Responding to reports of a six-and-a-half-year sentence handed down today to Chinese human rights lawyer Li Yuhan on charges of “picking quarrels and provoking troubles” and fraud, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for China Sarah Brooks said:
“Li Yuhan is one of many human rights lawyers in China who have...
The relationship between Nepal and China has seen many ups and downs ever since the two nations established diplomatic ties in 1955. While Nepal accepted Tibet’s accession to China in 1956, and also ratified the Treaty of Peace and Friendship in 1960, the Chinese were seen to enhance the...
Taipei, Oct 25: China announced plans on Wednesday to send a new telescope to probe deep into the universe as it prepared to launch the country's next, three-member crew for its orbiting space station.
The telescope, dubbed Xuntian, will be installed by China's Tiangong space station and will co-orbit with...
China removed its defence minister on Tuesday, the second ousting of a senior leader in three months, raising questions about the stability of the leadership team around Chinese President Xi Jinping.
General Li Shangfu, who has been absent from public view for two months, was dismissed as defence minister and...
Officials from the United States and China on Monday held a two-hour long virtual meeting to discuss domestic and global macroeconomic developments, the U.S. Treasury Department said, calling the meeting "productive and substantive".
Ties between the world's two largest economies have been strained in recent years due to a number...
BANGKOK (AP) — Zhang Hongliang, a former restaurant manager in central China, took various gigs in and outside China to support his family after losing his job during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March, a job offer to teach Chinese cooking at a restaurant led him into a cyber scam compound...
China is trying to steal nuclear technology secrets from Britain, the head of MI5 has warned.
Director general Ken McCallum said it was a 'high priority' for Beijing to 'disrupt' the AUKUS security partnership between the UK, America and Australia to build a new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines.
Britain is building...
Taiwan is racing to defend itself against the prospect of lethal autonomous Chinese drone swarms invading its airspace in a potential future conflict.
The military has begun to deploy new counter-drone technology on outlying Taiwanese islands within a few miles of China’s southeastern coast, which have been on the front...
Chineese officials have been targetting Taiwanese Apple supplier Foxconn as the Company in recent times diversified its manufacturing away from China to India.
According to the state-run Global Times, tax authorities are examining Foxconn subsidiaries in Guangdong and Jiangsu provinces. The same report also mentions that natural resources officials are investigating...
WASHINGTON: The United States is imposing sanctions on three China-based companies that it said on Friday have worked to supply missile‐applicable items to Pakistan’s ballistic missile program.
A US State Department statement identified the firms as General Technology Limited, Beijing Luo Luo Technology Development Co Ltd, and Changzhou Utek Composite...
