A Chinese father has been reunited with his daughter after looking for her for 24 years. Wang Mingqing’s tireless search included becoming a taxi driver in Chengdu city, in the hope he might one day pick her up as a passenger. His daughter made contact with him earlier this year after coming across an online … Read more
Chinese authorities say they are investigating a top politician once seen as a candidate for the highest ranks of the leadership. Sun Zhengcai was the Communist Party chief of a major metropolis, Chongqing. Before his abrupt removal from office earlier this month, he was a strong contender to rise to the elite seven-member committee that … Read more
Flooding in China’s northeast has left 18 dead and 18 missing, state media said Monday, after the latest deadly deluge to hit the country this summer. The central and eastern parts of Jilin province were hit by driving rain Thursday and Friday, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. More than 110,000 were forced to … Read more
China’s most famous political prisoner, the Nobel laureate and democracy icon Liu Xiaobo, has died at the age of 61. The Chinese intellectual and activist, who championed non-violent resistance as a way of overcoming “forceful tyranny”, is the first Nobel peace prize winner to die in custody since German pacifist Carl von Ossietzky, the 1935 recipient, who died under … Read more
A nursery school girl was suffocated to death by her teacher, who taped her mouth shut for being too talkative. According to a report by the Daily Mirror, the victim Guo Jintong was talking too much while the class did aerobic exercises in the morning. A witness said that the teacher stuck tape on the … Read more
A Chinese think tank delegation on Sunday paid a visit to Kimberly farm in Iowa State, whose name became popular among Chinese people after hosting the then Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping in 2012, with the aim to remove the obstacles to the development of Sino-US agricultural cooperation. Headed by Wei Jianguo, who was a … Read more
Blessed by palm-fringed beaches and balmy weather, the island province of Hainan is fast becoming known as “China’s Florida,” drawing masses of retirees fleeing the biting cold of their hometowns. “At home in Harbin, it (can be) -30 degrees (-22 Fahrenheit), it’s unbearable! But here the climate is perfect,” said a 71-year-old pensioner who gave … Read more
Dozens of people holding Chairman Mao posters protested in China’s Jilin province on Sunday, calling for a boycott of South Korean goods as part of a backlash against the country’s Lotte Group. The retail giant has faced growing opposition in China since signing a deal to provide land for a US missile-defence system Tuesday. The … Read more
South Korea’s Lotte Group faces an escalating backlash in China after providing land for a US missile-defence system, amid growing concern that the row will mushroom into wider Chinese retaliation against Seoul. South Korea’s fifth-largest company, Lotte signed a deal Tuesday to provide land for the US system, which was prompted by threats from North … Read more
China’s northeastern region is showing signs of economic recovery since the traditional heavy industries lost shine, figures released at the annual provincial sessions show. By seeking new growth engines in services, high-tech manufacturing and other sectors, the economy of Jilin Province expanded 6.9 percent last year, exceeding the national average for the first time since … Read more
A graft fugitive who had been on the run for 15 years returned to China Saturday to turn himself in, according to the Communist Party of China’s disciplinary watchdog. Yan Yongming, 47, who was the former chairman of the pharmaceutical company Tonghua Golden-horse in northeast China’s Jilin Province, had been hiding in Australia and New … Read more
Dozens of miners are confirmed dead after a gas explosion at a coal mine in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, according to state-run news agency Xinhua. The explosion happened at about 11:30 a.m. Monday (11.30 p.m. Sunday ET) at the privately-owned Jinshangou Coal Mine in Laisu town in Chongqing’s Yongchuan district, Xinhua reported. In … Read more