A Chinese state-run news website has warned celebrities not to involve themselves with members of the Tibetan government-in-exile. It stated that all Chinese residents should prioritize national interests before freedom of religious beliefs.
Beijing is now the home of the second largest number of valuable tech startups in the world, China Daily reported. The state capital has 40 unicorn companies--tech startups with an estimated value of over $1 billion each--coming second to the United States’ Silicon Valley.
Beijing officials are considering a number of programs to help curb congestion in the capital, according to an article by China Daily. New measures are expected to be released by the local city government before April 10, when Beijing’s current traffic restrictions end.
Experts believe that grown-up children who were left behind by their parents are more likely to end up behind bars, reported the Global Times.
The Hong Kong high-speed rail project may be scrapped after the region's Legislative Council failed on Saturday, Feb. 27, to allocate an extra HK$19.6 billion ($2.5 billion) for the rail link to Guangzhou, the Global Times reported.
An unknown motorcyclist threw petrol bombs at the headquarters of the ruling Kuomintang Party (KMT) in Taipei early Sunday morning, the day marking the anniversary of a deadly government crackdown in Taiwan nearly 70 years ago.
Experts note that money laundering methods have become more diversified and complex, leading to increased difficulty in catching the culprits, according to an expert in the issue, China Daily reported.
In a bid to build its own space station, China announced on Sunday that it will send its second orbiting space lab in the third quarter of this year. This will be followed by a manned Shezhou-11 spacecraft in the fourth quarter of 2016. The second space lab will be called Tiangong-2, meaning "Heavenly Palace-2" in Chinese.
The Communist Party of China (CPC) is launching a one-year-long campaign to strengthen its most important values in its 88 million members. The campaign will focus on the education and study of the Party Constitution as well as its rules.
Supporters of Peter Liang have set up a trust fund to help shoulder his legal fees, as well as assist with his living expenses. He is the ex-police officer who was convicted of manslaughter for the fatal shooting of Akai Gurley.
The Chinese government is set to train more pediatricians in a bid to address an expected demand that would be triggered by the implementation of the two-child policy in the country, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
China is fast becoming a major arms exporter worldwide, second only to the United States and Russia. The country's arms exports increased by 88 percent between the periods 2006-2010 and 2011-2015, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) said in a report on Monday.
China faces a shortage of 200,000 pediatricians. The concern created buzz as the country expects a baby boom after it adopted the universal two-child policy.
China and the United States have agreed Wednesday, Feb. 24, on a proposed UN resolution on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and will not accept Pyongyang as a nuclear weapons state, according to White House and United Nations diplomats.
The United States and China have agreed on a U.N. Security Council draft resolution, which aims at toughening sanctions against an obstinate North Korea. A vote on the resolution is expected soon.
