China's Finance Ministry has confirmed Australia has been approved as a prospective founding member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. This brings the number of prospective founding members of the organization to 47. Founding members of the...
A bomb threat has forced the cancellation of a Germanwings flight. The flight from Bonn to Milan was supposed to take off last night. The Airbus A320 had 126 passengers on board. Bomb technicians have since determined the threat isn't real. Chinese f...
Fires have been raging on and off at a chemical plant in Fujian for nearly 60 hours since an initial fire on Monday night triggered an explosion at the PX plant. Two storage tanks at the plant in Zhangzhou caught fire yesterday after the original bla...
福建漳州石化大火复燃后被扑灭 广电总局副局长聂辰席兼任央视台长 A fire which reignited at a chemical plant in Fujian is now out. It took crews around 4-hours to put out the secondary fire, which is said to have been sparke...
The Chinese government has temporarily closed its embassy in Yemen, evacuating all the staff there due to the worsening security conditions in Yemen. A Chinese navy vessel is taking a batch of 38 Chinese nationals in Yemen, along with 45 Sri Lanka na...
A hostage crisis at a university in east Kenya has left 147 people dead. The four gunmen who lauched the deadly attack have been killed by security forces. Militants stormed Garissa University College at dawn on Thursday, taking students hostage and...
Chinese authorities have launched the latest version of the Fox Hunt campaign to track down corrupt officials who are at-large overseas. The Ministry of Public Security says its part of the larger campaign, codenamed Sky Net, focusing on nabbing corr...
Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Kyrgyzstan have agreed to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank as a founding member. The four filed applications just before the deadline expired at midnight last night. Meanwhile, authorities in Taiwan have also...
The Chinese government says it's managed to evacuate virtually all off the Chinese nationals currently living in Yemen. Some 570 Chinese nationals are either on their way or have arrived in Djibouti with the help of Chinese warships. The Chinese Emba...
Chinese President Xi Jinping says he expects annual trade volume between China and countries involved in the Belt and Road initiative to surpass 2.5 trillion U.S. dollars in a decade. He's made the comments to a group of entrepreneurs on the sideline...
Chinese law enforcement is launching a new campaign to try to capture corrupt officials who have fled abroad. Anti-graft authority says the so-called Skynet campaign is a follow-up to last year's Fox Hunt campaign. The new campaign, which begins next...
French investigators say usable data has been extracted from the cockpit voice recorder of the Germanwings airliner which went down on Tuesday in the French Alps. But officials insist it's still too early to say what might have caused the jet to go d...
Recovery work is underway in the French Alps following the crash of passenger plane on a flight from Barcelona to Dusseldorf, Germany. 144 passengers and 6 crew members were on board the Germanwings Airbus A320 when it went down. There are no survivo...
China's Foreign Ministry says Chinese leaders are expected to attend the state funeral for the former Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew. However, details on who will be present at the Sunday service have not been released. Singapore is in sev...
Singaporean statesman Lee Kuan Yew has died. The Prime Minister's Office says the 91-year old died this morning after weeks of battling pneumonia. Lee Kwan Yew served as the city-state's first Prime Minister for 31 years. He was Singapore's first Pri...
