The news comes after the couple hosted a dinner on Sunday for Terry Brandstad, the newly sworn-in U.S. ambassador to China, Bloomberg reported. Brandstad, who was the governor of Iowa, is expected to arrive in…
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Subterranean home for 400 found in Beijing basement
These are external links and will open in a new window The recent discovery of around 400 people living underneath an upscale Beijing apartment complex has shone fresh light on the Chinese capital’s housing crunch.…
China pushing rise of electric ultra-high-performance cars
Communist leaders see electric vehicles as a way to clear China’s smog-choked cities and as an engine for economic development. “We really haven’t seen non-Chinese companies get into this super-technology market,” said Chris Robinson, who…
China cracks down on moneylenders targeting students
China is cracking down on online moneylenders who target university students, following concerns about the largely unregulated industry. A recent government directive has ordered such lenders to suspend all activities wooing student borrowers. The move…
New Beijing Chief Vows to Finally Win Fight Against Pollution
Beijing’s new top official vowed to tackle the city’s smog problem, a simmering cause of discontent among China’s expanding middle class. Cai Qi, the Communist Party chief in the capital, told a gathering of local…
China bans more synthetic opioids blamed for US drug deaths
Addressing the news conference, Justin Schoeman, Beijing-based country attache for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, said: “I can tell you that when China controls a substance, (new psychoactive substances) or fentanyl-classed substance … ( read…
Iran, China hold joint naval drill in Persian Gulf
The official IRNA news agency said Sunday’s drill included an Iranian warship as well as two Chinese warships, a logistics ship and a Chinese helicopter that arrived in Iran’s port of Bandar Abbas last week.…
Turbulence on Paris-China flight injures 26
Passengers suffered broken bones, cuts to the scalp and soft tissue injuries, the Xinhua state news agency reported. China Eastern Airlines later said it was crucial passengers wear seatbelts as flights descend. “I was on…
China, SKorea put missile rift on hold to join AIIB meeting
China and South Korea put aside hard feelings over Beijing’s objections to a U.S. anti-missile system to join an annual meeting Friday on the South Korean island of Jeju of a China-backed Asian lending bank.…
China police: Bomb behind kindergarten blast; suspect dead
A 22-year-old man made the bomb that exploded at the front gate of a kindergarten in eastern China, killing eight people … the police said at a news conference. He had since moved to a…
China nursery blast: Bomber died in explosion that killed eight
There have also been knife attacks at schools in recent years. In January a man with a kitchen knife wounded 11 children at a kindergarten in southern China’s Guangxi province. Last February a knifeman stabbed…
China nursery blast: Eight dead in Jiangsu explosion
These are external links and will open in a new window At least eight people have been killed and dozens injured in an explosion at a nursery in China. State news agency Xinhua said the…
‘Like Communist China’: Brad Trost campaign manager pushes back against Conservative Party
As CBC News first reported, party officials believe someone in … and said he believes his campaign is the victim of a “frame job.” “It’s like Communist China, for Pete’s sake,” said Joseph Ben-Ami. The…
