CHINESE COMMITMENT: Giorgio Armani, Prada and OTB received the “Award for the contribution of the latest fashion trend in China” during an event organized last week in Beijing by the Montenapoleone District association and the Italian embassy. The former represents more than 130 global luxury brands situated in Milan’s luxury fashion streets spanning from Via … Read more
“More broadly, we need to think about how we can, and what tools we need, to help maintain the status quo.” 02:36 Mainland China launches military drill near Taiwan in ‘severe warning to separatist forces’ Mainland China launches military drill near Taiwan in ‘severe warning to separatist forces’ “I don’t think … that [Chinese President] … Read more
A man in the southwestern Chinese province of Sichuan has been arrested for spreading rumours about the stock market amid a crackdown by law enforcement on acts that undermine the country’s fragile economic recovery. A 30-year-old man in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan and a commercial hub, was detained over suspicions he used news about … Read more
The National Development and Reform Commission ( NDRC), China’s top economic planner, unveiled a directive on its website on Wednesday on building the country’s product carbon footprint system. The document is aimed at developing an internationally recognised system for counting the full life cycle of a product’s carbon footprint, which includes measuring the total greenhouse … Read more
BEIJING: The first snowfall of winter arrived in Beijing early Monday (Jan 11), covering the Chinese capital with a mantle of white overnight and plunging the city into freezing temperatures, with even colder weather looming this week in northern China. Snowfall reached 5.8m on average by early Monday, with the highest snowfall of 10.2mm recorded … Read more
“Some of the data is important and sensitive, and even involves state secrets, posing a serious threat to our national security,” it said, without naming specific GIS software. Cyber dangers threaten China’s infrastructure, state security chief warns The ministry noted that as information technology advances, GIS data is both “an important strategic data resource” and … Read more
Renowned Chinese doctor and activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS virus epidemic in rural China in the 1990s, has died at the age of 95 at her home in the United States. Gao’s outspokenness about the virus outbreak embarrassed the Chinese government and drove her to live in self-exile for over a decade in … Read more
It is good that the FBI brought finally down a U.S. ambassador who had been a career-long spy for Cuba. But did it need 40 years to do it? Because that is how long alleged spy Manuel Rocha, 73, of Miami, a veteran State Department official and former U.S. ambassador to Bolivia, had been secretly … Read more
A Taiwanese army pilot was offered US$15 million to defect by landing an US-made transport helicopter on a People’s Liberation Army Navy aircraft carrier during a military drill near the island, according to prosecutors. But the scheme fell through after the officer was arrested in August for allegedly spying for Beijing, a Taiwan court has … Read more
To export at least 98 billion cubic metres per year of gas from Russia to China as promised by Russian President Vladimir Putin, figures from Spanish multinational financial services firm BBVA showed that the new pipeline is needed because the Power of Siberia 1 is limited to 67 billion cubic metres per year. It’s a … Read more
