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Police identified the prime suspect in the attack as "Chen", saying he "recklessly used violence to commit evil", according to state broadcaster CCTV. Following the attack Tangshan authorities sacked the...

EXTREME WEATHER IS "THE NEW NORMAL"  "These individual events fit a pattern of increasing extreme events due to climate change," said Professor Matthias Roth from the Department of Geography at...

BEIJING: Police in China's Henan province have arrested 234 suspects in connection with a rural banking scandal, the public security bureau of the province's Xuchang city said on Monday (Aug...

SHENZHEN: Authorities in China's southern city of Shenzhen temporarily closed the world's largest electronics market of Huaqiangbei and suspended service at 24 subway stations in a bid to curb an...

SHANGHAI: Agricultural Bank of China (AgBank), the country's third-largest commercial lender by assets, said net profit grew 5.5 per cent year on year in the first half of 2022. Profit...

TOKYO: Olympus Corp said on Monday (Aug 29) it had agreed to sell its microscope unit to private equity firm Bain Capital for 427.6 billion yen (US$3.1 billion), in what...

SUKKUR: A huge relief operation was under way on Monday (Aug 29) and international aid began trickling in as Pakistan struggled to deal with monsoon flooding that has affected more...

TOKYO: Japanese automaker Honda Motor plans to set up a new lithium-ion battery plant for electric vehicles in the United States with Korean battery supplier LG Energy Solution, the Nikkei...

BEIJING: Profit at China's state-owned firms fell 2.1 per cent to 2.68 trillion yuan (US$387.54 billion) in the first seven months of the year versus the same period last year,...

BENGALURU: India likely recorded strong double-digit economic growth in the last quarter but economists polled by Reuters expected the pace to more than halve this quarter and slow further toward...