Tag: China

Beijing: China will develop a prototype middle-to-low-speed magnetic-levitation train with a speed of 200km/hour by 2021, its developers said Wednesday. According to CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co. Ltd., a review committee has approved a plan for developing the maglev train and support facilities, Xinhua reported. Design and construction will begin immediately, said Zhou Qinghe, chairman of […]

WeChat sent account holders a notice they violated rules but gave no details, according to the founder of an LGBT group, who asked not to be identified further out of fear of possible official retaliation. She said at least dozens of accounts were shut down, all at about 10 p.m. on Tuesday.

Beijing: Scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences have recently found a fossilised body piece of an extinct class of marine animal known as Cystoidea or cystoids in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. The fossil, that dates back some 400 million years, was discovered in Tongzi County while the scientists were studying a geological section in […]

London: China’s top-selling smartphone Honor, which aims to expand aggressively in India this year, will be ready to take off in the next two quarters, the company’s president believes. Huawei’s sub-brand Honor has emerged as one of the fastest growing smartphone brands in the first quarter in India — entering the list of top five […]

Beijing: Chinese tech company Smartisan has claimed that its newly-launched “R1” flagship smartphone comes with 1TB storage and is capable of running a computer. The “Smartisan R1” is available online, with prices ranging from $549 for a 64GB storage device to $1390 for the massive 1TB version, Abacus.com reported late Thursday. The dual-SIM phone features […]

Beijing: Chinese scientists have developed a lead carbon battery for storing power generated from solar panels and windmills and claimed that with such devices, the electricity supply is stable for use. An energy storage system with the batteries was piloted in Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics in northeast China’s Liaoning Province, Xinhua news agency reported. […]

Beijing: A Chinese space engineering company is building an advanced type of space cargo transport aircraft that will take its maiden flight in 2019. The new aircraft is being developed using technology such as space inflatable deployment, flexible heat shielding and composite materials. These will enable it to have a high bearing ratio at a […]

Washington: More than 95 per cent of the world’s population is breathing unhealthy air, with India and China jointly contributing to over 50 per cent of global deaths attributed to pollution, a new report has found. According to the annual State of Global Air Report, published on Tuesday by the Boston-based Health Effects Institute (HEI), […]

Beijing: China on Monday hinted it won’t push for fugitive Indian jeweller Nirav Modi’s arrest, who is suspected to be in Hong Kong, saying the Chinese autonomous region has its own set of judicial rules and India can deal with the authorities directly. India has reportedly asked Hong Kong to arrest the main accused in […]

San Francisco: Chinese officials have busted a gang that was involved in smuggling iPhones worth 500 million yuan (roughly $79.5 million) into the country using drones, the media reported. “Shenzhen customs cracked a criminal network that smuggled imported electronic products using the unmanned overhead line, commonly known as ‘flying line’ in Shenzhen-Hong Kong border area,” Legal […]

Beijing: In a historic decision, China on Sunday removed the two-term limit on presidency and vice presidency, clearing the decks for the all-powerful President Xi Jinping to rule the world’s most populous country indefinitely. Scrapping the 35-year-old rule brought by “paramount” leader Deng Xiaoping to prevent the country from returning to one-man rule like that […]

Beijing: China does not want a trade war with the US and will not start one, but can handle any related challenges and will defend national and the Chinese people’s interests, Minister of Commerce Zhong Shan said on Sunday. Trade wars leave no winners, only disastrous outcomes for the two countries and the rest of […]

New Delhi: China has built helipads, trenches and other infrastructure in Doklam to maintain its troops during winters, Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday. Asked if it is a fact that China has constructed seven helipads in Doklam and tanks and missiles have been stationed there, Sitharaman, in a written reply to the Rajya […]

Beijing: Salman Khan’s film “Bajrangi Bhaijaan”, over two years after releasing in India, got off to a flying start in China by raking in Rs 18 crore. “Bajrangi Bhaijaan” is about a man who reunites a Pakistani girl lost in India with his family by crossing the tense border between two hostile countries. The movie […]

Washington: The US Department of Defence (DOD) was forced to correct several mistakes in its Nuclear Posture Review after an initial version of the report released last week labelled Taiwan as part of China, the media reported. A copy of the report was temporarily removed from the DOD’s website over the weekend after the Taiwan error […]