The move comes on the eve of Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra's four-day trip to Beijing, where she is scheduled to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday. Liu Zhongyi, China's vice ...

China has logged a more than 200 per cent increase in inbound travel bookings for this year’s Lunar New Year period, driven mainly by its expanding visa-waiver scheme, according to official data ...

Withdrawing this aid creates a “power vacuum” and offers a “great gift” to China, Goodman said. The country’s influence in the Global South has been growing for years. In part ...

Hong Kong’s Kai Tak Stadium will officially open on March 1, the government has revealed, as the venue hosted about 50,000 people as part of a stress test on Tuesday night. Secretary for Culture ...

China’s Lunar Holiday travel boom: Why locals are skipping flights for road and rail!(Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) Chinese train travel hit new records over the holiday as families flocked to ...

The New York-based nonprofit group documented severe travel restrictions on Uyghur citizens. Its report said that although Beijing had started allowing some Uyghurs to apply for passports ...

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The seismic activity rattling Santorini and other Greek islands is not over and the biggest quake yet could be still to come, a seismologist has warned. Rémy Bossu, Secretary-General of the ...

Mikel Arteta has described Kai Havertz as a genetic "powerhouse" and backed the Germany international to compensate for Arsenal's failure to sign a forward in January. The Gunners made no secret ...

4 Feb - Barbie Hsu's former mother-in-law Zhang Lan recently took to social media to express her sadness over the actress' passing. On 3 February, the businesswoman, who was blasted by netizens for ...