As reported by a Russian military expert, China is likely to beef-up its nuclear capacity responding to the US global missile defence plans.
 
Lt. Gen. Yevgeny Buzhinsky, former department deputy head in the Russian Defence Ministry said, "At present, China has a very limited nuclear ...

Just when the Indo-Pak secretary level talks are round the corner, Pakistan foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi’s suggestion of including China in the talks has upset India with Indian Defence Minister A.K.Anthony making it very clear that no third country will be allowed in the talks. He ...

Dalai Lama said China is "denying there is a problem" between its government and Tibet despite reports of "suppression ... or restrictions" culturally and religiously of the Tibetan people.
 
China claims Tibetans are "very happy ... much, much, much better than ...

China on Friday summoned the US ambassador over President Barack Obama's meeting with the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama and accused it of "grossly interfering" in the country's internal affairs and "damaging" Sino-US ties.
 
Chinese Vice-Foreign Minister Cui ...

Brushing off Chinese warnings, President Barack Obama met the Dalai Lama to express his "strong support" for human rights and religious freedom for the people of Tibet while encouraging a direct dialogue with China.
 
"The president stated his strong support for the ...

Refusing to bow to demands from Beijing, the White House has reiterated that President Barack Obama will meet the Dalai Lama next Thursday as scheduled.
 
"I do not know if their specific reaction was to cancel it," White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said on Friday when asked about ...

India and China with their large economies growing at 7 and 10 percent respectively are playing a significant role in global economic recovery, according to a top International Monetary Fund (IMF) official.
 
"It's actually true, just by looking at the numbers and the weights that they ...

US is planning to sell weapons to Taiwan. The offer of weapons sales has not yet been accepted by Taiwan.
 
US weapons sale to Taiwan would include 12 Harpoon anti-ship missiles and land attack missiles, 60 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, 114 Patriot missile-defence systems, two mine hunting ...

China has formulated a plan for lasting stability in Tibet, it was announced at a high-level meeting held here.
The meeting, attended by Chinese President Hu Jintao and other senior leaders Jan 18-20, agreed that more efforts must be made to improve the living standards of Tibetans to ensure ...

China, in an effort to curb illegal sales of railway tickets, has launched a new system to issue tickets to passengers based on their identity.
 
The Chinese railways have failed time and again in meeting the ticketing demands of people especially during the Spring Festival exodus as a ...

The chairman of China's Tibet Autonomous Region resigned on Tuesday, 22 months after anti-Chinese protests escalated into deadly violence in the regional capital.
 
The regional government said it had accepted the resignation of Qiangba Puncog, 62, for unspecified reasons.
 
Qiangba ...

China intends to build the world’s highest airport in Tibet which is planned to be built at an altitude of 4, 436 meters.
 
Xu Bo, director of the Tibetan Branch of the China Civil Aviation Administration, said that the airport that shall be constructed at the Naggu territory will be ...

Warning of "severe consequences", China on Thursday cautioned the US against inking any long-term deal to sell weapons to Taiwan.
 
"China firmly opposes arms sales to Taiwan by the United States. Our stance is consistent and clear," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu ...

A massive fire broke out in the coal mine in China yesterday that claimed the lives of eighteen people and trapped nine. The fire broke out in the Lisheng Coal Mine in Huan province after the underground cables caught fire on Tuesday.
 
At least nine workers are believed to be trapped ...

China on Tuesday said it still favoured more international talks on Iran's nuclear programme, one day after the US said it had discussed possible new sanctions against Tehran.
 
Foreign ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu said, "Dialogue and negotiation are the right way of properly solving ...

Relatives of a Briton executed by China on Wednesday blamed the British media, government and human rights campaigners for not pleading his case early or strongly enough.
 
"This is an example of Britain's powerlessness in the world," said Amina and Ridwan Shaikh, whose cousin ...

A massive gas explosion took place today in Hohhot, the capital of North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The explosion has reportedly injured a minimum of four people and left around 1,000 people homeless in Hohhot.
 
As per the sources, the injured victims included two ...

The Supreme People's Court of China on Tuesday declared the death sentence of Akmal Shaikh, a British man who was charged of smuggling drugs into China.
 
According to the source, Shaikh, 53, was caught on Sep 12, 2007 at the Urumqi international airport in China's northwest Xinjiang Uygur ...

More than 40 children living in the vicinity of a battery manufacturing factory in South China were found to have excess lead level in their blood. This led the officials to ask the plant owners to shut it down immediately.
 
An official with Qingyuan municipal government said that Aokelai ...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday publicly admonished Hong Kong leader Donald Tsang for his inability to tackle the "deep-rooted conflicts" in the city.
Tsang was on his annual duty visit to Beijing and the remarks came in the light of electoral reforms in the former British colony ...

A powerful explosion took place yesterday in a mine in North China’s Shanxi province that killed 12 people and left four people injured. Five coal mine executives have been held in custody after the incident.
 
As per a spokesman with the Shanxi Provincial Work Safety Administration, ...

Nepal's Prime Minister Madhav Kumar Nepal accompanied by three ministers reached Chine today to form new economic ties with the country. This is his first official visit to China after he rose to the power in the month of May this year.
 
Madhav Kumar is on his five-day trip and will be ...

The UN human rights commissioner on Friday strongly condemned the 11-year prison term awarded to a prominent Chinese dissident.
 
"The conviction and extremely harsh sentencing of Liu Xiabo mark a further severe restriction on the scope of freedom of expression in China," UN High ...

China's electricity generation capacity will increase to 860 million kilowatts at the end of this year, the second largest after the US, an official said on Friday.
 
According to reports, the nation's power grids coverage has become the world's largest with fast expansion of ultra-high ...

A senior defence official here has justified China's sale of warships and submarines to Pakistan on the ground that India was buying similar systems from Russia and the US.
 
He indicated that China was conscious India might be worried about the sales. Zhai Dequan, deputy director of the ...

China initiated its work on the construction of the world's longest sea bridge today. The sea bridge would link the country’s southern economic hub of Guangdong province to Hong Kong and Macao.
 
Chinese Vice Premier, Li Keqiang launched the project on Tuesday at the inauguration ...

The US-China military engagement “lags behind” and there is a need to give a push to bilateral defence ties says US Pacific Commander Admiral Robert F. Willard.

 
"The US-China military engagement lags behind. We intend to improve military dialogue with China," ...

Chinese analysts fear that the real estate bubble in the country may soon take the situation as in Dubai world crisis.
 
"China's real estate bubble continues to grow in size," said Yi Xianrong, a researcher at the Institute of Finance and Banking at the Chinese Academy of Social ...

Five deals have been struck by the European Union and China on Monday on environmental technology and trade, after holding a conference on world economic recession as well as climate change.
 
The summit was co-chaired by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, European Commission President Barroso and ...

Defence Minister A K Antony has said that Pakistan-China nexus in the military field is a matter of great concern.
 
Speaking at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) founders' day occasion in New Delhi, Antony said, "We have to carry out continuous appraisal of Chinese ...