China is planning a 'New Silk Road' at a cost of $660 million that will run through Central Asia and continue into Europe, crossing the Pamir Plateau, to facilitate improved transport and trade.
On a five-day rolling basis, FPI selling is the highest in 24 years.
Chinese President Hu Jintao has said that Beijing regards its relationship with New Delhi as one of the most important bilateral ties.
The United States has recognised that territory (Arunachal Pradesh) for a long time (as an integral part of India), White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.
The commission added that 11,977 patients remained in severe condition, and 5,248 people were suspected of being infected with the virus, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
China's external debt crossed $751 billion in March, highest since it embarked on economic reforms in 1985, even as debt ridden local governments have been barred from issuing bonds directly to raise revenues.
China's "charm diplomacy" on India is bearing fruit in terms of mutual cooperation, but it may not be enough to eliminate all suspicions in the backdrop of New Delhi's plans to launch long rage Agni-V missile, an article in an official daily in Beijing said.
Hantaviruses are a family of viruses spread mainly by rodents and can cause varied disease syndromes in people worldwide, according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) which is the leading national public health institute of the United States.
China plans to send as many as eight satellites into space before 2020 to provide ocean and land data and supervise the marine environment, a senior official has said. The new satellites will greatly improve China's ability to observe and supervise the marine environment.
There is no official announcement yet on the fate of the 123 passengers and nine crew members as hopes receded about finding any survivors, considering that the plane crashed and exploded in a mountainous area.
With labour disputes involving demands for higher wages increasing across China, a top trade union official has demanded democratic election of union leaders to ensure their better functioning at grassroot level.
As COVID-19 cases in China continue to rise, Beijing will soon start distributing Pfizer's Covid-19 drug Paxlovid to the community health centres in forthcoming days, CNN reported citing state media on Monday.
Sina Weibo has said that it now has about 450,000 users in the US.
United Spirits Ltd will launch five brands in China as part of its entry into the communist country's market.
The eastern theatre command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army successfully completed all tasks of its combat readiness patrols and exercises around Taiwan Island, official media in Beijing reported.
In 2012, ZTE India posted a small rate of growth, realising revenues of $700 million, around half the $1.5 billion it received in 2009, a write up in the state run China Daily titled 'ZTE banks Indian telecom market' said.
"By cooperating on regional and international affairs, the two countries will better safeguard each of their interests and those of the developing world at large," the state-run China Daily said in its editorial marking the 60th anniversary of bilateral ties.
Even senior Indian officials have openly stated that Chinese troops did not enter into the Indian territory, Wang said.
Tata Motors owned Land Rover is likely to be manufactured in China, through a joint venture with Chinese automobile major Chery Automobile Co Ltd, and is awaiting final clearance, a report said.
'The real issue between India and China is that the Chinese have transgressed along the Line of Actual Control at multiple points.'
At least 39 Chinese companies and individuals have attempted to register the names iPhone or iPad as trademarks.
The police recovered drugs worth $120,000 from the gang, led by a 47-year-old woman named Tan Guiqin.
People's Daily, the mouthpiece of the ruling Communist Party of China, on Monday described Indo-US nuclear deal a "major blow" to non-proliferation, apparently reflecting the Chinese government's thinking on the issue.
As suicide bids continued unabated in Tibetan-inhabited areas seeking the return of the Dalai Lama, China, for the first time in recent months, has indicated its willingness to reopen the stalled talks with him if he "truly gives up Tibetan independence." "The central government has also made clear its willingness for talks if the Dalai Lama truly gives up Tibetan independence. The door remains open to him," the state-run China Daily said on Monday.
However, the 6,000-odd athletes, 3,000 performers, 300,000 spectators and dozens of world leaders had to endure heavy rain for much of the event.
Chongqing, a populous economic hub in south-western China, is hoping to become Asia's largest manufacturing base for information technology products.
'As we enter 2025, it must be acknowledged that there is a convergence of capital, influential people (from business and politics) and technology deciding the destiny of others in the name of pride, patriotism, nationalism, nation building, all of it thinly veiled disguises for personal profit and glory,' asserts Shyam G Menon.
From the landing of Chandrayaan 3 to the bombardment of Palestine by Israel, a look at some events that shaped the world in the second half of 2023.
16 athletes from nine sporting disciplines failed doping tests in 2003.
International oil prices continue to be extremely volatile, falling on one day and rising thereafter, a top oil ministry official said explaining the reason behind no reduction in petrol and diesel prices despite softening in input cost, but could not say if the rates will be cut before Maharashtra elections. Global oil benchmark Brent crude futures fell below $70 per barrel last week -- the first time since December 2021 -- but gained thereafter. Brent was trading at $74.58 per barrel on Thursday while West Texas Intermediate advanced to trade at $71.71.
Most Americans believe close relationship between the United States and China is good for their country, according to a latest poll on Tuesday.
China is ready to resume negotiations after nearly five years with Taiwan if the island nation accepts the "one China" principle, the state media reported.
Dr Kissinger, then US president Richard M Nixon's national security adviser, feigned illness on a visit to Pakistan in July 1971 and made a secret trip to Peking, as Beijing was then called, to begin the process of a rapprochement between America and China. It was a debt that Chinese leaders have never forgotten.
Energy-hungry China has signed a landmark $40 billion deal to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Australia for 20 years that Chinese officials say would put the strained relations between Beijing and Canberra back on track.
China will reform its foreign exchange system in an orderly way and will not bend to pressure from the US to float the yuan, governor of the People's Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan has asserted.
Stop complaining about the traffic jams in Gurgaon or Mumbai. This is definitely the mother of all snarls.
Qiang Wei, the head of Beijing Olympic Security Co-ordination Group, said the 2008 Olympics security budget would be unveiled shortly
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