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Lessons for Delhi? Beijing to ban polluting cars during smog alerts from 2017

China has adopted various measures over the years to reduce the blankets of smog which shroud many of the country’s northern cities in the winter, causing hazardous traffic conditions and disrupting daily life.

Doping Scandal: Ten Beijing Olympics medallists disqualified after re-testing

Ten more athletes, mostly weightlifters and wrestlers, have been stripped of the medals they won at the 2008 Beijing Olympics after failing doping tests in re-testing of samples, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) said on Thursday.

Indian banks in China not to accept scrapped bank notes

The Indian embassy in an advisory said the demonetised bank notes “cannot be deposited at branches of Indian banks located in China or Hong Kong”.

Fallen from the sky: Mysterious debris crash-lands in northern Myanmar

The large barrel-shaped object, 4.5 metres (15 foot) long and just over a metre in diameter, crashed onto property owned by a jade mining company in Kachin State’s Hpakant township on Thursday.

Beijing to wait and watch for Trump's policies amid uncertainty

President Xi Jinping led China in congratulating Donald Trump on becoming president-elect of the US against a backdrop of uncertainty about the future of bilateral relations already fraught with mistrust and competition.

Beijing air has improved rapidly, New Delhi could learn: Expert

The Chinese capital’s air quality has dramatically improved in the last couple of years and there are lessons that New Delhi could learn from how authorities in Beijing are tackling pollution, an expert from Greenpeace has said.

Beijing intervenes in HK politics, blocks lawmakers from taking office

China’s parliament has passed an interpretation of Hong Kong’s Basic Law that says lawmakers must swear allegiance to the city as part of China, Beijing’s most direct intervention in the territory’s legal and political system since the 1997 handover.

Lessons for Delhi? Beijing plans to build ventilation corridors as smog returns

Beijing plans to build ventilation corridors, or broad green passageways, to battle air pollution

Not every Chinese state media opinion piece reflects Beijing’s mind

An opinion piece in the usually hawkish state-run Global Times tabloid telling local companies to invest in China and not in India was widely picked up by the Indian media last month.

Delhi air pollution: Unlike Beijing, India unable to remove old cars from roads

According to a concept note prepared by the road ministry, the Voluntary Vehicle Fleet Modernisation policy proposed a reduction in excise duty of upto 50 % reduction to owners of vehicles, bought on or before March 31, 2005, that are over 11-year-old,...

NSA Doval holds talks with Chinese counterpart as Beijing delivers warning on L...

National security adviser (NSA) Ajit Doval had a high-level meeting with his Chinese counterpart Yang Jiechi in Hyderabad on Friday to thrash out issues concerning bilateral ties.

China says smog control efforts in several cities still inadequate

The Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) dispatched eight inspection teams to smog-prone northern Chinese cities earlier this week, and found that some were not doing enough to force polluters to toe the line, Xinhua said.

‘Yay, we’re beating Beijing’: Delhi residents tweet their air pollution woes

People tweeted photographs of smog-covered roads, complaining of “zero visibility”. Several people also reported that the air smelt of charred firecrackers and that it was difficult to breathe.

Chinese vessels leave disputed shoal: Philippine official

Chinese vessels have left the contested Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, a Philippine official said on Saturday, less than a week after President Rodrigo Duterte visited Beijing pledging closer ties.

Three London Games gold medallists disqualified for doping

On Arunachal Pradesh, New Delhi must tell Beijing to mind its own business

Peace along the India-China border is not being damaged by the visit by the American envoy to Tawang, but by the clandestine infiltration along the frontier by Chinese troops

Discipline, loyalty in focus as Communist leaders gather in Beijing

Some 400 senior leaders of the Communist Party of China (CPC), provincial chiefs, military officers and academics have gathered behind the thick walls of the Soviet-style Jingxi Hotel in Beijing for a crucial four-day meeting that could results in decisions...

US navy challenges China’s claims in South China Sea, Beijing cries foul

A US navy destroyer sailed near islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Friday, drawing a warning from Chinese warships to leave the area.

India’s boycott of our goods will fail to change trade ties: Chinese media

An ongoing call to boycott Chinese goods in India over diplomatic disputes will fizzle and fail to change the current nature of bilateral trade ties that is heavily tilted in Beijing’s favour, state media has argued.

Philippines’ prez Duterte says ‘goodbye’ to US ties in Beijing

Duterte is in China for a four-day trip that is expected to confirm his tilt away from Washington and towards Beijing’s sphere of influence.

Learn from selfless Xi Jinping, Chinese TV says in graft documentary

Officials are encouraged to follow the example of China’s president

Beijing issues month’s second ‘yellow alert’ for air pollution

Beijing issued the “yellow alert” for air pollution on Saturday for the second time this month as the Chinese capital remained blanketed by heavily-polluted haze, forcing city residents indoors.

Boycotting our goods will damage ties, China’s state media warns India

Protectionism against Chinese companies and boycotting Chinese goods on the pretext of political issues will not help bridge the yawning Sino-India trade deficit, instead only damage bilateral ties, state media said on Friday.

Beijing can build India’s economy better than West: Chinese scholar

Tibet infrastructure gives Beijing edge over India in Nepal: Chinese media

India and China are competing for influence over Nepal but superior infrastructure in Tibet that borders the land-locked country can give Beijing the edge, the nationalist Global Times said on Thursday.

Seoul protests to Beijing on sinking of coast guard ship

India turns the heat on China over emissions

Distancing itself from China for the first time in climate talks, India has decided to put pressure on Beijing to take the lead in phasing down use of Hydrofluorocarbons

Radwanska beats Konta to win China Open, her third title of season

Agnieszka Radwanska beat Johanna Konta in straight sets to take the title at the China Open on Sunday for her third crown of the season.

Antonio Guterres’ appointment unlikely to stir UN’s stagnant waters

Antonio Guterres as UN secretary-general proves that the worse the state of the world, the less willing the international community is to choose someone who could push them into finding solutions

China concerned about death of student from Beijing in US

The Chinese government expressed concern Tuesday about the death of a Syracuse University student from Beijing whose body was found behind an apartment complex near the campus.