Besides building landing facilities and other physical structures in the disputed islands in South China Sea, China now plans to seek private investors to put up more infrastructure there.
China is planning to launch more than 20 space missions in 2016.
Molly Sano, a Seattle woman who adopted a three-year-old Chinese boy born deaf, is seeking the biological parents of her son who are from Ningbo, China. The impoverish parents abandoned Long Miao in May 2012 and Sano renamed him Bennett.
Jilin Province’s forestry bureau has reported finding paw prints made by an endangered Siberian tiger near the city of Jiaohe on Dec. 11, 2015, China Daily reported on Tuesday.
Official data revealed on Thursday, Jan. 14, showed that China has handled more patent applications for inventions than any other country for the fifth year running in 2015, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
A former ambassador to the United Nations from Antigua and Barbuda is in big trouble following the admission in a Manhattan federal court on Thursday by a Chinese businesswoman that she bribed the UN official more than $1 million.
Following the success of local fantasy films, Chinese moviegoers will see one again with the premier of "The Mermaid" on Feb. 8, timed with the celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year.
Tensions have been rising in different parts of Asia ever since 2016 started, China Daily reported. North Korea performed a nuclear test, the United States flew a nuclear-capable B-52 bomber over the Korean Peninsula, and Japan is boosting its military presence in the South China Sea.
The record $1.6-billion jackpot in the Powerball lottery in California, split by three winners, sparked lottery purchase in China. Although the move was risky, some mainland Chinese asked relatives in the U.S. to buy them tickets in the hope of becoming a billionaire, or at least several times over a millionaire. Because the prize in the two state-run lotteries – the China Sports Lottery and China Welfare Lottery – are not that huge in comparison to those in the U.S., sellers of lotteries proposed higher jackpots to entice more buyers. Su Goujing, founder of the China Lottery Industry Salon, cites that a 2-yuan lottery ticket would win a maximum amount of only 5 million yuan ($760,000). In contrast, the Powerball lottery ticket cost only $2 each and yielded each of the three winners $533 million each if they would receive annual payments. Su points out, “You have to spend around 300 to 400 yuan if you want to win the highest prize of 2.2 billion yuan,” quotes Chinadaily. The prize is the jackpot in China’s current lottery. In pushing for more lotteries, especially after Beijing suspended online lottery, run by 500com.Ltd and China Sports Lottery, in 2015, Su points out that current lottery products available could not meet demand. One risk in buying lottery tickets overseas is that the seller or the relative in the U.S. could claim they brought the winning ticket, and the Chinese who really purchased it would find it difficult to prove his claim for lack of physical evidence. Despite the suspension of online lotteries, it still happens across China illegally. Shanghaidaily reports that one vendor in Taobao, the largest e-commerce platform in China, got a business partner in Chicago who buys the lottery tickets on his behalf. He charges 50 yuan ($7.76) for a $2 ticket and wants to be given 3 percent share of winning tickets. Su warns, “With money transfers becoming more convenient on mobile devices, many people could find different ways to participate in illegal lottery activities, which could involve a great amount of money.”
Four weeks ahead of the Chinese Lunar New Year, netizens are having a blast at the symbol for the coming year - the Horse Month of the Monkey Year. The new year, also called Spring Festival, begins this year on Feb. 8 and will last until the Lantern Festival which falls on Feb. 23, according to The Telegraph.
China`s biggest E-commerce company Alibaba is fusing online shopping with good old-fashioned brick and mortar retailing.
China has been warned by Japan not to intrude near the disputed Senkaku Islands.
Cupertino-based Apple enjoyed good sales in the last quarter of 2015 of its iPhones in China even if the global smartphone market was weak for that period.
What a Chinese woman named Xiaoxiao did appears to be another form of ex-sweetheart revenge but does not involved naked pictures. It's not revenge porn, but perhaps revenge fat.
The Chinese government will retain its newly revised family planning policy for the next 20 or 30 years in order to control its large population, due to demographic pressures that the country will face for some time, according to a statement by a senior official on Monday, as reported by the Global Times.
