Beijing is racing to achieve its goal of five percent annual growth in 2024, a target considered ambitious by many experts as the world’s second-largest economy faces headwinds including an indebted real-estate market, flagging consumption, and high youth unemployment. Tuesday’s gathering of the Communist Party’s powerful Politburo of senior officials was billed as a chance […]
According to a press release issued by the finance ministry here, the finance minister and Minister for Power, Sardar Awais Ahmad Khan Leghari held meetings with the Governor of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), Pan Gongsheng, and the Vice Administrator of National Energy Administration (NEA), Ren Jingong. Ambassador Khalil Hashmi and officials of the […]
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif sent an interior secretary to Kabul with a message to seek assistance from Afghanistan in the ongoing investigations into the Besham attack. Secretary Interior Muhammad Khurram Agha held talks with the Afghan interim deputy interior minister and shared evidence linking the attack on Chinese engineers with Afghan territory. A foreign office […]
Half of China’s vast territory is now experiencing drought, including parts of the frigid Tibetan Plateau, official data showed- with more high temperatures forecast Thursday for hundreds of millions of people enduring the country’s hottest summer on record. The world’s second-largest economy has been hit by record heat, flash floods and droughts phenomena that scientists […]
BEIJING: Pakistani students who graduated from Chinese institutions are playing important role in technology transfer, said Dr. Abid Ali, Assistant Professor, Department of Entomology, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF), Adjunct Professor at Shenyang Normal University, China, and Research Fellow at Lanzhou University, China. “So far, 20,000 Pakistani students have graduated from China. And frankly, you […]
BEIJING: A Chinese man reunites with his kidnapped son after a 24-year; search that saw him travel half a million kilometres across China on a motorbike; chasing tipoffs on the boy’s whereabouts. Guo Gangtang’s son was just two years and five months old when he gets abduct in 1997 from in front of the family […]
Lord Chris Patten, former governor of Hong Kong, said China’s Communist Party had taken the biggest step. Beijing to overtake Hong Kong electoral system. To obliterate Hong Kong’s freedoms and aspirations for greater democracy under the rule of law. The EU has warned that it may take “additional steps” over the plans announced on Friday. […]
Blue and gold fireworks soared into the sky above the Sydney Opera House; as they do every year, but the harbor below was a ghost town. A fittingly creepy send-off for a year that will not be missed. No light show will illuminate Beijing from the top of the TV tower. The lions of London’s […]
