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- Chinese police are joining Italian officers on the streets of Rome and Milan in an experiment aimed at helping tourists from China feel safe, Italy’s…
- The thing about premature babies is that they are premature, meaning that they don’t get to spend as much time in the womb developing as they should
- China-Japan relations went through twists and turns in recent years
- BEIJING (AP) — A prominent investor and the general manager of China’s biggest stock brokerage have been arrested on insider trading charges, the…
- IKEA Group, the Swedish self-assembly budget furniture chain, is joining a growing number of multinational retailers aiming to tap China’s online market
- (CNN)Researchers believe they have found the wreckage of the HMS Endeavour, vessel of legendary British explorer, James Cook
- Robots are not only for fun and games, it's also a very serious industry in China
- Chinese drivers are rushing to buy sport-utility vehicles in an "arms race" for safety on the country's hair-raising roads, analysts say, as SUV…
- Taxi-hailing service Uber and China’s e-commerce giant Alibaba Group have agreed a deal that will allow Chinese travelers to pay for a taxi in any country where Uber operates
- Even though President Barack Obama and his wife can’t wait to get out of the White House, being a lame duck can hurt a guy
- The Taiwanese economy shrank more than expected in the first quarter, suggesting tighter links to a slowing China remain a drag on growth for the export-dependent nation
- Much to the FBI's displeasure, iPhones running at least iOS 8 offer full-disk encryption by default
- Her career has taken her round the world but popular Chinese folk singer Song Zuying’s latest tour has taken her to new destinations - very new
- Russia hopes to strengthen agricultural cooperation with China, Russian Agriculture Minister Alexander Tkachev said in a recent interview with Xinhua
- China said on Thursday the door for dialogue with the Philippines on the South China Sea is always open, refuting the country’s argument that bilateral dialogue has come to an end
- Profits almost tripled last year at the world’s biggest e-commerce company, Alibaba
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- HONG KONG — In China, an iPhone can be found for a small fraction of the official price
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- Apple chief executive Tim Cook plans to visit Beijing later this month to meet high-level government officials, at a time when the company is facing…
- A senior Chinese official announced yet another ambitious plan for the space-faring nation at a press conference on Saturday
- It was late afternoon in a second-hand electronics and auto parts market in Xiasha district, Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang Province, and He Hong…
- Greece’s central bank became the target of a cyber attack by activist hacking group Anonymous on Tuesday which disrupted service of its website, a…
- Mr Khan is the city’s first Muslim mayor, after beating Tory Zac Goldsmith by 1, 310,143 votes to 994, 614
- A robot is being designed to compete with 12th graders during the college entrance examination in 2017 and get a score qualifying it to enter…
- Elite universities are to be established by the Ministry of Education in 14 central and western provinces that have never had a university directly…
- Chinese authorities issued new regulations to ban a number of TV networks' "inappropriate hype," reported Beijing Daily
- Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton says that if she's elected president, at least half of her Cabinet will be women
- Mitsubishi Motors Corp's top two executives are likely to resign over the Japanese automaker's manipulation of fuel economy data, Japanese media…
- China has developed a new electronic paper, a huge breakthrough that will catapult the material to a new level
- This year's annual average salary of rural residents in China is expected to exceed 5,000 yuan ($770), an increase of 10 percent compared with last…
- Two of Italy's top soccer clubs, Inter Milan and its rival AC Milan, said they have been approached by Chinese groups either seeking a stake or offering strategic partnerships
- With the Beijing Motor Show underway, the days when the country's domestic car firms was brushed off as mere copycats are well and truly over
- A changing Chinese military strategy and planned troop reductions in the People's Liberation Army are having an impact on students recruiting and training of military academies
- China’s independentrefineries are becoming more assertive in global oil trading, procuring largervolumes of crude and buying it directly from the market
- Barack Obama is to visit Hiroshima this month - the first serving US president to travel to the Japanese city since it was hit by a US nuclear bomb in 1945
- Guido Menzio is a highly respected Ivy League economist and a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, but on a plane he looked like a terrorist…
- When the British public votes on staying within or leaving the EU in a referendum on June 23, they will decide on the destiny of Britain for decades,…
- Two fishermen have been detained in China over the killing of a whale shark days after one found fame online
- Though Chinese authorities may be warning citizens against embracing “Western values,” Chinese moviegoers showed exceptional enthusiasm for “Captain…
- Chinese Internet giant Baidu reported a 31.2-percent year-on-year increase in revenue in the first quarter (Q1) thanks to increased sales from search-engine-based new businesses
- BBC News –West Ham will issuelife bans to any fans found responsible for attacking the Manchester Unitedteam coach before Tuesday's game at Upton Park
- China will launch a nation-wide campaign to eliminate online services and materials that help fraudsters, according to the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on last Tuesday
- Tsinghua University was listed as one of the world's 20 best schools--a first for China--in a prestigious international ranking that was released recently
- Elon Musk's vision of a Hyperloop transport system that carries passengers in pressurised tubes at near-supersonic speeds is on track to hit a milestone
- Didi Chuxing — the biggest injection received by the lossmaking Chinese ride-hailing app that is Uber’s main competitor in the country, and the US…
- ” Two leading offshore centres have accused the US of hypocrisy over financial transparency, saying the world’s biggest economy lags behind standards in their own jurisdictions
- Alibaba and SoftBank have announced a new joint venture targeting Japan’s competitive cloud computing market
- The collapse of CK Hutchison’s proposed ￡10.5bn acquisition of UK mobile network O2
- China has formally charged Ling Jihua, a former aide to ex-president Hu Jintao, with corruption
