Chinas top legislature opens annual meeting
The NPC (National Peoples Congress), Chinas top legislature, opened its annual meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday (5 March 2014). The Second Session of the 12th NPC is set...
View ArticleChina military spending rise signals firm stand on disputes
China is beefing up spending on high-tech weapons and upgrading combat readiness as it throws its military weight behind territorial claims that have stirred tensions with Japan and Southeast Asian...
View ArticleFeng Xiaogang, artists launch tirade against film censorship during CPPCC...
What was meant to be a run-of-the-mill panel discussion on the governments work report among art experts in the Chinese Peoples Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) turned into a grumbling session...
View ArticleShanghai diners love Chinas first British restaurant
The people of China – or at least the 22 million of them who live in Shanghai – finally have a chance to get cultural payback for every time westerners have ordered dizzyingly inappropriate...
View ArticleMalaysia says it has no information missing plane has crashed
Malaysian authorities have not confirmed that a Malaysia Airlines flight, carrying 239 passengers and crew, had crashed after it went missing over the South China Sea, Transport Minister Hishamuddin...
View ArticleMalaysia Airlines denies crash report, says plane still missing
A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew went missing over the South China Sea on Saturday (8 March 2014), presumed crashed, as ships from countries closest to its flight path...
View ArticleMalaysia Airlines plane missing, presumed crashed in South China Sea
A Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 227 passengers and 12 crew went missing over the South China Sea on Saturday (8 March 2014), presumed crashed, as ships and planes from countries closest to its...
View ArticleChina dispatches vessels to South China Sea for rescue mission
China is making all-out efforts to locate the missing passengers on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, almost two-thirds of them from China, as family members prepared to fly to Malaysia. An...
View ArticleFears for Chinese missing aboard Malaysia Airlines flight
Messages of sympathy for missing passengers on board Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, almost two-thirds of them from China, filled the countrys social media on Sunday (9 March 2014), as distraught...
View ArticleYunnan vice-governor and Mayor of Tea, Shen Peiping, subject of graft...
Shen Peiping, vice-governor of Yunnan province, has been placed under investigation for serious violations of party discipline and the law, a term that usually refers to graft, the Communist Partys...
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