Enoch YiuPublished: 12:25am, 31 Dec 2025Updated: 12:29am, 31 Dec 2025Mainland China will cut or waive value-added tax (VAT) on the resale of homes by individuals from Friday, in its latest move to shore up a property market that has been stuck in a prolonged slump. Under the new rules, individuals »»»

BEIJING, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) -- Despite the winter chill outside, the atmosphere inside the memory care unit at Taikang Community Yan Garden, a senior residential community in Beijing's northern suburbs, remains lively as the year draws to a close. Veteran senior care specialist Li Qinggang could rece»»»

TOKYO – A senior government official who advises Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on security expressed a personal opinion that Japan should have nuclear weapons, according to local media reports. The official added that there was no discussion within the government on that possibility and ac»»»

BEIJING, Dec 12 — Jiang Hui remembers his mother waving him goodbye as she left for her Malaysia Airlines flight, a bag slung across her shoulder and promising to return with souvenirs from her trip. Jiang Cuiyun, then a 72-year-old retiree, was one of 239 people aboard flight MH370 when it vanishe»»»

Add TNIE As A Trusted Source BEIJING: A Beijing court has ruled that Malaysia Airlines must pay 2.9 million yuan ($410,000) each to the families of eight passengers who went missing in the mysterious disappearance of the MH370 flight »»»

A court in Beijing delivered the first-instance judgment on Monday on the compensation claims lawsuits filed by some families of the missing passengers of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 — awarding eight families 2.9 million yuan ($409,813) each in damages. The disappearance of MH370 occurred on Mar»»»

Chinese tourists are the largest source of visitors to Japan, with almost 7.5 million visiting in the first nine months of 2025. (EPA Images pic) BEIJING: Around 500,000 air tickets to Japan are thought to have been cancelled by Chinese passengers, an aviation analyst told AFP Tuesday, after Beijin»»»

Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is escorted into a hall by monks holding his hands at his Himalayan residence in Dharamshala, India, Dec. 20, 2024. Reuters-Yonhap China hopes the Dalai Lama can "return to the right path," and is open to discussions about his future as long as certain cond»»»