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'Double criminality' became center of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou's trial

03:19 A lawyer for Huawei's Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou argued on Monday that "double criminality" was at the center of a trial to decide whether she can be ex

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Disney+: All the details of UK launch revealed

Star Wars spin-off series The Mandalorian, the new Lady And The Tramp and hundreds of classics will soon be coming to the UK.

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China's Chongqing releases plan to facilitate cross-border trade

Southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on Tuesday issued a plan with 16 measures to facilitate cross-border trade. The plan covers measures in the aspects of shortening the customs clearance time,

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China's car sales and production to reach 25 mln this year

China's car sales and production are likely to reach about 25 million units this year, flat or slightly down from last year, said an official with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technolo

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China's international journal Satellite Navigation launched

A new English publication offering scientific research in the field of satellite navigation has just been launched by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer Nature. The peer-reviewed academic

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China can maintain 6% growth in 2020 says ex-PBOC deputy governor

China will broadly be able to maintain its current growth rate through 2020, Zhu Min, chairman of the National Institute of Financial Research at Tsinghua University, said on Monday. IMF Deputy M

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Live broadcast of Chinese Spring Festival gala to hit theaters

The Chinese Spring Festival Gala will be broadcast live in theaters, the production company China Media Group said Monday. The gala, which usually lasts more than four

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World should recognize China's "tremendous progress" in poverty reduction, says WFP chief

The world should recognize China's "tremendous progress" in ending poverty and hunger in the last decade, David Beasley, executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), has said

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Wuhan tightens control of outbound travelers to curb virus spread

The Chinese city Wuhan has taken a string of measures to tighten the control and monitoring of outbound travelers in an effort to curb the spread of new coronavirus-re

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Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou's extradition hearings begin

00:34 A spokesperson for Chinese telecom giant Huaweiexpressed confidence in Canada's judicial system as the company's chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, attended a

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Berlin’s Home pulls in €11M Series A for its landlord and tenant solution

Home, the Berlin-based startup that set out offering an app to help landlords manage rentals but has since pivoted to solve the landlord-tenant problem more directly, has raised €11 million in Series

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Wang Qiang storms into second round at Australian Open

Wang Qiang of China in action during her Women's Singles first round match against Pauline Parmentier of France on day two of the 2020 Australian Open at Melbourne Park, January 21, 2020. The

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Wuhan boosts measures to curb new coronavirus spread

The central Chinese city of Wuhan is beefing up measures to curb the spread of the new coronavirus, which has infected 219 people on the mainland and was detected in Thailand, Japan and South Korea.T

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Trump, Greta and unicorns - What to watch for at Davos on Tuesday

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum kicked off on Tuesday in the Swiss ski resort of Davos.Here’s what to watch for on the opening day:Trump: As the impeachm

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Iran's FM not to attend Davos meeting: spokesman

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif will not attend the 2020 World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland this week, the Foreign Ministry Spokesm

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Spotlight: McConnell unveils draft schedule for Trump impeachment trial

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Monday proposed a draft resolution on schedules of the upcoming impeachment trial of President Donald Trump in the Republican-led upper chamber. Th

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New report reveals racial disparity among dementia patients in the UK

Asian and black people who have dementia are not receiving the same quality of health care benefits as their white counterparts in the UK, exposing them to severe forms of mental illness, accordin