Chinese consumers look at 5G smartphones on display at an electronics store in Beijing on Thursday, June 17, 2021. China, the world’s largest smartphone market, has seen domestic mobile phone …
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Beijing ‘hit peak carbon emissions in 2012 due to war on pollution’
But it may be harder for other places, with one expert saying the city was at an advantage to take action since being the capital made it easier to get policies and funding.
Will China’s fast pace in the space race fuel U.S. ambitions?
The U.S. government barred China from work on the International Space Station, so the Chinese are building their own – and fast.
WIDER IMAGE In China’s new Xinjiang: patriotic tourism, riot police and minders
As visitors to China’s Xinjiang enjoyed new theme park-style tourist centres showcasing the region’s Muslim Uyghur culture on a recent national holiday, signs of heavy security and state surveillance …
China Arrests 5 Pro-Democracy Newspaper Editors, Executives; Seizes 38 Computers
“Today’s Hong Kong feels unfamiliar and leaves us speechless. It feels as though we are powerless to stop the regime from exercising its power as it pleases,” the Apple Daily newspaper said in a …
Shenzhen to Set Up Fund to Manage Carbon Credit Sales Income
Shenzhen plans to create a carbon market fund to better manage the local government’s income from selling carbon credits, as authorities around China heed the national call to slash emissions. The …
‘An act of justice’: Beijing hails arrest of 5 senior Apple Daily staff under security law
China has hailed the arrest of five executives from Hong Kong’s pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily as “an act of justice,” after police detained them on Thursday for allegedly breaching the national …
China-US relations: pushing against Beijing, Washington lawmakers plan pro-Taiwan bill
Democratic and Republican leaders of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Asia subcommittee will introduce the Taiwan Peace and Stability Act.
Hong Kong police swoop on anti-Beijing newspaper
Hong Kong’s national security police today arrested five executives of Apple Daily on the suspicion of national security violations and froze business assets worth HK$18 million, or £1.66 million …
China Space Station First Step in Country’s Plans to Colonize Space
Having already sent rovers to the moon and Mars, China will have a permanent human presence in space when astronauts occupy its completed space station next year.
Analysis: Inside Hong Kong’s Apple Daily, China’s besieged liberal media icon
Journalists at Apple Daily, a feisty Hong Kong newspaper, had been bracing for some kind of a crackdown. The splashy Chinese-language tabloid – which mixes celebrity gossip, investigations of the …
China launches its first manned space flight for 5 years, raising the heat in the modern space race
A Chinese spacecraft blasted off on a Long March rocket overnight, the first time China has sent humans into space for nearly five years, in a bid to pick up their standing in the modern…
Quirky China: Man sues over ‘love insurance’, fashion show uses ‘slanty eyed’ stereotypes, Shenzhen hotpot cockroach scam exposed
A man sues an insurer for failing to pay ‘marriage insurance’, a fashion show with ‘Western stereotypes’ causes outrage, and a hotpot fraudster using cockroaches exposed, the stories making news on …
