Tag: China

TAIPEI: Taiwan is confident it can sign a "high standard" trade deal with the United States under a new framework, President Tsai Ing-wen told a visiting group of US lawmakers ...

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island: In a world beset by multiple crises, officials may be looking past the biggest threat of all: China. The talk among central bankers at the Jackson Hole ...

TAIPEI: A US lawmaker delegation arrived in Taiwan on Wednesday (Sep 7) on a previously unannounced trip, the latest group of senior officials from the country to visit the island ...

HONG KONG: Five Hong Kong unionists were found guilty of sedition on Wednesday (Sep 7) for producing a series of illustrated children's books that portrayed the city's democracy supporters as ...

Rescuers had rushed to reach stranded people, restore utilities and send emergency relief, while 11,000 people were evacuated on Tuesday from Luding county, where the quake was centred. Early on ...

BEIJING: China has logged its hottest August since records began, state media reported Tuesday (Sep 6), following an unusually intense summer heatwave that parched rivers, scorched crops and triggered isolated ...

TAIPEI: Taiwan's government expressed its condolences to China on Tuesday (Sep 6) for an earthquake in Sichuan province and said it was ready to send rescuers, in a sign of ...

HONG KONG: Hong Kong has reported its first case of monkeypox, health authorities said on Tuesday (Sep 6), after symptoms were discovered in a 30-year-old man who arrived from the ...

LONDON/COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout plan could be a turning point in its worst economic crisis, but far-from-stable politics and a need to get debt relief from ...

TAIPEI: The combat skills of Taiwan's military are now "more mature" and it is better able to fight thanks to having to repeatedly scramble to see off Chinese forces during ...