jiang Zemin as "pure rumour", after days of intense speculation about his health.
In the second case of its kind in China, a teenage boy sold his kidney to buy an Apple iPhone and iPad.
Sixty-five workers were killed and over 100 others injured today when an explosion ripped through a metal factory in China's eastern Jiangsu Province, causing widespread damage to the sprawling industrial unit.
