Education authorities in Beijing have bowed to public pressure and agreed to install air purification equipment in schools and kindergartens in the pollution-plagued capital after smog levels continued to soared in the first days of…
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Southern China faces torrential rain, flood risk after Typhoon Noul hits land
Torrential rain, flooding risks in southern China after Noul makes landfall
Southern China drenched as Typhoon Noul makes landfall
Rescuers scour South China Sea for 23 missing after Vietnamese vessel sinks
Typhoon Noul makes landfall in southern China, with over 700,000 evacuated and flights canceled
Typhoon Noul makes landfall in southern China, forcing mass evacuations
Beijing Central Axis to mark 2nd anniversary of UNESCO World Heritage inscription
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Schools in smog-choked Beijing to install air purifiers
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Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen left for the United States Saturday on her way to Central America, a trip that will be scrutinised by China, incensed by her congratulatory call to Donald Trump. While the focus…
Beijing Warns China Smog Makes The Snow Very Dirty
It seems that even the snow in China is polluted this winter. Thus kids won’t get a chance to throw snowballs at each other or build a snowman. China’s children face a daunting existence this…
Beijing smog time lapse
Covering an actual time of 20 minutes, you can watch this time lapse of smog rolling into Beijing in a matter of a few seconds. The NY Times has a short piece on the video,…
China central bank says to maintain prudent, neutral monetary policy in 2017
BEIJING China’s central bank said on Friday it will maintain prudent and neutral monetary policy and keep basically stable liquidity in 2017 as one of its main tasks in the year. It also vowed to…
China Finance Online's Subsidiary Rifa Securities Won Awards as one of Best Hong Kong Securities Brokerage Firms
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Battered bitcoin slides another 12 percent after China warning
“On January 6 the People’s Bank of China Business Management Department and the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Financial Affairs jointly met with the relevant regulatory authorities of the ‘currency network’,” the PBOC said in the…
In China, no easy solution for right to choose Catholic leadership
The two bishops occupied the opposite sides of Catholicism’s long-standing division in China, and local authorities wanted to make sure Bishop Shao never reached the top office in Wenzhou, which is in the southeastern Zhejiang…
Daily Report: Apple Takes Down The Times’s News App in China
If you are reading this in China, congratulations. Not many people are. That is because Chinese authorities instructed Apple late last month to remove The New York Times news app from the Apple app store.…
DEA chief to visit China as U.S. looks to halt opioid supply
SHANGHAI – The top U.S. drug enforcement official plans to visit China next week, a sign of intensifying efforts to stop the flow of deadly synthetic drugs from China to the United States. The U.S.…
China confirms latest human death from H7N9 bird flu
The 77-year-old man diagnosed in Shandong’s Rizhao city on Tuesday died later the same day, the official Xinhua news agency said. Guangdong authorities said the December bird flu cases were scattered around the province, according…
Frigid northern China hosts snow and ice sculpture festival
HARBIN, China — The city of Harbin in China’s frigid northeast is hosting one of the world’s largest festivals featuring ice sculptures of animals, cartoon characters and famous landmarks. The festival, which officially opens late…
China's Great Wall filmed by drone
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