Chinese President has begun a five-day visit to Japan as he arrived in the capital city Tokyo on Tuesday, May 06, 2008. This is the first trip by a Chinese head in a decade. After Mr. Hu Jintao arrived in Tokyo, he said that he hoped his visit would enhance friendship between the two nations. Both ...

Chinese President Hu Jintao is due to visit Japan on Tuesday, May 6, 2008. The visit is the first by a Chinese head of state in over a decade. Both the Asian giants are hopeful that the visit will facilitate steady reconciliation between them despite lingering disputes. In a sign of how crucial the ...

The representatives of the Dalai Lama and Chinese government, who recently met to deliberate upon the continuing unrest in Tibet, have announced to further talks on the issue. The recent Tibetan uprising following a Chinese crackdown has been so intense that it has relegated the approaching 2008 ...

Participants at the Asian Development Bank\'s annual meeting in Spain said today that India must grow its infrastructure spending and change its labour market like China has done, if it wants to grow as fast as China. Economist Bibek Debroy, who has studied both the countries, said that China\'s ...

Following the outbreak of enterovirus 71 or EV-71, which is a kind of hand, foot and mouth disease children are susceptible to, the health ministry in China has announced to take up a more serious approach in order to curtail its spreading. It has already caused the death of some 22 children. This ...

Ahead of the talks between the representatives of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese officials, China has started a fresh array of criticism against the Tibetan spiritual leader. China accused Dalai Lama of playing a key role in the anti Chinese protests in Tibet. The criticisms can well hamper ...

China has secretly built a nuclear submarine base, which can pose a major threat to the security of Asian countries and American interest in the region. The underground submarine base has the capacity to conceal at least twenty vessels. The huge underground submarine base is located on the southern ...

China has very tactfully and diplomatically used the occasion of Everest Torch run to ease tension regarding the Tibet issue and hand over the olive branch to Tibetans. The Chinese government recently announced the 50 member squad which will take the Olympic flame to the world’s highest peak ...

Representatives of Tibetan spiritual leader, Dalai Lama, are leaving for China to participate in dialogues which aims to end crisis in Tibet. The talks would be the first official one between the Chinese government and the representatives of Dalai Lama after violence broke out in the Tibet early ...

China instated the world’s longest cross Sea Bridge on Thursday, May 01, 2008, connecting the commercial city of Shanghai with the port and industrial city of Ningbo. The 36 km bridge will initially be opened to traffic on a trial operations basis at midnight. The bridge is aimed to greatly ...

In the very first trail associated with the anti-China riots in Tibet the previous month, a Chinese court on Tuesday, 29 April, sentenced 17 people. The sentences were pronounced by the Intermediate People\'s Court of Lhasa in an open session and it ranged from three years to life in prison. Though ...

In a terrible collision between two passenger trains in the eastern province of China, nearly 45 people are reported dead and more than 250 people are injured according to news agencies. The accident occurred in early hours of Monday, April 28, 2008 in the Shandong province. Heavy causalities have ...

The International Criminal Police Organization, Interpol has revealed on Friday, April 25, 2008 that there is a likelihood of a terrorist attack during Beijing Olympics. Interpol Secretary General, Ronald Noble remarked that there is a ‘real possibility’ that the Beijing Olympics will ...

China has finally agreed to hold talks with the representatives of the Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama on Tibet. For weeks the world fraternity did pressurize China to open dialogues with Dalai Lama and end the crisis in Tibet. It is to be noted that violence broke out in Tibet early this year ...

The Chinese have found a new way out for gathering support on the Tibet issue from overseas demonstrators. Chinese citizens have resorted to sending the nations flag to pro-Chinese demonstrators overseas. They are donating thousands of Chinese flags to be used in Pro-China rallies overseas. The ...

A recent European Union (EU) presidency statement says that EU supports the endeavor of China to provide stability as well as foster economic and social development in Tibet. The statement quoted the Slovenian Foreign Minister, Dimitrij Rupel as saying that it will be in the interest of both the ...

The Beijing International Airport gives you the glimpse of China\'s billion dollar infrastructure and its vision of 21st century air travel. China is going to host the Olympic games of 2008 and it is crystal clear that during this period the country will witness a huge number of people coming from ...

China on Saturday said that it will soon reopen Tibet to foreign tourists and will restore the religious services of the temples. According to the reports of the Chinese media, Tibet would be reopened to the foreign tourists on May 1, 2008, but the Chinese authorities are yet to confirm it. It is ...

China has changed its plan to re-open conflict-hit Tibet to outsiders from 1 May , informed a tourism official from this Himalayan region on Thursday 17 April.  The official who reported to AFP via phone agreed that reopening of Tibet to foreign as well as domestic visitors has been delayed ...

CNN, a prominent TV news network of the US, has clarified that it meant no offence when one of its commentators remarked recently that the Chinese were ‘goons’ and that the products made by them was ‘junk’. These controversial remarks on China were made by Jack Cafferty in ...

As per the spiritual leader of the Tibetans, Dalai Lama who is currently in the United States to address a conference on compassion, the representatives of the Chinese and his own are holding talks through private channels. ‘Some efforts’ are under way, the exiled Tibetan Buddhist ...

China, on Sunday, detained 9 Buddhist monks on charges that they had bombed a government office building in east Tibet on March 23, 2008. Though there were no causalities suffered in the bombings, but Xinhua, the news agency which reported the matter failed to explain why it did not report the ...

Chinese President Hu Jintao said on Saturday that Tibet is an internal affair of China. He also said that the unrest in Tibet is a threat to Chinese sovereignty. It is to be noted that in the past few days several world leaders have asked China to peacefully settle the Tibet Crisis. The US strongly ...

In a meeting with visiting Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, the Chinese President Hu Jintao has said that China’s contention with the Dalai Lama clique is basically pegged on the question of national unity and has nothing to do with ethnicity, religion or human rights. President Hu ...

The differing reports on the chaotic Olympic torch relay published by the media in China indicate the country’s confusion over how to respond to the worldwide protests against it. While one headline reads, ‘Warm reception in cold London’, another says ‘Chinese outraged over ...

China is upset over the US- Tibet resolution, saying that the resolution has hurt the feelings of the Chinese. Jiang Yu, the foreign ministry spokeswoman said that the resolution is anti Chinese whereas the state media said that the group linked with Dalai Lama\'s India Based government in exile, ...

In order to alleviate the air traffic rush during the Olympics Games, China has introduced a new route asking aeroplanes now to fly between Europe and some Chinese cities by bypassing Beijing. Now that the new air corridor has been put into place, aeroplanes operating from Europe to Shanghai, ...

A media tour convened by the Chinese government in the traditional Tibetan region in west China’s Gansu province on 9 April 2008 was upset by a group of about 20 monks. The monks said they wanted their exiled-spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to return to Tibet, further underscoring that they ...

The Beijing Olympic organizers have pledged that “no force” can stop the Olympics games torch relay. This announcement comes after the interruption caused in the Olympic torch relay in London and Paris recently by the supporters of Tibet. Beijing Olympic organizing committee (BOCOG) ...

China has criticized a newly proposed US resolution on the Tibet issue as being partial and has asked American lawmakers not to meddle in its business. A Chinese foreign ministry statement posted on its website said that the US resolution did not pay any attention to the ‘criminal acts’ ...