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Chinese man accepts 15 pancakes as compensation after cart scratches his SUV

A man in China forgave a breakfast cart owner for scratching his luxury car, accepting 15 egg pancakes as compensation.
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Published on Apr 13, 2025 01:37 pm IST

Chinese shop owner unknowingly rewards strangers who saved his injured son

A China noodle shop owner unknowingly rewarded travellers who helped a crash victim, later realising the injured man was his own son.
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Published on Mar 17, 2025 12:41 pm IST

Chinese mistress sues wife who refused to divorce husband

A Chinese mistress sued her lover's wife after she refused to grant divorce
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Published on Dec 16, 2024 10:08 am IST

Chinese woman delays flight by refusing to put Louis Vuitton bag under seat

A Chinese woman refused to store her Louis Vuitton bag on the floor of the airplane (Representational image)
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Updated on Aug 16, 2024 08:43 am IST

Jack Ma becomes university teacher after Alibaba rout

Jack Ma, billionaire founder of Alibaba Group,
world news
Published on Apr 21, 2023 09:03 pm IST

Covid-19 pushed India to be a force for good on the global stage: Indian envoy to China

Indian envoy to China Vikram Misri said the world needed more trusted and capable players and India believes it can play the role.
world news
Updated on Jan 05, 2021 02:41 pm IST

China set to implement controversial security law in HK, likely to escalate protest

The city has seen violent protests since last June on that very issue
world news
Updated on May 21, 2020 09:32 pm IST

Xi warns coronavirus yet to peak amidst its spread to Chinese prisons; Death toll over 2,200

The deadly coronavirus, which has brought the world’s second largest economy to a standstill, has not yet peaked, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned the ruling Communist party officials
world news
Updated on Feb 21, 2020 11:47 pm IST

China’s first tryst with outbreak lockdown, masks was about 110 years ago

A policeman wearing a face mask takes a tourist's temperature at the Qinhuai scenic zone in Nanjing in eastern China's Jiangsu province. The virus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan, already on lockdown, has banned most vehicles downtown.
world news
Published on Jan 27, 2020 07:22 pm IST

Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to announce withdrawal of controversial extradition bill

Demonstrators gather during a strike rally at Tamar Park in the Admiralty district of Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2019. Hong Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam said she never asked China for permission to resign over the historic unrest rocking the city, while acknowledging that she discussed her struggles in a closed-door meeting. Photographer: Kyle Lam/Bloomberg
world news
Updated on Sept 04, 2019 12:52 pm IST

$1.5 billion luxury homes sale put on hold amid Hong Kong unrest

CK Asset’s decision to put off the sale adds to signs of economic stress in the city more than two months after protests started against a proposed extradition bill, then turned into violent anti-Beijing protests.
business
Updated on Aug 14, 2019 10:31 am IST

Tale of two cities: Hong Kong turmoil may boost Singapore

Hong Kong’s reputation as a stable financial hub has been shaken by a controversial extradition bill that prompted massive protests, and its loss might just be Singapore’s gain, experts say.
business
Updated on Jun 20, 2019 04:06 pm IST

World War I grenade found in French potato shipment in Hong Kong, detonated

TOPSHOT - This handout photograph taken on February 2, 2019 and released February 3 by the Hong Kong Police Force shows World War I-era German hand grenade that was found among a shipment of French potatoes bound for a potato chips factory, in Hong Kong. - A German World War I hand grenade was found among a shipment of French potatoes imported for a Hong Kong crisp factory, police said. The grenade is believed to have been left in a trench during World War I and accidentally gathered up with potatoes planted a century later in the former battlefield..
world news
Updated on Feb 03, 2019 05:48 pm IST

S Korean fashion firm under fire for selling ‘nuke masks’ featuring Kim Jong-un

A South Korean fashion and cosmetics firm has stirred controversy with a facial mask featuring Kim Jong-un prompting many stores to pull the product of the shelves.
world news
Updated on Dec 14, 2018 09:14 am IST

Five dead, 31 injured in Hong Kong coach crash: police

In this photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, first responders work at the site of an accident after a coach hit the wall of the Qinling Mountains No. 1 Tunnel on the Jingkun Expressway in Ningshan County, northwestern China's Shaanxi Province in August 2017.
world news
Updated on Nov 30, 2018 07:18 am IST

Teen driver Sophia Floersch fractures spine in Macau Grand Prix horror crash

Van Amersfoort Racing’s Sophia Floersch suffered a fractured spine.
others
Updated on Nov 19, 2018 01:57 pm IST

Alibaba Singles’ Day smashes $25 bln sales record in under 16 hours

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd smashed the 2017 record on Sunday, surpassing 168 billion yuan ($24.15 billion) sales in under sixteen hours.
business
Updated on Nov 11, 2018 06:42 pm IST

China handpicks 31 high school students to develop AI weapons systems

The Chinese government has for the first time recruited 31 high school students to take part in an experimental Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven programme to develop intelligent weapons systems at the elite Beijing Institute of Technology (BIT).
world news
Updated on Nov 09, 2018 01:01 pm IST

Jack Ma to unveil succession plans, not retirement, says paper owned by Alibaba

Alibaba founder Jack Ma gestures as he arrives for a meeting in Bangkok.
business
Updated on Sept 09, 2018 10:14 am IST

Anaesthetist in Hong Kong killed his wife, daughter with gas-filled yoga ball: Prosecuters

The anaesthetist’s wife and 16-year-old daughter were found on a roadside in a locked yellow Mini Cooper in 2015.
world news
Updated on Aug 23, 2018 11:17 am IST

Reports of India’s plan to print currency in China ‘totally baseless’, says Centre

The Aam Aadmi Party said that in the light of recent hostilities between the two Asian nations, contracting a Chinese company to print Indian currency could lead to some “serious strategic disadvantages”.
india news
Updated on Aug 14, 2018 01:53 am IST

President Xi calls China vaccine scandal ‘hideous, appalling’, orders probe

A child cries while receiving a vaccine shot at a health station in Hefei in central China's Anhui province recently.
world news
Updated on Jul 24, 2018 12:44 pm IST

BMW car goes up in smoke after owner lights up incense sticks to ‘please God’

Photographs of the car taken after the incident show the BMW reduced to a smoldering piece of metal, well beyond repair.
world news
Updated on Jun 14, 2018 09:31 pm IST

Chinese farms rearing cockroaches to cure stomach diseases and treat compost waste

world news
Published on Jun 03, 2018 08:14 pm IST

China lands long-range bombers on South China Sea island for first time

In this undated file photo released by Xinhua News Agency, a Chinese H-6K bomber patrols the islands and reefs in the South China Sea.
world news
Updated on May 19, 2018 03:10 pm IST

The big #MeToo dilemma in India and China is who you gonna call

Human resource departments may have something to do with women not reporting bad behaviour in Asian companies.
editorials
Updated on Apr 30, 2018 10:53 am IST

Modi, Xi may set aside diplomatic template to meet in China before SCO summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping at a meeting.
india news
Updated on Apr 16, 2018 04:55 pm IST

Doklam belongs to China, there’s nothing like changing status quo: Beijing on envoy Bambawale’s comment

A Chinese soldier gestures to an Indian soldier at a border crossing between India and China. India’s envoy Gautam Bambawale in an interview to Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post had blamed China for the stand-off in Doklam saying it happened because Beijing tried to alter the “status quo” which it should not have.
india news
Updated on Mar 26, 2018 06:34 pm IST
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