Most smokers in China, the world’s largest tobacco consumer, have no intention of kicking the habit and remain unaware of some of its most damaging health effects, Chinese health officials and outside researchers said Wednesday.…
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China struggling to end world-leading cigarette habit: study
BEIJING – A decade-long study has found that most smokers in China, the world’s largest consumer of tobacco, have no intention of quitting and remain unaware of the damaging health effects. The study released Wednesday…
China May factory activity holds up on boost from steel, construction
BEIJING China’s manufacturing and services sectors expanded at a solid pace in May thanks to robust construction and infrastructure investment, welcome news for authorities trying to strike a balance between maintaining stable economic growth and…
Beijing’s rickshaws teeter between tradition, survival
The makeshift red-canopied vehicles are ubiquitous in Beijing: rickshaws traversing narrow alleyways and skyscraper-lined avenues alike. A historic mode of transport, they have survived China’s modernisation, and remain an integral part of city living ……
China factory activity steady in May, services rebound
HONG KONG (AP) — Growth in China’s factory activity was steady last month while the services industry rebounded, according to data released Wednesday that signal the recovery in the world’s No. 2 economy is holding…
China-built railway biggest Kenya project since independence
Kenya’s president on Tuesday opened the country’s largest infrastructure project since independence, a Chinese-backed railway costing nearly $3.3 billion that eventually will link a large part of East Africa to a major port on the…
Japan urges China to pressure North Korea
Japan on Tuesday urged China to exert greater pressure on North Korea to stop its nuclear and missile development, saying Beijing’s role in getting Pyongyang to abandon those efforts was “crucially important.” Japanese Foreign Minister…
Japan urges China to do more to pressure North Korea
Japan has urged China to do more to influence North Korea to help pressure the country to stop its nuclear and missile development. Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida says that during talks in Tokyo on…
China is behaving like a ‘bully’ in South China Sea: McCain
In a speech in Sydney, McCain said China was asserting itself globally, best illustrated by militarizing artificial islands in the South China Sea, a claim repeatedly rejected by Beijing. “I think it is very clear…
Donald Trump says North Korea missile launch a ‘great disrespect’ to China
US President Donald Trump says North Korea showed “great disrespect” to its major ally China by “shooting off yet another ballistic missile”. Early on Monday morning, North Korea launched a short-range ballistic missile that flew…
China’s News Websites Face Harsh Discipline
Chinese netizens will soon have nothing but government-allowed content to read and watch, and that’s not an exaggeration. The Chinese government is conducting the most serious crackdown so far on China’s five biggest non-government news…
China must do more to restrain North Korea’s nuclear and missile programmes says Japan
Pyongyang’s official KCNA news agency said today a new ballistic missile controlled … They also discussed regional issues of concern, with China’s foreign ministry saying in a statement that Yang told Japan it should view…
In rural China, body in the woods turns out to be blow-up doll
Villagers in a rural part of Yunnan, southwestern China called police after finding what they thought … Wayao village to find an inflatable doll lying abandoned in the woods, news website Yunnan.cn reports. Officers disposed…
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