Saudi medical team arrives in Syria to perform 95 heart surgeries and catheterizations    4 expats, including 2 women, were arrested for prostitution in Tabuk    Private tourism hospitality facility licenses soar by 330% in 2024    Makkah police arrest a man for posting fake Hajj campaign ads on social media    Passports Directorate begins issuing Makkah entry permits for expats working for Hajj    China posts unexpectedly strong economic growth before tariffs bite    Nvidia expects $5.5bn hit as US tightens chip export rules to China    Confusion surrounds US-Iran nuclear talks venue as Tehran points to Oman over Rome    His memories uncovered a secret jail — right next to an international airport    US Energy Secretary Chris Wright visits Saudi Aramco in Dhahran    SDAIA launches 'Introduction to AI' course for third-year secondary school students    E-payments account for 79% of retail transactions in Saudi Arabia in 2024    Nissan Formula E Team secures pole position and double points finish in Miami    Farah Al Yousef to race as Wild Card entry in F1 Academy at Saudi Arabian Grand Prix    Supply. Supply. Supply: How Badael plans to meet record demand for DZRT The Saudi smoking cessation company aims to produce over 100 million cans in 2025    Saudi Arabia drawn with USA, Haiti and Trinidad in 2025 CONCACAF Gold Cup group    Al Hilal's title bid falters with draw at Al Ettifaq    Ncuti Gatwa cast as Elizabethan playwright Marlowe    Scarlett Johansson hitting Cannes both on-screen and behind the camera    Saudi Organ Center saves 8 lives through coordinated donor recoveries in 12 hours    Pakistani star's Bollywood return excites fans and riles far right    Veteran Bollywood actor Manoj Kumar dies at 87    Bollywood actress vindicated over boyfriend's death after media hounding    Grand Mufti rules against posting prayers and preaching in mosques on social media    Exotic Taif Roses Simulation Performed at Taif Rose Festival    Asian shares mixed Tuesday    Weather Forecast for Tuesday    Saudi Tourism Authority Participates in Arabian Travel Market Exhibition in Dubai    Minister of Industry Announces 50 Investment Opportunities Worth over SAR 96 Billion in Machinery, Equipment Sector    HRH Crown Prince Offers Condolences to Crown Prince of Kuwait on Death of Sheikh Fawaz Salman Abdullah Al-Ali Al-Malek Al-Sabah    HRH Crown Prince Congratulates Santiago Peña on Winning Presidential Election in Paraguay    SDAIA Launches 1st Phase of 'Elevate Program' to Train 1,000 Women on Data, AI    41 Saudi Citizens and 171 Others from Brotherly and Friendly Countries Arrive in Saudi Arabia from Sudan    Saudi Arabia Hosts 1st Meeting of Arab Authorities Controlling Medicines    General Directorate of Narcotics Control Foils Attempt to Smuggle over 5 Million Amphetamine Pills    NAVI Javelins Crowned as Champions of Women's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Competitions    Saudi Karate Team Wins Four Medals in World Youth League Championship    Third Edition of FIFA Forward Program Kicks off in Riyadh    Evacuated from Sudan, 187 Nationals from Several Countries Arrive in Jeddah    SPA Documents Thajjud Prayer at Prophet's Mosque in Madinah    SFDA Recommends to Test Blood Sugar at Home Two or Three Hours after Meals    SFDA Offers Various Recommendations for Safe Food Frying    SFDA Provides Five Tips for Using Home Blood Pressure Monitor    SFDA: Instant Soup Contains Large Amounts of Salt    Mawani: New shipping service to connect Jubail Commercial Port to 11 global ports    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Delivers Speech to Pilgrims, Citizens, Residents and Muslims around the World    Sheikh Al-Issa in Arafah's Sermon: Allaah Blessed You by Making It Easy for You to Carry out This Obligation. Thus, Ensure Following the Guidance of Your Prophet    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques addresses citizens and all Muslims on the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan    

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China has a powerful card to play in its fight against Trump's trade war
Less than a year into Donald Trump's first trade war with China, Chinese leader Xi Jinping made a high-profile visit to an unassuming factory in Ganzhou, an industrial city nestled among rolling hills in the country's southeast. Touring its (...)

16 - 04 - 2025
The world's tallest bridge will open in China this summer
Move over, Golden Gate and Sydney Harbour. China is set to open the world's tallest bridge in June, the latest feat of engineering from the infrastructure-focused country. The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge is currently nearing the end of construction (...)

16 - 04 - 2025
China posts unexpectedly strong economic growth before tariffs bite
China has posted unexpectedly strong economic growth in the first three months of 2025, before the full force of US President Donald Trump's tariffs took effect. Growth in its gross domestic product (GDP) hit 5.4% in the first quarter, the National (...)

16 - 04 - 2025
Tariff uncertainty engulfs annual trade show in Hong Kong
An annual global trade fair has kicked off in Hong Kong with no shortage of fanfare – featuring robots flexing, dazzling new products and excited crowds packing the convention halls. But uncertainty over how the US-China tariff war may pan out cast (...)

14 - 04 - 2025
Asian markets plunge as Trump's global tariff turmoil deepens
Asian markets plunged on Monday, deepening a global stocks rout triggered by US President Donald Trump's trade war and China's forceful response to unexpectedly high tariffs. Japan's benchmark Nikkei fell by more than 8% shortly after opening, while (...)

07 - 04 - 2025
China retaliates against Trump's trade war with 34% reciprocal tariffs on US goods
China said on Friday it will impose reciprocal 34% tariffs on all imports from the United States from April 10, making good on a promise to strike back after US President Donald Trump escalated a global trade war. On Wednesday, Trump unveiled an (...)

04 - 04 - 2025
China-bound United flight turns around after pilot forgets passport
A United Airlines Boeing 787 jetliner flying from Los Angeles to Shanghai had to turn around last weekend after it was discovered one of the pilots had taken off without a passport, the airline told CNN in a statement. Flight UA 198 departed LAX at (...)

25 - 03 - 2025
China hits out at 'threats of force' on Iran as Trump pushes for new nuclear deal
China, Iran and Russia called for diplomacy over "pressure and threats" and an end to "all illegal unilateral sanctions" following talks on Tehran's nuclear program on Friday in Beijing, Chinese state media said. The meeting, attended by the three (...)

14 - 03 - 2025
China defies Trump's trade war by setting ambitious 5% growth target
China has set an ambitious target of "around 5%" growth for 2025, in a defiant show of confidence as it braces for the fallout from escalating American tariffs on its export-driven economy. The target "underscores our resolve to meet difficulties (...)

05 - 03 - 2025
Hong Kong billionaire to sell Panama Canal ports to US firm
A Hong Kong-based company has agreed to sell most of its stake in two key ports on the Panama Canal to a group led by US investment firm BlackRock. The sale comes after weeks of complaining by President Donald Trump that the canal is under Chinese (...)

05 - 03 - 2025
Hong Kong's main opposition party announces plan to dissolve
The leaders of Hong Kong's Democratic Party have announced plans to dissolve what was once the city's largest opposition group. Members will soon vote on the final decision on whether to shut down the 31-year-old party, chairman Lo Kin-hei said. The (...)

21 - 02 - 2025
Hong Kong launches naming contest for twin panda cubs
Panda fever has swept through Hong Kong as residents compete to name the city's first locally born giant panda twins, who celebrated their six-month milestone on Saturday. The naming contest, officially launched at a ceremony at Ocean Park, was (...)

15 - 02 - 2025
Iran is rearming its missile program, Western sources say
The first of two vessels carrying 1,000 tons of a Chinese-made chemical that could be a key component in fuel for Iran's military missile program has anchored outside the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas on Thursday, ship tracking data shows. It could (...)

14 - 02 - 2025
Chinese film stirs national pride, rakes in $1bn in days
An animated film about a boy who battles demons with his magical powers has become China's highest-grossing film ever and a source of national pride. Ne Zha 2, based on a Chinese mythological character, has raked in more than 8 billion yuan ($1.1bn; (...)

10 - 02 - 2025
China hits back as Trump's tariffs go into effect
Beijing announced a broad package of economic measures targeting the United States on Tuesday, hitting back after US President Donald Trump imposed 10% tariffs on Chinese imports. The fresh duties, announced by China's Ministry of Finance, levy a (...)

04 - 02 - 2025
Asian markets tumble as Trump's tariff war escalates
Asian shares slid on Monday morning after US President Donald Trump followed through on his promise to impose tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. Investors are bracing for a potential trade war that could hit the earnings of major companies and (...)

03 - 02 - 2025
Taiwanese star Barbie Hsu of Meteor Garden fame dies
Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu has died from pneumonia after contracting influenza while on a vacation in Japan, local media report. She was 48. Hsu is one of the biggest names in the Mandarin-speaking world and is best known for starring in the 2001 (...)

03 - 02 - 2025
China celebrates DeepSeek's breakout AI success as tech race heats up
People across China are hailing the success of homegrown tech startup DeepSeek and its founder, after the company's newest artificial intelligence model sent shock waves through Silicon Valley and Wall Street. "DeepSeek overturns the US stocks (...)

29 - 01 - 2025
Xi and Putin hail tightening ties in call hours after Trump inauguration
Chinese leader Xi Jinping vowed to take his country's ties with Russia to a new level this year in a video conference with his counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, hours after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump. The two leaders have (...)

22 - 01 - 2025
China unveils prototype for what could be the world's fastest high-speed train
China has revealed a prototype of its next-generation high-speed train, a vehicle it says is on track to be the world's fastest. The CR450, which was unveiled in Beijing on December 29, had reached test speeds as high as 450 kilometers (281 miles) (...)

01 - 01 - 2025
WHO urges China to share Covid origins data, five years on from pandemic's emergence
The World Health Organization has urged China to share data to help understand the origins of Covid-19, five years on from the start of the pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan. On December 31, 2019, the WHO's China office noted a cluster of (...)

31 - 12 - 2024
China says astronauts completed nine-hour spacewalk, breaking US record
China says two of its astronauts completed a nine-hour spacewalk Tuesday, a figure that beats the US-held record for the world's longest spacewalk set in 2001, in the latest milestone in the country's ambitious space program. Cai Xuzhe and Song (...)

18 - 12 - 2024
Indian students in the US outnumber Chinese for the first time in 15 years
For more than a decade, Chinese students have flocked to the United States, drawn by the prestige of an overseas education and the glamor of the American Dream. Education consultancies flourished across China, with parents paying big bucks for (...)

21 - 11 - 2024
Hong Kong's leading democracy activists handed lengthy prison terms in mass trial
More than 40 of Hong Kong's best-known pro-democracy figures have been sentenced to prison terms of up to 10 years on subversion charges, in the biggest single blow to the city's already shrinking political freedoms following Beijing's sweeping (...)

19 - 11 - 2024
Driver detained after car plows into people exercising in Chinese city
Police in southern China have detained the driver of a car that plowed into people exercising in the grounds of an outdoor sports center on Monday evening, leaving scores injured. A car "hit multiple pedestrians and then fled the scene" at the (...)

12 - 11 - 2024
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