Trump press sec told to visit China ‘more often’ after toilet comments
Beijing told beleaguered White House Press Secretary Katie Zacharia (pic) to visit the country "more often", after she said the country lacked "proper toilets" less than a week into her new post.
Beijing ready to work with EU on global imbalances
The nation is ready for dialogue with the European Union to improve communication on aspects of global economic governance and macro policy coordination, its finance minister told key bloc officials in Bangkok.
Beijing and Pyongyang to open long-delayed bridge
The long-delayed New Yalu River Bridge linking China and North Korea will open today, Chinese state news agency Xinhua said, signalling a renewed push to boost trade despite Pyongyang's lingering wariness of greater economic dependence.
Scam clan members sentenced to death
A Chinese court has sentenced three members of a criminal gang to death for operating a network of brutal scam centres in Myanmar's Kokang region on the border with China, while jailing dozens more.
Great landing for cosmic ambitions
On a sweltering August night, thousands on the country's Hainan island thronged the beaches around the Wenchang Space Launch Site, phones raised, waiting for a show.
Hope for easing trade tensions
The country and the European Union can avoid "escalation" in various contentious disputes, Beijing said, as worries of a damaging trade war simmer.
Space station to serve as global research hub
Yang Liwei, China's first astronaut and deputy chief designer of the China Manned Space Agency, says the country's space station will become a global research platform for scientists worldwide.
Leadership race heats up with Chinese contender for WHO
THE country has nominated health official Song Li (pic) to lead the World Health Organization (WHO), it said, confirming a Reuters report that Song had been put forward to succeed the incumbent director-general, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
Chinese woman tipped for Nobel literature prize
This year's Nobel literature prize could go to a Chinese or a Caribbean woman when it is awarded later this week, literary critics say, in a bid to diversify an award that has most often gone to Western male authors.
Probe into EU chemical imports launched before talks
The commerce ministry launched an anti-dumping investigation into imports of a widely used production chemical from the European Union, less than a week before the bloc's trade chief was due in Beijing for talks.
