China’s Commerce Ministry spokesman said yesterday that both China and the United States had reached consensus on trade dispute issues covering agricul-tural products, energy and automobiles, but did not furnish details on any concessions. “Specific details will be announced,” Mr Gao Feng told a weekly press briefing when asked to confirm reports that China was […]
A seven-year-old boy in the northern Indian state of Punjab travelled 280km (124 miles) from his home to get an autograph from cricketer turned politician Navjot Singh Sidhu. Waris Dhillon had begged his father to drive him to Chandigarh city so that he could meet his idol. Dressed in a gold jacket and red bow […]
North Korea often flaunts its military hardware but of late, it appears to be making progress in developing civilian technologies – or at least is claiming to be. As with most things in the country, it is difficult to verify these claims, but it is significant to note the importance being given to technology. In […]
BEIJING (CHINA DAILY/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – After newly elected Maldivian President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih accused China of raising his country’s debt by investing in it, some media outlets have been sensationalising the issue of China creating “debt traps” in the countries along the Belt and Road. How much debt does the Maldives have? The data […]
BEIJING — A Chinese photographer acclaimed for his stark pictures of poverty and pollution was arrested by the police while visiting Xinjiang, his wife said on Friday, in an update on a disappearance that has drawn additional attention to the far western region where hundreds of thousands of Muslims have been detained. The photographer, Lu […]
A resident has been asked to remove Christmas decorations, including a mannequin, from the ledge outside his second-storey Housing Board flat in Clementi for safety reasons. The ledge at Block 351 Clementi Avenue 2 is just above a walkway and near a playground. The centrepiece of the decorations is a mannequin wearing a garland and […]
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United States won a legal battle over “dolphin safe” tuna-labeling on Friday, when the World Trade Organization’s appeals judges dismissed Mexico’s argument that the U.S. labeling rules violated WTO rules. More than 10 years after the dispute first came to the WTO in October 2008, the WTO ruling ended Mexico’s claim […]
Canada should not play US game Editorial China Daily, China A Canadian court granted bail to Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on Tuesday. But the diplomatic incident, which has been manufactured by Washington using Ottawa as a tool to manipulate the extradition system for political not legal ends, is still far from over. There […]
TORONTO (Reuters) – The Canadian dollar lost ground against its broadly stronger U.S. counterpart on Friday as investors worried about signs of slower global growth and braced for a potential interest rate hike next week from the Federal Reserve. At 4:12 p.m. (2112 GMT), the Canadian dollar CAD=D4 was trading 0.2 percent lower at 1.3382 […]
BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s November retail sales grew at their weakest pace since 2003 and industrial output rose the least in nearly three years as domestic demand softened further, underlining rising risks to the economy as China works to defuse a trade dispute with the United States. The world’s second-largest economy has been loosing momentum […]