lahore - President Federation of Pakistan Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FPCCI) Zubair Ahmad Malik Monday said that the forthcoming visit of Chinese Premier Li Keqiang to Pakistan would enhance the volume of trade between private sectors of both the countries.The FPCCI chief while talking to ...

Islamabad - Federal Minister for Interior, Malik Mohammad Habib Khan, on Monday chaired a high-level meeting at Ministry of Interior to review security plan made for the upcoming visit of Chinese Prime Minister from May 22. Federal Secretary Interior, Additional Secretary Interior, Director General ...

KARACHI - Famous Chinese company, China International Water and Electric Corporation, Pakistan (CIWEC), which is working on eight important mega projects in Pakistan, has shown keen interest to invest in a water supply project “K-IV” of Karachi Water and Sewerage Board (KWSB).General ...

NEW DELHI - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang arrived in India Sunday on the first stop of his maiden foreign trip, weeks after a border dispute was rekindled by alleged Chinese troop incursions in a disputed region.Li, in a statement quoted by his country's Xinhua news agency, said his choice of India as ...

NEW YORK - Europe’s top trade official for the first time late on Friday officially cited Chinese mobile telecommunications equipment makers Huawei and ZTE Corp for violating anti-dumping and anti-subsidy guidelines.European Union Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said he was prepared to ...

MUZAFFARABAD - A Chinese man working on an energy project in Azad Kashmir was being held Saturday after hundreds of protesters attacked his company offices over the alleged desecration of Holy Quran, officials said. Lee Ping, administration manager of a Chinese consortium building the Neelum Jhelum ...

BEIJING - During his first international trip as a government head, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will pay official visits to India, Pakistan, Switzerland and Germany from May 19 to 27."Li's visit is an important diplomatic activity of the new Chinese government towards neighboring countries and ...

ISLAMABAD - Chinese Premier Li Keqiang will address the sitting of the Upper House of Parliament on 23rd of this month after his joint meeting with Senate Chairman Nayyer Hussain Bokhari and National Assembly Speaker Dr Fehmida Mirza, the Senate Secretariat said on Thursday. In his address to the ...

lahoreThe Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan, Liu Jian, called on PML-N President Muhammad Nawaz Sharif in Raiwind on Wednesday and congratulated him over PML-N’s victory in elections on the behalf of his country. The ambassador emphasised that the Chinese leaders and people had great respect for ...

  BEIJING(AFP): A senior Chinese military officer has said theRyukyu Islands- which includeOkinawaand itsUSmilitary bases - "do not belong toJapan", as a territorial row mounts between the Asian powers. The comments by People's Liberation Army Major General Luo Yuan were published by the China ...

ISLAMABAD - Prime Minister of State Council of the People’s Republic of China, Li Keqiang, will visit Pakistan on May 22nd on the invitation of President Asif Ali Zardari.It is the first ever visit of Prime Minister Li Keqiang to Pakistan after assuming the office. A Foreign Office statement ...

  BEIJING   “Iron Man 3” topped Chinese box offices five days after opening, state media reported on Tuesday, but the modified domestic version of theHollywoodblockbuster has raised some eyebrows. The film starring Robert Downey Jr as the hero Tony Stark has earned 410 million ...

KARACHI  - President Asif Ali Zardari has conferred Hilal-e-Quaid-e-Azam Award on the Chinese Ambassador Liu Jian in recognition of his services for strengthening Pak-China relations.The award was given at a special ceremony in Karachi on Friday. Staff Reporter adds: Sindh Caretaker Chief ...

LONDON - World oil prices slid Wednesday on weak Chinese and US economic data and ahead of the latest weekly snapshot of energy inventories in the United States. Brent North Sea crude for delivery in June fell 80 cents to stand at $101.57 a barrel in London midday deals. New York's main contract, ...

Last month, the Information Office of the State Council, China's cabinet, published a white paper on its armed forces. The document scrutinises the latest situation, fresh challenges and new missions; examines building and development of China's armed forces; reflects on defending national ...

LOS ANGELES (UPI): - A Los Angeles attorney said he has kept an Excel spreadsheet documenting his experiences at 6,297 Chinese restaurants in the United States and elsewhere. David Chan, 64, said the Springfield Cashew Chicken he sampled at Leong’s Asian Diner in Springfield, Mo., marked his ...

Ever since China’s new President Xi Jinping coined the term “the Chinese Dream”, people both within the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and outside have been asking for a definition of the expression. In a visit to the “Road to Revival” exhibit at the National ...

SRINAGAR :  Several dozen Chinese soldiers have set up a remote camp some 10 km inside territory ‘claimed’ by India in the high altitude Himalayan desert of Ladakh, Indian police sources said, in a possible return to border tension between the two countries. An Indian foreign ministry ...

BEIJING/LONDON : Health officials raised further questions on Friday about the source of a new strain of bird flu infecting humans in China after data indicated that more than half of patients had had no contact with poultry.The H7N9 virus has been found in 87 people, mostly in eastern China, and ...

LAHORE - A Chinese language course was launched by the Punjab chapter of the PHMA for its members, mostly consisting of importers and dealers. The PHMA Punjab president Sajjad A. Sheikh, while addressing the concluding ceremony of the language workshop, observed that our majority of the members ...

A six-year-old boy is in trouble in the US after he took the family car for a 6am drive - because he wanted a Chinese takeaway. The unnamed youngster, who could hardly see over the dash, was stopped by police three miles from his home near Detroit, Michigan. He told officers he wanted more of the ...

MOTHESE schoolchildren in southern China are so keen to get to school that they make the perilous journey on narrow wooden ladders every day, with no safety precautions.Their village in the remote Badagong mountains in Sangzhi county is surrounded by sheer drops on every side, making the school run ...

ISLAMABAD - Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Liu Jian called on President Asif Ali Zardari at Aiwan-e-Sadr on Friday.  Yao Wen, Deputy Head of Mission was also present.Matters relating to Pak-China bilateral ties and mutual cooperation in various areas between the two countries came under ...

BEIJING (AFP) - A plan by Hong Kong film star Jackie Chan to move ancient Chinese buildings to Singapore has sparked controversy in a nation already sensitive about losing its artifacts, state media said Tuesday.Beijing has pressured overseas auction houses to cancel the sale of antiques it says ...

HONG KONG (Reuters) - A red bowl with a lotus pattern broke the world record for Chinese Kangxi ceramics on Monday, fetching over $9 million after a bidding war won by a Hong Kong ceramics dealer at the last day of spring sales for global auctioneer Sotheby’s.The five days of sales in wine, ...

LONDON (DS) Chinese has been named Britain’s most popular takeaway. The East Asian cuisine topped a survey of 2,000 people, aged 25-34, carried out by VoucherCodes, drawing 25% of the vote. Indian (23%) and fish and chips (22%) came second and third respectively, while pizza garnered 14% of ...

A CHINESE video game addict has spent the last six years living in an internet cafe, according to reports.Li Meng apparently almost never leaves his chair, except to buy food and take the occasional shower, at the cafe in China’s north-east city of Changchun, in the Jilin province.Reports ...

THAT’s one way to save on the cost of a wedding. These triplet brothers in China’s central city of Huangshi in Hubei Province decided to keep the biggest day of their lives in the family by getting hitched on the same day and celebrating together. Among the 28-year-old triplets, it was ...

QIANJIANG (TG)An enterprising Chinese boss outsourced his 12-year-old daughter's homework assignment to nine of his employees. The senior executive's cunning plan was revealed by the Qianjiang Evening News, after one of his weary workers snitched to the local newspaper. The employee, who only gave ...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - China’s army controls hundreds if not thousands of virulent and cutting-edge hackers, according to a report Tuesday by a US Internet security firm that traced a host of cyberattacks to an anonymous building in Shanghai.Mandiant said its hundreds of investigations showed ...