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BEJING (Web Desk) The stricken Iranian oil tanker in the East China Sea could burn for as long as one month, South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries told Reuters on Wednesday, as the blaze raged for a fourth day following a collision with a freight ship.Dozens of rescue boats …

BEIJING (Web DeskK) Carrie Gracie, the China editor for Britain’s public broadcaster, the BBC, has resigned from her post in Beijing due to pay disparities with her male colleagues, according to an open letter she wrote.The BBC has come under fire recently for paying male employees more and has pledged …

BEIJING (Web Desk) US President Donald Trump‘s tirade against Pakistan has appeared to further boost economic and defence ties between Beijing and Islamabad, as China is in talks with Pakistan to build its second overseas military base close to Iran’s Chabahar port, a report by Chinese state-run daily said.The report …

REYKJAVIK (Web Desk) A coach carrying Chinese tourists visiting Iceland overturned on Wednesday, killing one person and leaving 12 others seriously injured, local authorities said.The 44 passengers in the coach were all Chinese nationals, a police spokesman told AFP.The most seriously injured were taken by helicopter to the capital Reykjavik, …

BEIJING (Web Desk) Ministers from Afghanistan, Pakistan and China met in Beijing on Tuesday where they agreed to work together to tackle the threat of terrorism.The first trilateral meeting of foreign ministers from the countries comes as China steps up its investment in its neighbouring nations as part of its …

BEIJING (Web Desk) The first trilateral China-Afghanistan-Pakistan Foreign Minister’s Dialogue is being held in Beijing to discuss development, connectivity, security and counter-terrorism.Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif, who is representing Pakistan at the dialogue, emphasised that peace is the collective goal of the three neighbourly nations.Peace and development are in the interests …

BEIJING (Web Desk) China has “reasonably” expanded its islands in the disputed South China Sea and this year construction projects there including radar facilities covered about 290,000 square meters (72 acres), according to a new government report.The number was broadly similar to one provided by a US think tank earlier …

TAIWAN (Web Desk) Taiwan is facing a new source of pressure from rival China as the communist government increasingly often sends military aircraft to skirt the island, a challenge to the local armed forces.Planes from China flew near Taiwan in November and December, raising concern last week at the presidential …

BEIJING (Web Desk) At least 10,000 people were killed in the Chinese army’s crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Tiananmen Square in June 1989, according to a newly released British secret diplomatic cable that gives gruesome details of the bloodshed in Beijing.Minimum estimate of civilian dead 10,000,” the then British ambassador …

BEIJING (Web Desk) A court in Beijing on Thursday handed down sentences of up to 15 years in jail to 50 people deported from Kenya for telecoms fraud, including 22 from self-ruled Taiwan, a case that infuriated Taiwan’s government.Over the past two years countries including Kenya, Spain, Vietnam and Cambodia …