BEIJING  - A Chinese supercomputer is the fastest in the world, according to survey results announced Monday, comfortably overtaking a US machine which now ranks second.Tianhe-2, a supercomputer developed by China’s National University of Defense Technology, achieved processing speeds of ...

BEIJING - AFP - Three Chinese astronauts Thursday entered a space module after carrying out a successful docking manoeuvre, state media said, two days after the launch of the country’s longest manned space mission.The astronauts entered the Tiangong-1 space module at 0817 GMT, almost three ...

PARIS - When China’s new first lady Peng Liyuan, a glamorous former folk singer famous in her own right, chose homegrown fashion label Exception de Mixmind for her husband’s first overseas trip, speculation on Chinese social media went into overdrive.Was this Exception’s ...

Pakistan and China Friday signed a memorandum of understanding for cooperation in the fields of energy, mass transit, industrial cities and road sector projects. The MoU was signed between Ministry of Water and Power and China-based M/s Norinco International as a company’s delegation headed ...

LONDON : Brent crude tumbled towards $102 per barrel after the US, nearly doubled the estimate of its shale oil reserves, while prospects of a slowdown in Chinese demand sapped prices. US oil production has soared as new drilling techniques have unlocked shale deposits countrywide. The Energy ...

BEIJING: China is to send its second woman astronaut into orbit on its longest mission yet, space officials said Monday, as the country works towards building a space station.The Shenzhou-10 - the name means “Divine Vessel” - will be launched on a Long March rocket at 0938 GMT Tuesday, ...

RANCHO MIRAGE: China's photogenic "first lady" Peng Liyuan played steel drums in Trinidad, strolled hand-in-hand with a coffee farmer's daughter in Costa Rica and snapped pictures with her iPhone in the shadow of Mayan ruins in Mexico.But the glamorous and popular wife of Chinese President Xi ...

TOKYO : French President Francois Hollande said on Saturday the European Union must work with China and called for a balanced resolution to an escalating trade dispute that began with solar panels but has since spread to European wines. Speaking at a conference with Japanese business ...

KUNMING (China) : Pak-China bilateral trade is likely to reach $14 billion by the end of next year, while improving its balance of payment position, said Pakistan Ambassador to China Masood Khalid. Talking to newsmen here, he said Pakistan’s export to China is showing upward trend, and the ...

TOKYO - France’s Francois Hollande was left red-faced in Tokyo on Friday after a slip of the tongue that saw him confuse his Japanese hosts with the Chinese.During a press conference Hollande, speaking in French, referred to the Algerian hostage crisis in January in which 10 Japanese ...

KUNMING : The 1st China-South Asia Expo provides a platform to Pakistani enterprises to create an interface and develop linkages with the Chinese companies and exhibitors from around the world, especially the South Asian countries, said Pakistan's Ambassador to China, Masood Khalid. The ...

It is all very well to talk about visionary leadership, but to make it practically happen requires fresh thinking, new blood, and economic and management expertise. Also, it entails the capacity to think big, long-term and the courage to stand up and compete with the best in the world. The new ...

stockholm- Three of the world's nuclear powers -- China, India and Pakistan -- have increased their nuclear arsenals over the past year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said on Monday.China now has 250 nuclear warheads against 240 in 2012; Pakistan has increased its warheads by ...

Three of the world's nuclear powers -- China, India and Pakistan -- have increased their nuclear arsenals over the past year, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute said Monday.China now has 250 nuclear warheads against 240 in 2012; Pakistan has increased its warheads by about 10 to ...

 BEIJING: China’s official PMI rose to 50.8 in May from 50.6 in April, data showed on Saturday, beating market expectations and raising optimism that the world’s second-largest economy may be stabilising. Investors will get a fuller picture of the Chinese economy on Monday when the ...

BEIJING :China's ruling Communist Party has called for greater political instruction for young university teachers, the education ministry has said. Political education courses are currently mandatory for Chinese youths throughout their schooling, even as adherence to communist ideology has ...

BEIJING  -China will next month conduct its first “digital” technology military exercise, state media said on Wednesday, against growing concern in Washington and elsewhere about Chinese hacking attacks.A brief report by the official Xinhua news agency said the exercise, in north ...

Pakistan’s relations with China, welcome and time-tested as these are, need to be seen and understood in terms of Beijing’s linkages with other countries especially the ones located in our neighborhood.In this context Chinese relationship with India and Afghanistan merits serious ...

BERENE - Applauded by Switzerland's business sector, the country's free-trade deal with China is heavy with symbolism, coming as Beijing locks horns with the European Union in a raft of commercial disputes.The staunchly non-EU Swiss inked a preliminary accord Friday during Chinese Premier Li ...

BEIJING : A section of a cross-country gas pipeline in China exploded on Sunday, injuring at least two people and halting gas supplies, local media said.The second west-east natural gas pipeline, which transports gas from central Asia to south China, exploded in an industrial zone in China's ...

ATTOCKTehreek Istiqlal Central President Rehmat Khan Wardag has lauded Nawaz Sharif’s decision to visit China soon after assuming office of the Prime Minister.While talking to the newsmen here, he said that Nawaz Sharif, during his visit to China, must sign agreements regarding construction ...

GENEVA - China’s Premier Li Keqiang has slammed the European Union for plans to probe the country’s telecom products and impose taxes on its solar panels, Chinese state media reported on Saturday.Cited by the Xinhua news agency, Li said the planned measures would “not only cause ...

London - Commodity prices mostly fell this week as traders balanced weak Chinese data against signs that the US Federal Reserve could curtail its quantitative easing stimulus policy sooner rather than later.Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress on Wednesday that the US central bank could scale ...

DODOMA : Tanzania will continue building a China-funded $1.2 billion gas pipeline from the south of the country to the commercial capital Dar es Salaam despite violent protests over the project, the energy ministry said. Tanzania’s parliament was due to approve the 2013/14 budget proposals by ...

MULTANJamaat-e-Islami Punjab Ameer and MPA-elect Dr Syed Waseem Akhtar has said that those dreaming of friendship with India are not sincere with the country and nation, asking the prime minister-in-waiting to boost ties with China instead.Talking to the journalists on Thursday, he added that China ...

BEIJING  - A special envoy from North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un told one of China's top officials Thursday that Pyongyang wants peace and is willing to pursue dialogue with key countries, state media reported.Envoy Choe Ryong-Hae met Liu Yunshan, a member of the Chinese Communist Party's ...

UNITED NATIONS  - China has offered to send more than 500 soldiers to the UN force seeking to contain militants in Mali in what would be its biggest contribution to UN peacekeeping, diplomats said.The move could be a bid to overcome tensions with the West over the Syria conflict and to ...

ISLAMABAD - The following is the joint statement on comprehensive strategic cooperation between the People's Republic of China and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan issued on Thursday.It said that at the invitation of the Government of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Premier Li Keqiang of the ...

KARACHI - Karachi Chamber of Commerce & Industry have appreciated the Pak-China governments for signing 12 agreements/MoUs focusing on further constructing vibrant economic and trade relations and building economic corridor. KCCI’s President Muhammad Haroon Agar has congratulated the ...

The two-day visit of Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang to Pakistan that began yesterday is designed to give a fillip to the two countries’ political, economic and strategic relations, thus reaffirming and reinforcing their already existing exemplary ties. Speaking at a luncheon held in the ...