BEIJING (XINHUA) – China’s economy is on more solid ground in the third quarter (Q3) of this year with major indicators showing positive signs of stabilisation, backed by the country’s efforts to balance epidemic control and economic and social development. The country’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 3.9 per cent year on year to CNY30.76 […]
AL KHOR, QATAR (AP) – A pair of giant pandas sent as a gift from China arrived in Qatar on Wednesday ahead of next month’s World Cup. They will take up residence in an indoor enclosure in the desert nation designed to duplicate conditions in the dense forests of China’s mountainous Sichuan province. Eight hundred […]
COLOMBO, SRI LANKA (AP) – Sri Lanka’s president said yesterday his government has started debt restructuring discussions with China, an important step toward finalising an International Monetary Fund (IMF) rescue of the island nation from its worst economic crisis. President Ranil Wickremesinghe told Parliament yesterday that the initial talks will continue after China’s Communist Party […]
TOKYO (AFP) – Badminton is finally emerging from a pandemic that was “threatening the sport”, World Federation Chief Thomas Lund told AFP, but China’s zero-COVID policy means it may face further damaging disruption. Badminton World Federation (BWF) secretary general Lund said the coronavirus pandemic made 2020 and 2021 “a disaster” for the game, forcing tournament […]
CHENGDU (XINHUA) – A female giant panda cub weighing 270.4 grammes became the world’s heaviest captive panda newborn ever registered, a panda research centre in southwest China’s Sichuan Province said. Cuicui, a 16-year-old panda, gave birth to the cub at the Wolong Shenshuping panda base at 9.39pm on August 5, breaking the previous birth weight […]