China on Thursday sent three astronauts to its permanent space station Tiangong to replace the crew stationed there since last October. The Shenzhou-20 spaceship took off at 5:17 p.m. local time (0917 GMT) from Gobi Desert in northwestern China, according to state media. The crew currently aboard T»»»

Jiuquan, China: A Chinese rocket carrying three astronauts to the country's space station blasted off from its remote launch site Thursday, the latest milestone in Beijing's race to become a leading celestial power. Beijing has pumped billions of dollars into its space programme in recent years in »»»

BEIJING, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Peng Liyuan, wife of Chinese President Xi Jinping, chatted over tea with Rachel Ruto, wife of Kenyan President William Ruto, in Beijing on Thursday. Hailing the longstanding friendship between China and Kenya, Peng said the two countries have had good cooperation in ed»»»

China is preparing to launch the Shenzhou-20 mission this week, sending three astronauts to the Tiangong space station for a six-month stay. This mission is a crucial step in China's ambitious plan to land astronauts on the Moon by 2030 and eventually establish a lunar base. Representative imageChi»»»

DHAKA: Bangladesh chief adviser Muhammad Yunus has urged Beijing to extend its economic influence to Bangladesh, controversially mentioning that India's northeastern states being landlocked could prove to be an opportunity.The remark, apparently made during Yunus' recent four-day visit to China, su»»»

Xi told Yunus on Friday that Beijing was “willing to work with Bangladesh to push bilateral cooperation to a new level.” Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday vowed to strengthen bilateral relations with Bangladesh as Dhaka continues to navigate rising frosty ties with neighbouring India. This ref»»»

Iron ore miner Vale, a Chinese commercial partner since the 1970s, is welcome, along with other Brazilian firms, to further expand economic links with China, its commerce ministry said. The comments came as chief executives of foreign firms gathered in Beijing this week for a key annual corporate f»»»

DHAKA: Bangladeshi leader Muhammad Yunus will travel to Beijing on a diplomatic goodwill visit this month as frosty relations with neighboring India spur his caretaker administration to court new friends. The Nobel Peace laureate took charge of Bangladesh last August after the ouster of autocratic »»»

Dhaka [Bangladesh], March 16 (ANI): Bangladesh Chief Adviser Muhammad Yunus is expected to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on March 28. The two countries will issue a joint statement after the meeting, the Chief Adviser's Press Wing said in a statement on Tuesday.The statement came after the Chin»»»

Longi, the largest solar panel manufacturer in the world, has decided to set up an office and invest in solar panel manufacturing in Bangladesh, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen said on Sunday. The Ambassador said several top Chinese solar panel manufacturers visited Bangladesh in December »»»

SEOUL — A Chinese military helicopter flew within 10 feet (3 meters) of a Philippine patrol plane over the South China Sea on Tuesday, in what observers said was the second incident of potentially catastrophic behavior by the People’s Liberation Army against foreign aircraft in a week.Tuesday’s inc»»»

— A Chinese military helicopter flew within 10 feet (3 meters) of a Philippine patrol plane over the South China Sea on Tuesday, in what observers said was the second incident of potentially catastrophic behavior by the People’s Liberation Army against foreign aircraft in a week. Tuesday’s incident»»»

On Monday, two parallel visions of Chinese activism appeared on X. One was a video showing a small protest outside a school in western Sichuan province. The other, from a related account, was a post promoting a memecoin and something it called the “$Li vision”, adding that “some of the greatest coi»»»

Beijing (TDI): Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Wednesday that China will actively support Sri Lanka in focusing on economic development and the two countries should jointly foster new highlights in high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, as well as cooperation in modern agriculture, digital ec»»»