At least 16 people have been killed and 32 injured in a magnitude-7 earthquake in China’s Tibet Autonomous Region, according to the state news agency Xinhua, citing local disaster management authorities. At
China’s marriage rate has plummeted to its lowest level in more than four decades, with just 6.1 million couples marrying in 2024. This marks a 20% drop from the 7.7 million marriages
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The Chinese animated film Ne Zha 2 has shattered records and could signal a major shift in the global film industry, particularly in the dynamic between Hollywood and China. The film, based
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China’s Spacesail is quickly emerging as a powerful competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink, with its own ambitious low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation that aims to revolutionize global broadband services. With strategic partnerships
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The East China Sea has become a flashpoint for rising tensions between two of Asia’s most powerful nations—China and Japan. At the heart of this dispute lies a small cluster of uninhabited
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New Zealand has been caught off guard by the announcement that the Cook Islands, a small island nation under its protection, is set to sign a strategic partnership agreement with China. Winston
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Italy has become the first country to block DeepSeek, a Chinese-developed AI app, after its data protection authority raised alarms over the app’s handling of personal data. The Italian watchdog, Garante, made
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China is constructing an enormous military command centre in western Beijing, a facility expected to surpass the Pentagon in scale and complexity. U.S. intelligence reports, cited by the Financial Times, indicate that
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Mice with two fathers have been successfully created and survived to adulthood following a complex set of experiments led by a team in China. The breakthrough, conducted by Zhi-Kun Li and his
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In a groundbreaking moment at China’s iconic Spring Festival Gala, a group of robots dressed in floral jackets took center stage, dancing in perfect synchrony to a version of a traditional northeastern
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China has unveiled a robot designed to assist in polar exploration, equipped with impressive capabilities to handle the extreme challenges of Antarctica’s sub-zero temperatures. This “robot husky,” inspired by the real-life dogs
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India has expressed serious concerns regarding China’s announcement of a new hydropower project in Tibet that is set to be three times the size of the world’s largest hydropower facility, the Three
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Two Iranian cargo vessels, the Golbon and Jairan, are en route from China to Iran, carrying over 1,000 tonnes of sodium perchlorate, a crucial ingredient for missile propellant, according to intelligence cited
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Labour’s push towards renewable energy and its reliance on Chinese investment has raised alarms among security experts and its own MPs, The Times UK has reported. Critics fear that this strategy, part
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The Chinese ambassador to Iran, Cong Peiwu, highlighted the promising prospects of cooperation between Iran and China within the BRICS framework, calling for stronger bilateral ties in both economic and multilateral spheres.
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by Li Ya’nan The Tianshan Shengli Tunnel, the world’s longest expressway tunnel located in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, completed tunneling on Dec. 30, 2024. Built by China Communications Construction Company
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