The Chinese government is pledging some 2 billion yuan worth of assistance in the rebuilding of Afghanistan. The commitment has been made during a meeting between Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Afghan counterpart Ashraf Ghani here in Beijing. T...
China and the Czech Republic have signed a series of deals connected to a range of areas, including civil nuclear energy, finance, medical treatment and public health. The agreements have been sealed on the sidelines of a meeting between Chinese Pres...
Hundreds of thousands of people in Hong Kong have signed on for an Anti-Occupy Central campaign. The signatories are calling for the restoration of law and order, saying the demonstrations are affecting their daily lives. So far around 650-thousand p...
This week's closely-watched CPC plenum has come to an end, with the Party's Central Committee pledging new reforms for the country's judicial system. A communique released following the 4-day session is promising among other things more judicial inde...
A suspected terrorist attack has taken place inside Canada's parliament building and its surrounding area. Numerous shots were fired just outside the room where Prime Minister Stephen Harper was meeting with a group of lawmakers. Harper was safely re...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang says China's economy is still within a reasonable range. The Premier has made the statement following Tuesday's release of this country's 3rd quarter GDP figures. Growth through the latest quarter has come in at 7.3-percent...
The 2nd day of the Communist Party of China's latest plenum is due to begin later this morning here in Beijing. This session, which runs until Thursday, is focused on the rule of law. The meetings are being billed as a potential milestone for Chinese...
The Communist Party of China is set to begin a key meeting today which will discuss the rule of law. The fourth plenum of the Party's 18th Central Committee will run through Thursday here in Beijing. Observers say this is the first time a CPC session...
The Chinese government is promising around 16 million U.S. dollars in additional aid to help West Africa fight the Ebola outbreak. Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has made the pledge while attending the Asia-Europe Summit Meeting in Milan, Italy. Meantime...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has announced a 50 million US dollar cash injection from China to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization over the next five years. Li Keqiang has made the pledge at the FAO headquarters in Rome on the eve of World Food Da...
China has signed deals worth some 8-billion euros (around 10 billion dollars) with Italy as part of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's time in Rome. Among them, the China Investment Corporation has inked an agreement with an Italian investment fund to co-i...
The Hong Kong government has decided to suspend a formal meeting planned for later today with representatives of students participating in the Occupy Central movement. This, after some of the student leaders called on more people to join the protests...
Hong Kong's Chief Executive CY Leung is vowing not to resign. I won't resign because I must carry out the universal suffrage work. In making the statement last night, Leung has defied a deadline set by the so-called Occupy protesters, who have been d...
Over 260 soldiers are working feverishly to dig a trench to try to drain a local reservoir in Pinggu County in Yunnan which is threatening thousands of people downstream. The dam holding back the reservoir sustained a major crack following Tuesday ni...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang is calling on both China and Germany to further open up their markets to each other and become pioneers in innovation. In making the statement, Li Keqiang says his government is considering Volkswagen's request for increasi...
