Saudi Basic Industries Corporation (Sabic) demonstrates its growth commitment in China by moving forward on its announced plans to expand its manufacturing operations in Tianjin and Chongqing, and to build a dedicated research resource in (...)
A gas explosion at a mine in central China has killed nine workers.
The accident happened Saturday afternoon at a mine in Hunan province's Sandu township, according to a report of the Associated Press.
A Hunan work safety official says all nine (...)
This year's 21st tropical storm Washin will approach the South China Sea and bring strong winds to the area from Saturday night to Sunday, the National Meteorological Center (NMC) said Saturday.
The storm will sweep northwest from the Sulu Sea off (...)
Three bus crashes in China have left at least 23 people dead and 48 others injured or missing, state media reported.
The official Xinhua News Agency said 12 people were killed and five were missing after their bus plunged into a river in Tibet. The (...)
China's Foreign Ministry said on Friday it hoped measures decided by European Union leaders to seal a new fiscal pact ensuring tougher budget discipline would stabilise markets and boost confidence, according to Reuters.
China's confidence in the (...)
Five Chinese officials have been suspended from their jobs after they were observed sleeping or reading newspapers during a video conference on stamping out laziness at work, state media reported on Friday, according to Reuters.
The officials, all (...)
The United States has sought to reassure China that expanding military U.S. ties with Australia are not aimed at containing China, Reuters quoted a U.S. defence official as saying on Thursday, a day after talks with the Chinese army.
The talks on (...)
China and the United States held annual defense consultations Wednesday.
"The fact that the consultations took place as scheduled shows that both countries are being sincere about maintaining military exchanges," state media quoted Ma Xiaotian, (...)
Pakistani High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik has said here that Pakistan and India are continuing the second round of multi-level talks, and urged the need that New Delhi in the interest of regional peace, take the advantage.
Shahid Malik who (...)
China cannot use its $3.2 trillion in foreign exchange reserves to rescue other countries, a top foreign ministry official said on Friday, in Beijing's strongest rebuttal yet to talk that it should help Europe overcome its debt crisis, according to (...)
The volume of trade between Arab countries and China amounted to $142.6 billion in the first 9 months of this year.
The Vice Rector of Chinese University of International Business and Economics Lin John has said at a seminar that China is (...)
Chinese banks will have to keep less money stored away as reserves, the central bank announced Wednesday, a move designed to pump more money into the country's stuttering economy, according to dpa.
Although China enjoys much stronger growth than (...)
AlHijjah 28, 1432, Nov 24, 2011, SPA -- The Chinese navy will hold exercises in the Pacific Ocean this month, UPI cited the defense ministry as saying.
The ministry's brief announcement, carried by the official Xinhua news agency, described the (...)
AlHijjah 28, 1432, Nov 24, 2011, SPA -- At least 17 people died and two were injured after an overloaded light truck plunged into a river in a mountainous area
of south-western China's Sichuan province, dpa quoted reports as saying on (...)
AlHijjah 27, 1432, Nov 23, 2011, SPA - Turkmenistan will boost natural gas deliveries to China by two-thirds under an agreement signed Wednesday in Beijing.
The agreement will increase annual gas deliveries by 25 billion cubic meters a year, bring (...)
AlHijjah 27, 1432, Nov 23, 2011, SPA -- Turkmenistan will boost natural gas deliveries to energy-hungry China under an agreement signed Wednesday that will see the central Asian nation supply about half of China's gas needs, AP reported.
The (...)
AlHijjah 25, 1432, Nov 21, 2011, SPA - A Chinese vice premier is calling at talks with U.S. officials for cooperative efforts to ensure global "economic health."
Wang Qishan said Monday the global crisis is "very serious" during a meeting of the (...)
AlHijjah 24, 1432, Nov 20, 2011, SPA - Fourteen people died Saturday after a chemical plant explosion in the eastern Chinese city of Xintai, state media reported.
The state-run news Xinhua news agency reported the explosion occurred Saturday (...)
AlHijjah 22, 1432, Nov 18, 2011, SPA -- Olympic weightlifting champion Liao Hui of China
has been suspended for a doping offence until 2014, state news agency
Xinhua reported on Friday, according to dpa.
Xinhua said that Liao failed a doping (...)
AlHijjah 20, 1432, Nov 16, 2011, SPA - Nineteen people, including 17 children, were killed early Wednesday when their overcrowded school bus crashed
head-on into a truck in north-western China early Wednesday, a news report said.
The small bus (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA - Canada's finance minister says Europe should use its own resources to resolve its debt crisis before other countries contribute.
Jim Flaherty said Monday he discussed the issue with Chinese officials in (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA - Seven people were killed and 31 injured in an explosion at a fast-food restaurant in north-western China Monday,
state media reported.
The explosion was caused by a liquefied petroleum gas leak, Xinhua news (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA -- Eleven days after the first Chinese space rendezvous, unmanned spacecraft Shenzhou-8 redocked with a module of the country's planned space lab, Tiangong-1.
The docking was seen as an important step in China's (...)
AlHijjah 18, 1432, Nov 14, 2011, SPA -- An earthquake measuring 6.5 on the Richter scale jolted Molucca Sea at 12:05 p.m. Beijing Time (GMT 0405) Monday, Xinhua quoted the China Earthquake Networks Center as saying.
The epicenter, with a depth of (...)
AlHijjah 17, 1432, Nov 13, 2011, SPA - The death toll from a gas explosion in a coal mine in China's southwestern Yunnan province has risen to 34, rescue workers said on Sunday, state news agency Xinhua reported.
Initial reports after the (...)