India and China announced Tuesday they would resume joint military exercises after a four-year gap, a move designed to build trust in the often prickly relationship between the world's two most populous nations.
After Indian Defence Minister A.K. Antony hosted talks with his Chinese...
Could it be only six weeks ago that Ireland had to accept an EU/ECB and IMF bailout?
If you were away from the market for a few weeks and had no idea what was going on, you could be forgiven for asking "What debt crisis?"
The euro is comfortably above 1.30 to the US dollar and, despite...
BANGKOK, 6 DECEMBER, 2010: Thailands Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban revealed on Monday that the construction of the 800 billion baht (RM84.03 million) high speed train project is scheduled to start next year, Thai News Agency (TNA) reported.
The high speed trains, travelling 200...
Two bullet trains wait for maintenance at the bullet train base in Wuhan, capital of Hubei province, in this file photo. (Xinhua Photo)
Chinese high-speed train producers have moved to take a bigger slice of the global pie as China's ambition to build the world's largest high-speed...
This photo released on Nov. 8, 2010 shows a part of the moon's Sinus Iridum, sent back by Chang'e-2, China's second unmanned lunar probe. Chinese State Administration of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defence published Monday pictures of moon's Sinus Iridum sent back by Chang'e-2...
BEIJING, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) -- China's Tianhe-1 has overtaken Nebule to regain top spot as China's fastest computer according to a new list of China's Top 100 supercomputers released Thursday.
On the biannual world TOP 500 list published in June, China's Nebulae machine took the second spot...
TEHRAN (AFP) Iran's main economic partner China has invested around 40 billion dollars in the Islamic republic's oil and gas sector, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday.
Deputy Oil Minister Hossein Noqrehkar Shirazi also said that Tehran's oil exports to China fell by 30 percent in...
HONG KONG The Heavenly Palace, the first module in Chinas permanent space station, will be launched next year, a senior aerospace official confirmed Wednesday.
The official, Qi Faren, said the craft, an orbiting laboratory known in Mandarin as Tiangong-1, would initially serve as a...
China's holdings of US Treasury bonds tumbled in December, allowing Japan to take over as the top holder of American government debt, according to Treasury data released Tuesday.
China's bond holdings dropped substantially to 755.4 billion dollars in the last month of December from 789.6...
WUHAN, China — The world’s largest human migration — the annual crush of Chinese traveling home to celebrate the Lunar New Year, which is this Sunday — is going a little faster this time thanks to a new high-speed rail line.
The Chinese bullet train, which has the...
(FT) -- China overtook Germany last year to become world export champion, official figures confirmed on Tuesday.
December trade figures for Germany highlighted the hit Europe's largest economy took in 2009 from the collapse in global economic confidence at the start of the year. German goods'...
Long Beach, California (CNN) -- Google co-founder Sergey Brin on Friday said he's optimistic that his search engine will not have to pull out of China over hacking and censorship issues.
"I'm an optimist. I want to find a way to work within the Chinese system and provide more and better...
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) -- The World Bank may seek to “co- invest” with China in African manufacturing projects, helping poor nations to add value to exports and create jobs, President Robert Zoellick said.
China can bring expertise in building infrastructure and lessons from its own...
The Chinese space agency could land its first astronauts on the moon within a decade in a move that would mark the beginning of a new age of lunar exploration, experts said today.
The decision by the Obama administration to scrap Nasa's plans to return to the moon leave China well placed to...
Feb. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Tibet’s economy will grow at least 14 percent this year and may outpace China’s for a decade as the government boosts spending in the autonomous region to improve social stability, China International Capital Corp. said.
Chinese President Hu Jintao last...
China South Industries Group Corporation (CSG) realized a revenue of 197.1 billion yuan in 2009, up by 29.6 percent year on year. With 186.2 billion yuan total assets (an increase of 16.1 percent), CSG is listed in the world's top 500 enterprises for the first time.
As a giant state-owned...
13:29 GMT, February 4, 2010 LONDON | As the Xinhua news agency reports, a top British military official met on Wednesday with visiting Deputy Chief of General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Ma Xiaotian, pledging to strengthen bilateral military ties.
Jock Stirrup, Chief of the...
A senior official in charge of Internet security has claimed that the country has become the world's biggest victim of cyber attacks.
In an interview with Xinhua over the weekend, Zhou Yonglin, deputy chief of the operations department of China National Computer Network Emergency Response...