China floods leads to landslide, 21 missing

Heavy rains and flooding in southern China lead to a landslide which left 21 people missing on Tuesday. This added to a growing death toll from China’s worst flood season in a decade, which is expected to worsen with heavy rains forecast across the country. The 21 people missing after a landslide in Hanyuan County [...]

Flood kills 701 in China’s worst flooding in the decade

The said worst flooding in China in the decade have caused several hundred people killed and missing and also thousand of people left without houses that lead China to a total damage of 142.2 billion yuan. The flood has killed 701 people and people of about 347 were reported missing. This is said to be [...]

Tropical Storm Conson Moves Though Philippines Leaving 18 dead, 57 Missing

18 people were killed and 57 others remain missing after Tropical Storm Conson raked Philippines on Wednesday, the country’s National Disaster Coordinating Council reported. The storm, which is known as “Basyang” in Philippines, had weakened slightly, the council said. As of 4 p.m. Wednesday, its maximum sustained winds were at 53 mph  near its center and [...]

China’s Foreign Reserves Increase to $2.45 Million

The foreign reserves for China have reached $2.45 trillion dollars by the end of June, a 15.1 percent increase year on year, the central bank said Sunday. Despite the rise, its reserves increased by only $7.2 billion in the second quarter. This shows a sharp drop from the first quarter when it grew by $126.5 billion, [...]

Toyota and Honda factories halt production due to strikes

Toyota Motor Corp. along with Honda Motor Corp. had stopped production at some of their factories in southern China Wednesday. This is after two suppliers were closed due to strikes and extending disputes at parts makers in the nation at least eight in a month. Honda, which is Japan’s No. 2 automaker said that production [...]

Flood in China kills hundreds

China has been in rain and flood for last few days. This rain has been deadly for the residents of Southern China where it killed more than 132 people. And it has not stopped yet. According to Meteorological Centre, there is chance of more rain storms in coming days. 86 people are missing and more [...]

117 killed in the ethnic violence in Kyrgyzstan

A "well-known person" which was suspected of fomenting the worst ethnic riots for about 20 years now, was arrested Monday by the Kyrgyzstan’s interim government. The Health Ministry said that 117 had been killed in the clash. Ninety-three in Osh and twenty four in Jalalabad and many more has been wounded in the violence which [...]

Honda hit by strike in China

Honda Motor Corporation was hit by a strike as workers walked off the job Wednesday that forced the company to stop operating and halt the production. This happens at two of its Chinese car assembly plants. Production at Honda’s other two China car assembly plants was not affected though because they had a sufficient supply [...]

Chinese scientists discover use for cigarette butts

Chinese scientists found a purpose of cigarette butts. The scientists found that  the chemicals extracted from cigarette butts can be used to protect steel pipes from rusting. The scientists in China said they identified nine chemicals after immersing cigarette butts in water. They applied the extracts to a type of steel used in oil pipes [...]

Floods in southern China kill 70

Heavy rains have swept across southern China, toppling homes, destroying crops and killing at least 70 people, state media reported on Tuesday, adding that more flooding was expected. The flooding from rains have damaged over 80,000 homes and large swaths of cropland, affecting more than 10 million people across 13 provinces and cities, the State Flood [...]

China opens World Expo 2010 in Shanghai

The 2010 World Expo has opened in the city of Shanghai in what China hopes will be further proof of its rising global influence. Almost 250 countries and international organisations are showcasing their culture in an event themed around sustainable development. Many are doing so in pavilions with radical architecture. World leaders, including France’s President [...]

Attack on school in China leaves 5 children injured

Another attack on a preschool was held on Friday, in which 5 children were injured with a hammer, after which the attacker set himself on fire in a classroom suicide, state media reported. The attacker poured gasoline over himself while holding two of the children, a government spokesman told Xinhua news agency. As the teachers [...]

28 children stabbed by man in Chinese Kindergarten

Officials said on Thursday that twenty-eight children and three adults have been injured by a man with a knife at a Kindergarten located in eastern China. This is the third such attack in the month. Five of the injured are in critical condition, the officials said, and were taken to a hospital after the incident [...]

2000 Games bronze medal strip from China

The Intenational Olympic Committee or IOC stripped the bronze medal from China for age falsification after winning the 2000 Games that was ten years ago which is held in Sydney. China’s gymnast winner Dong Fangxiao is said to be underage that time. She was only 14 at the 2000 Games which the minimum age should [...]

China mourns for thousands of earthquake victims

Thousands of people including officials, soldiers and civilians gathered Wednesday for a ceremony to give tribute and show that China mourns for thousands of victims in earthquake that killed a total of 2,064 people in a remote area of Tibetan region a week ago. The earthquakes epicenter hit in Yushu County in western Qinghai province. [...]

China’s President joined relief effort

Hu Jintao, China’s President flew to a remote area and visited the victims or the earthquake that killed an estimated 1,706 people. This is to speed up relief distribution in the said area. Hu Jintao took a cut short South American trip to immediately arrive at the area. “Saving life remains the first priority. We [...]

Shutting down the fat gene

There are chances that scientists in China may have discovered how a gene responsible for obesity kicks into action and want to make a molecule to shut it down. The fat mass and obesity linked gene (FTO) is present on human chromosome 16 and most of the studies in past have shown that this gene [...]

Earthquake in western China kills almost 400 people, burying even more

At least 400 people were killed by a series of strong earthquakes which struck a far western Tibetan area of China on Wednesday, and over 10,000 houses made of mud and wood were wrecked, burying hundreds of people, officials said. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the strongest quake to be of a magnitude 6.9. The series of [...]

China executes smugglers

   Three Japanese smugglers had been executed in China. The smugglers tried to smuggle methamphetamine from China. The Japan’s Justice had been concerned over the relations of the two countries, making them to be concerned on their citizens in China. The three smugglers were smuggling drugs from the northern province of Liaoning. One of the [...]

The Height of the Mount Everest

The agreement regarding the height of the famous Mount Everest had been agreed at once by Nepal and China. It was then agreed that the height of the Mount Everest is about 8,848m tall. The two countries are those that borders by the Mount Everest. Before, as for the Chinese, they argued that the Mount [...]

American Sentenced in NoKor

Aijalon Mahli Gomes, American, was sentenced for eight years hard labor for legally entering North Korea. The American who was arrested and was sentenced was charged due to crossing the North Korea- China border last January 25. Aijalon Mahli Gomes, 30, was and English language teacher and has a strong Christian convictions and been a [...]

Iran to host nuclear disarmament conference

A nuclear disarmament conference taking place this month will be hosted by Iran, as an effort to show it is not seeking developing nuclear weapons. Iran’s top nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili said on Sunday on State television that China will be attending the two-day conference called “Nuclear Energy For All, Nuclear Weapons For No One,” [...]

‘Dozens survive’ in flooded China mine

Up to 95 miners are believed to have survived for a week after a mine flooded in China, with rescuers now bringing workers to the surface. Nine miners were in the first batch rescued, with TV pictures showing them being taken to hospitals in ambulances amid jubilant scenes. State media say work is going on [...]

US Treasury delays China currency report

The US Treasury is delaying by several months a report on whether China manipulates its currency, the yuan. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner said he would delay the report, which was due out on 15 April, until after a series of high-level international meetings. The decision may improve US relations with China but could upset some [...]

Blast at mine in central China kills 19

An explosion at a mine in central China has left 19 people dead, with 24 still trapped underground, the government said on Friday. This is the third major mine disaster in China this week. Five days earlier, a flooding in a mine in northern Shanxi province left 153 workers trapped underneath. Although there are no [...]

After Google, Yahoo! is latest victim of cyber attacks in China

The Yahoo! email accounts of several journalists and activists whose work relates to China were hacked into by unknown cyber pirates, in an incident similar to that which led Internet giant Google to shut down its Chinese website. In an unpleasant case of ‘déjà-vu’, the Foreign correspondent’s club in China (FCCC) reported Wednesday that the [...]

The Emerging Giants – China & India – Key facts

POPULATION One in three people worldwide lives in either China, the largest communist country, or India, the largest democracy. For the moment, China remains the most populous nation, with 1.3 billion inhabitants, followed by India, which is home to 1.1 billion. But India’s higher fertility rate means the gap is narrowing and the UN expects [...]

Test of Two Nuclear Capable missiles by India.

In recent news, India has tested two short range missiles which have capability to take nuclear bomb along with them. Nuclear weapons were tested by India in 1998 and now she has made a range of nuclear and conventional missile systems as a part of program begun in 1983. Saturday’s first test was the launch [...]

China opposes Switzerland taking Guantanamo Chinese Uighur detainees

On Thursday, China expressed its disagreement to Switzerland taking two Chinese Uighurs released from Guantanamo Bay the previous day. “China resolutely opposes the US transfer of the above terrorist suspects to a third country, and opposes any third country taking them,” said Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang. “We have lodged solemn representations to the country [...]

U.S. sends 2 Chinese Uighur detainees to Switzerland

The U.S. Justice Department said on Wednesday that two Chinese Uighur brothers who were held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had been transferred to Switzerland. Although China demanded that the Uighurs be returned to their country, the U.S. government has said it could not do so because they would face persecution. The U.S. government also [...]

Denmark’s famed Little Mermaid heads on her first trip abroad

The famous Little Mermaid statue of Denmark was sent to the Copenhagen harbor on Thursday, to begin its journey to the World Expo in Shanghai. This will be the statues first trip abroad in her 96-year history. The Little Mermaid’s statue is 5-foot (1.5-meter) high, and honors the memory of Danish fairy tale writer Hans Christian Andersen. [...]

Chinese netizens divided over Google move

China has condemned US giant Google’s move to stop censoring search results and direct its users to an unrestricted Hong Kong site – effectively shutting its mainland Chinese search service. But what do Chinese netizens make of it? There is sharp division between the reactions from Chinese internet users on websites that lie inside and [...]

Pupils Stabbed to Death

Fujian, China – Eight pupils was stabbed to death all in their primary school in the province of Fujian, China. Five others are reported to be injured by a knife attack in the primary school in Nanping from the city of Fuzhou. A man with mental disorder, 40, working from a community clinic,  is reported [...]

China sandstorm leaves Beijing shrouded in orange dust

Beijing has been shrouded in orange dust as a strong sandstorm blew hundreds of miles from drought-struck northern China to the nation’s capital. The authorities have issued a level-five pollution warning and urged people to stay indoors. In Tiananmen Square, clouds of dust obscured monuments and visitors wore masks to avoid the dust and soil. [...]

China leaps toward a more equal parliament representation

Amid growing calls for the government to address a worsening rural-urban wealth division, China’s draft legislation last Monday revealed the country’s plan to increase rural representation in its parliament. The piece of law aims to resolve the widening gap between the urban cities and the vast countryside which was left behind in China’s economic boom. [...]

Importance of economy to be stressed on China’s annual meetings

According to China’s top parliamentary adviser, year 2010 will be crucial for maintaining growth, creating job opportunities and diversifying away from exports. As the annual legislative session prepares to open, the economy’s central importance is further emphasized. Although Beijing has declared that China emerged from the global crisis with a 10.7 percent economic growth in [...]

China sets out study on obtaining benefits from Arctic ice melting

A Stockholm research institute said on Monday that China has started exploring ways to gain economic and strategic benefits from the ice melting at the Arctic due to global warming. The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) further said that the Chinese officials were being cautious in expressing interest in the region for fear of causing alarm [...]

5.1 magnitude earthquake hits southwestern China

A 5.1 magnitude earthquake struck China’s southwestern province of Yunnan on Thursday, injuring 11 people and damaging many houses, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported. The quake struck at 12:56 p.m. (0456 GMT) in Chuxiong prefecture, about 60 miles (95 kilometers) northwest of the provincial capital of Kunming, the national earthquake monitoring center reported. Xinhua cited a [...]

China anger at Dalai Lama-Obama meeting

A visit by the Dalai Lama to Washington has “seriously undermined” relations between the US and China, Beijing says. It released a strongly worded statement in response to US President Barack Obama’s meeting with Tibet’s spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama. China had earlier expressed “strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition” to the meeting with a man [...]

Dalai Lama “very happy” with talks with Obama

President Barack Obama welcomed the Dalai Lama for closely-watched White House talks Thursday, risking fallout in China over the get-together and Obama’s statement supporting preservation of Tibet’s identity and human rights. “The president commended the Dalai Lama’s ‘Middle Way’ approach, his commitment to nonviolence and his pursuit of dialogue with the Chinese government,” White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said [...]

Obama meeting with the Dalai Lama despite Chinese anger

The U.S. President Barack Obama will host the Dalai Lama at the White House on Thursday despite China’s warning that the meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader could further damage strained ties. Obama’s first presidential meeting with the Dalai Lama is sure to draw angry complaints from Beijing, which is increasingly at odds with Washington over trade, currencies, U.S. [...]

US Facing Serious Cyber Threats

White house`s top counter terrorism advisor said recently that US is facing serious threats within cyberspace. John Brenan told that threats and vulnerabilities within the cyber domain are serious and significant added that a cyber security board has been set up in the white house. He said that it is a very serious matter but [...]

China hits back at US over trade and currency

China has hit back at the US a day after President Barack Obama promised to take a tougher line with Beijing over currency and trade. Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu insisted the value of the Chinese yuan was not the main reason for China’s trade surplus with the US. Mr Obama vowed to ensure [...]

Spiders-Snaring Water From Air

Few days back Chinese scientists reported on why spider`s silk is not only famous for strength but also used for collecting water from the air, sparing the creature a hunt for drink. The secret, revealed by scanning through electron microscope, lies in the silk`s tail-shaped protein fibers which change structure in response to water. Once [...]

Obama vows ‘much tougher’ stance on US-China trade

President Barack Obama says he will be much tougher with China to make sure it opens its markets to trade with the US. Mr Obama told Democratic Party senators that he would put “constant pressure” on China and other countries to stick to their side of trade agreements. But he said he did not intend [...]

More than 80 nations sign ‘Copenhagen Accord’

Over 80 nations have signed the “Copenhagen Accord”, in order to fight the climate change, documents showed on Wednesday. China, India and Russia are among the nations yet to make clear if they will endorse the deal. On January 18, the U.N. Climate Change Secretariat wrote to all countries, asking them to state by January 31 [...]

Obama meeting with Dalai Lama harmful: China

Any meeting between President Barack Obama and the Dalai Lama would harm bilateral relations, China warned on Tuesday while repeating Beijing’s refusal to discuss Tibet’s status with the spiritual leader’s envoys. An Obama meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader would “seriously undermine the political foundation of Sino-U.S. relations,” said Zhu Weiqun, executive deputy head of the Communist Party’s United Front Work Department in [...]

13 countries agree on plan to save wild tigers

12 of the Asian countries along with Russia attending the first Ministerial Conference on Tiger Conservation on Friday vowed to double the number of wild tigers by 2022, finish off poaching that has devastated the big cats and prohibit the building of roads and bridges that could harm their habitats. However, the historic declaration adopted by the [...]

Tiger farms should shut: World Bank

China and other Asian nations should shut privately run tiger farms as they are inhumane and fuel demand for the endangered big cat’s bones and skin, the World Bank said Thursday. The call came as governments from 13 countries where tigers exist in the wild met in Thailand to discuss their conservation and how to boost tiger numbers. Tiger farms [...]

China backs trilateral cooperation between Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan

China on Tuesday said that it supports the trilateral cooperation among Turkey, Afghanistan and Pakistan in their efforts to address the issue of Afghanistan. Yang Jiechi, the special representative of the Chinese President Hu Jintao made the statement at the regional summit on Afghanistan held in Istanbul, Turkey. Yang said that Afghanistan has gradually recovered [...]

13 countries meet in hopes of saving wild tigers

Conservationists and the World Bank warned on Wednesday that efforts to save the wild tiger are at a critical point and it will take greater political will and cooperation from Asian countries to prevent the big cats from becoming extinct. The message was delivered to the 13 different tiger range states attending the first Ministerial [...]

Denmark welcomes talks between China and Dalai Lama

Denmark welcomed the resumption of talks between China and exiled Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama over the political status of Tibet, and said that the two nations should ensure that the Tibetans attain genuine self-rule within the framework of the Chinese constitution. Envoys of the Dalai Lama, Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari and Kelsang Gyaltsen, reached Beijing [...]

Melamine found again in China’s milk products

Beijing, China Chinese authorities have found more cases of milk products contaminated with the toxic industrial chemical melamine after more than one year when thousands of children have been hospitalized in massive milk safety outbreak.  Government have already started pulling out melamine tainted dairy products from convenience stores in southern China. Melamine tainted milk products [...]

Save the Tigers!

Tigers are in a critical decline because of human encroachment, the loss of more than nine-tenths of their habitat and the growing trade in tiger skins and body parts. From an estimated 100,000 at the beginning of the 20th century, the number today ranges between 3,200 to 3,600, most of them in Asia and Russia. Now [...]

No agreement on new Iran sanctions

NEW YORK — Diplomats from six key powers focused on possible new sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program at a meeting Saturday, but reached no agreement. Robert Cooper, the European Union’s political director who chaired the meeting, said the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany concluded “that Iran has failed to follow [...]

China phone launch pulled out by Google

BEIGING, China Google Inc. said it is delaying the planned China launch of two mobile-phone models that use its operating system, the clearest sign yet that its standoff with Beijing is already affecting parts of its China business beyond its Chinese search engine, and that ramifications are spreading to its business partners. Google’s statement came on the eve of [...]

China’s wild tigers face extinction: WWF

The World Wildlife Fund warned that the wild tiger faced extinction in China   after having been decimated by poaching and the destruction of its natural habitat, on Tuesday. “If there are no urgent measures taken, there is a high risk that the wild tiger will go extinct,” Zhu Chunquan, conservation director of biodiversity at WWF [...]

Thousands view solar eclipse in Asia and Africa

Thousands of people in Asia and Africa watched the formation of the annular solar eclipse which reduced the sun to a blazing ring surrounding a somber disk and leaving the continent in an eerie semi-darkness on Friday. The spectacle, visible in a roughly 300-kilometre (185-mile) band running 12,900 kilometres (8,062 miles) across the globe, set [...]

Lead found in cheap kid’s accessories

Abundance of cheap jewelries and accessories costing from $2 – $3.99 can be seen in most shops worlwide, which are really bestsellers specially to teens and at times, older citizens. Unaware of the possible harm these shiny jewelry and charms will cause to consumers. Warnings from Los Angeles chief safety product officer pertains about this [...]

Gender imbalance grows in China

More than 24 million Chinese men could find themselves without spouses by 2020, says the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The gender imbalance among newborns is the most serious demographic problem for the country’s population of 1.3 billion, says the academy. It cites sex-specific abortions as a major factor, due to China’s traditional bias towards [...]

U.S. software firm sues China for $2.2 billion

A California based software firm filed a $2.2 billion lawsuit against China, accusing Beijing of stealing its technology  to bar Internet access to political and religious sites in China. The Santa Barbra firm Cybersitter is suing the Chinese government, two Chinese companies, and seven PC manufacturers for misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair competition, copyright infringement [...]

China overtakes Germany & becomes world’s biggest exporter

China overtook Germany as the world’s top exporter after December exports jumped 17.7 percent for their first increase in 14 months, data showed Sunday, in another sign of China’s rise as a global economic force. According to the General Administration of Customs, exports for the last month of 2009 were $130.7 billion. That raised total [...]

China’s “execution system” shrouded in secrecy

Opponents of the death penalty condemn China’s execution system for criminals as it lacks tranparency. There is the secrecy surrounding the judicial process that makes it impossible to find out whether the accused has had a fair trial or not.That means of course that it is uncertain how many criminals are executed here. Human Rights [...]

China shopping centre builds ‘car park for women’

A shopping centre in China’s Hebei province has built a car park with wider spaces that it says is designed especially to suit women drivers. The women-only car park in Shijiazhuang city is also painted in pink and light purple to appeal to female tastes. Official Wang Zheng told AFP news agency the car park [...]

China introduces the world’s fastest train link

China marked another conquest in technology by unveiling the fastest rail link in the world on Saturday. The train connected China’s two modern cities Guangzhou and Wuhan at an average speed of 350 kilometers an hour. The super-high-speed train reduces the 1,069 kilometer journey to a three hour ride and cuts the previous journey time [...]

UN tries to defend climate change deal

The UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moo spoke to reporters on Monday after global bickering erupted as the world leaders fumed about the climate change deal made in Copenhagen, Denmark, last week. The UN chief tried to defend the world body’s central role in the ongoing debate. Ban said that the deal was an essential start [...]

Ford agrees to sale Volvo to Geely

Ford put Volvo up for sale a year ago to help pay off its debt and make its business more focused. Geely was named preferred bidder in November. If completed, it will be the largest purchase by a Chinese car firm. Ford has agreed to the terms of the sale of its Swedish Business, Volvo [...]