China will ban hidden door handles on cars starting in 2027

China will ban hidden door handles on cars, commonly used on Tesla’s electric vehicles and many other EV models, starting next year. All car doors must include a

US wants to create a critical minerals trading bloc to counter China

Workers use machinery to dig at a rare earth mine in Ganxian county in central China’s Jiangxi province The Trump administration announced Wednesday that it

TSMC to make advanced AI semiconductors in Japan

Taiwan’s chipmaker TSMC said yesterdayit will be manufacturing some of the world’s most cutting-edge semiconductors in Japan to meet booming artificial intelligence-related demand, in a

Hong Kong firm begins proceedings over ruling against its Panama Canal port contract

Cranes load a cargo ship at Panama Canal’s Port of Balboa, managed by CK Hutchison Holdings,in Panama City Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison Holdings said yesterday

China’s Xi and Russia’s Putin hold talks by video

Xi and Putin (AP File Photo) Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks via video today (Wednesday), Chinese state

Why China is building so many coal plants despite its solar and wind boom

Even as China’s expansion of solar and wind power raced ahead in 2025, the Asian giant opened many more coal power plants than it had

Beijing to ban hidden door handles on cars starting 2027

China will ban hidden door handles on cars, commonly used on Tesla’s electric vehicles and many other EV models, starting next year. All car

Flooded by cheap Chinese goods, Latin America trying to protect its industries

Hybrid and electric vehicles shipped from China are unloaded from the BYD Changzhou car carrier docked at Terminal Zarate, in Buenos Aires province China has

Pushed by Trump, US allies are resetting relations with China 

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, meets with President of China Xi Jinping at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Jan. 16 Chinese

Marina Bay Sands posts best quarter in casino hotel history

Las Vegas Sands’ Marina Bay Sands property in Singapore delivered a record USD806 million in adjusted property EBITDA for the fourth quarter of 2025. The result,

Xi and Starmer call for deeper China-UK ties amid global turbulence

President Xi Jinping welcomes Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer ahead of a bilateral meeting in Beijing, yesterday The leaders of Britain and China called yesterday for

US ambassador warns of China’s growing manufacturing dominance

The top U.S. envoy to China called yesterday for fair and reciprocal trade between the world’s two largest economies and expressed concern about projections that

China executes 11 members of Myanmar-based group in crackdown on scam operations

China executed 11 people it found guilty of killing 14 Chinese citizens and running scam and gambling operations worth more than $1 billion, authorities said.

Japan’s last pair of pandas have arrived back in China

Japan's last pair of pandas have returned to China yesterday, leaving Japan without the lovable bears for the first time in half a century. The

Chinese tourists avoid Japan amid concerns

Chinese tourist numbers to Japan have plummeted amid diplomatic frictions, security warnings, large-scale flight cancellations, and growing concerns over natural disasters and disease outbreaks, experts

Starmer heads to China seeking a thaw in relations but risking rift with Trump

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is heading to China, seeking a thaw in relations with Beijing at a time of

Trump invests in another US rare earth miner to loosen China’s grip on supply

The U.S. is taking a minority stake in an Oklahoma rare earth miner, the latest government investment in the sector as it seeks to minimize

Manila tells Beijing it is alarmed over escalating verbal tussle in sea dispute

The Philippines told China yesterday that it is alarmed about heated exchanges with Chinese diplomats in Manila over the long-standing, seething territorial dispute between the two

The last two pandas in Japan are leaving for China as ties are strained 

Giant panda Xiao Xiao walks in its enclosure on the final day of public viewing before departing for Chinaat Ueno Zoo in Tokyo, yesterday Japanese

Across the forgotten walls of an island, a flock of bird murals rises 

An Amur Paradise Flycatcher, left, and a Swinhoe’s White-eye are seen painted on the wall of an abandoned house near Wang Tong village, Lantau, Hong Kong T

As Trump talks tariffs, his Argentine ally welcomes a first shipload of Chinese EVs

The vast field of over 5,800 electric and hybrid vehicles gleamed on the cargo deck of the BYD Changzhou, a Chinese container vessel unloading yesterday

Two activists plead not guilty in national security trial

Pro-democracy activist Tang Ngok-kwan waits outside the West Kowloon Magistrates’ Courts to attend a trial, yesterday Two organizers of Hong Kong’s long-running vigil commemorating the

China meets initial soybean purchase goal, but Trump’s policy could disrupt deal

China has fulfilled its initial commitment to buy 12 million metric tons of soybeans from the U.S., but it’s not clear if the trade agreement

Fair use of law urged as foreign cases rise 50%

Chinese courts have been urged to improve their adjudication over foreign-related cases by emphasizing fairness, impartiality, accessibility, efficiency and a people-centered approach, in a bid to

UK approves a ‘mega’ Chinese Embassy in London, despite criticism

A general view of Royal Mint Court where is planning site for the new London Chinese embassy, near the financial district Britain's government yesterday approved a

Islamic State group claims blast on Chinese restaurant in Kabul

The interior of a Chinese restaurant is seen a day after an explosion killed at least seven people, including a Chinese national, in Kabul, yesterday The

Population falls again as births drop to lowest rate since 1949 communist revolution

How do you persuade a population to have more babies after generations of limiting families to just one? A decade after ending China’s longtime one-child

Philippines discovers new gas deposit near disputed waters

Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced yesterday the discovery of a new natural gas deposit near the disputed South China Sea, which could shield his

Canada’s leader leaves China pronouncing success, but Trump lurks in the background 

Canadian leader Mark Carney met China’s Xi Jinping last week. The two statesmen talked. Fractured relationships began to heal. And a third man, though he wasn’t

Aimed at the growing number of young Chinese who live alone, a new app asks: ‘Are you dead?’

In China, the names of things are often either ornately poetic or jarringly direct. A new, wildly popular app among young Chinese people is definitively

A new era for Canada-China relations? Carney signals change in Beijing

Canada’s PM Mark Carney, center, walks through a hotel lobby in Beijing On the first trip by a Canadian leader to China in eight years,

A half-century journey from Pierre Trudeau to Mark Carney

Canada’s Prime Minister Pierre E. Trudeau (right) shakes hands with Mao Zedong, party chief of the People’s Republic of China Oct. 13, 1973 Canada, under Pierre

Former Navy sailor sentenced to 16 years for selling information about ships to Chinese

In this aerial photo taken Aug. 2, 2014, the U.S. Navy USS Essex is shown docked near downtown Seattle A former U.S. Navy sailor convicted of selling

Conviction in Jimmy Lai’s case demonstrates effectiveness of legal system for safeguarding national security

The conviction in Jimmy Lai’s case was based on a solid and comprehensive chain of evidence, demonstrating the robustness and effectiveness of Hong Kong’s legal

Red lines and increasing self-censorship reshape once freewheeling press scene

From 18th place to 140th. That’s how much Hong Kong’s ranking plunged in a global press freedom index over some 20 years. Behind the

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