Dismissing provocative comments made by a 'Major General' of the Chinese Peoples Liberation Army who sparked a controversy ahead of Defence Minister A K Antony's visit, officials in Beijing on Saturday said that the officer was superannuated and retired from political and military posts a while ago.
Technology major Apple Inc has been fined $165,908 by a court in Beijing for allegedly selling unlicensed electronic versions of books online.
China is offering low-priced tickets to watch Michael Schumacher and other participants in the country's first-ever Formula One race.
Billionaire industrialist Anil Ambani on Monday said business leaders from India and China should enhance Rupee-RMB-Dollar trade for furthering co-operation between the two nations.
The fact that the US recovery needs an elaborate defence suggests that things are far from certain.
Reigning junior world champion Nikhat Zareen (54kg) settled for a silver medal after her winning run was finally halted at the AIBA Women's Youth World Boxing Championships in Albena, Bulgaria on Sunday.
China is one of the biggest markets for JLR. The sales reached 53,000 units in the first nine months of the year, up 80 per cent from a year earlier
The firms confessed that they held 53 meetings between 2001 and 2006 to fix the prices of flat panels.
Following is the schedule of the Indian contingent on the 11th day of the Asian Games in Jakarta on Wednesday.
Six-time world champion M C Mary Kom (51kg) qualified for Tokyo Olympics by advancing to the semi-final with a comfortable win over Philippines' Irish Magno, at the Asia/Oceania Qualifiers in Amman, on Monday. World number one Amit Panghal (52kg) qualified for his maiden Olympic Games, while Manish Kaushik (63kg) remained in the hunt for a Tokyo ticket despite losing his quarter-final bout.
China will develop Tibet's picturesque Nyingchi prefecture, located close to Arunachal Pradesh border, into a major tourist hub with an investment of $63.5 million which included construction of 22 "well-off model villages".
The Chinese have built submarines, planes from recycled materials and helicopters with wooden blades.
China has made the world's first electric passenger aircraft that could be used in pilot training, tourism, meteorology and rescue operations.
In October-December, demand in India dips 42% to 173 tonnes; China consumes 190.6 tonnes
The Prime Minister's Office has refused to give information on the expenses incurred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent visit to Singapore saying it is too "vague" and "wide".
Despite the rupee losing value against the dollar, Indian exports fell in April-November by nearly 6 per cent. China, on the other hand, managed to retain export competitiveness and registered a 7 per cent growth in exports during the same period, despite the yuan rising against the dollar.
The hike in the defence spending was announced as the Chinese legislature, the National People's Congress opened its annual session, which this year also marks the once-in-a-decade power transfer.
Over 23 million people were brought above the poverty line in China last year as about 100 million people from rural areas moved to cities for work.
Young Ritu Malik kept India in medal contention by reaching the bronze play-off ,but there was no end to the woes of Sakshi Malik, who suffered a humiliating quarter-final defeat, and Ritu Phogat at the World Championship , in Budapest, on Wednesday.
The Indian cueist, who maintained a clean slate in the group stage with an all-win record, trounced Germany's Lukas Kleckers 6-0.
The deteriorating situation in China, a market that businesses around the world rely upon for growth, has spooked investors and prompted warnings from top companies like Apple.
The Indian lost his quarter-final match to local favourite Zhengming Wang in straight games at the US$ 350,000 China Open Super Series Premier badminton event, in Shanghai, on Friday.
Tata Motors is stripped off India's most valuable company tag.
Still, it is not expected to gain much strength and will likely trade around Rs 63.00 to the US dollar by the end of April.
China's software industry grew slightly faster in the first five months of this year, boosted by government's preferential tax policies.
'The killings are a worrisome escalation of tensions, but little is known about the immediate causes or results of the fight in Galwan and it is not possible, at this point, to assign blame'
Profits of major industrial firms slipped 5.4 per cent year-on-year to 366.8 billion yuan (about $59 billion) in July, the National Bureau of Statistics said in a statement.
During the first four months, mobile phone users saw a net increase of nearly 43.8 million, data of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology in Beijing said.
In a relief for Tibetan spiritual leader Ogyen Trinely Dorje, a court in Himachal Pradesh on Monday accepted the plea of the prosecution to drop the conspiracy charge against him in the case relating to recovery of foreign currencies from his monastery in January last year.
The government has set seven per cent as the GDP target for this year.
Chinese farmers are at their inventive best.
The number of millionaires in China crossed a million mark for the first in the Communist nation, putting it in the elite club of the wealthy nations like US and Japan.
The shopping day, similar to Cyber Monday and Black Friday in the United States, comes less than eight weeks after Alibaba's record $25 billion public share listing in New York.
Keeps open the option to make payments in yen or yuan in the face of sanctions
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.
Speaking to reporters at the ongoing South Asian Diaspora Convention in Singapore, Gupta highlighted the funding deficit faced by infrastructure projects in India and the rest of the region, while the high saving rate among the Chinese was boosting the RMB deposit base in Hong Kong and Singapore, already estimated to be over $3 trillion.
American search engine Google, which recently accused the Chinese government of blocking its services, has been charged with tax evasion along with three of its affiliate companies.
An economic superpower, China is marching ahead to become the world's largest economy.
In 2011, the rupee emerged as the most vulnerable Asian currency on the block. It depreciated by almost 19 per cent in 2011, while for the others depreciation was mostly in single digits. The Chinese Yuan actually appreciated in this period.
In the bustling Chinese city of Shanghai, around 132,000 people have a personal wealth of 10 million yuan ($1.54 million).
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