China launched a communications satellite, "Zhongxing-11", at 0:06 a.m. Thursday (Beijing time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province.
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Monday met at the Pentagon with his Japanese counterpart Itsunori Onodera, discussing issues of regional security, including the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and the Diaoyu Islands, which are China's inherent territories.
China UnionPay, the dominant bank card organization in China which has been expanding internationally, took a further move to enhance its global presence as it launched the first card in the United States on Monday.
The arrival of the H7N9 bird flu has affected China's tourism industry, with tourists shunning wetlands and farms while restaurants eliminate chicken and duck from their menus.
The family of French luxury goods retailer Pinault announced Friday in Beijing that it will donate two pieces of looted Chinese cultural relics back to China.
China and France pledged Thursday to establish a sustainable partnership as French President Francois Hollande paid his first state visit to the Asian country.
China's top leaders on Thursday pointed out difficulties and challenges facing the country, saying macro policies should be stabilized and control over micro segments loosened with better social security measures.
A Thai diplomat based in Hong Kong urged the countries involving the South China Sea territorial disputes to look into the big picture of the all-important ASEAN-China relations in an interview with the APD.
The Red Cross Society of China (RCSC) will subject itself to a renewed investigation into the case that landed the charity in a trust crisis two years ago, the RCSC social supervision committee announced Wednesday.
After years of cultivation, ASEAN is now one of the most highlighted emerging markets in the world. Charles Li, Associate Professor at the City University of Hong Kong, told the Asia Pacific Daily that ever since the transformation from a political unity to an economic organization, ASEAN's economy has been flying high, thanks to its close relationship with China and the developed world.
A fleet of Chinese marine surveillance vessels has driven Japanese fishing boats out of waters surrounding the Diaoyu Islands, the State Oceanic Administration said Tuesday.
China's external financial assets expanded 9 percent to reach 5.17 trillion U.S. dollars by the end of 2012, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange said Monday.
Even though the fast spread of avian influenza has so far only hit Shanghai, Beijing and the provinces of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui and Henan, the ensuing fear has reached nationwide. The outbreak since earlier this month has given China's poultry industry its hardest hit in a decade.
Despite repeated strong opposition from China, a group of 168 Japanese lawmakers on Tuesday visited the controversial war-link Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, which honors Japanese war criminals of World War II.
China's economic growth in the first quarter of the year is at a reasonable level and the country will maintain its macro-economic policies, the central bank said Sunday in a statement.
China will observe a UN resolution on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), a Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
On Tuesday, China issued a military white paper, disclosing, for the first time, how the forces of the People's Liberation Army are formed... And how China' vast armed forces are to be used.
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