NEW DELHI: In a significant diplomatic and digital move, India on Wednesday blocked the X accounts of China's state-run media outlets, Global Times and Xinhua News Agency, for spreading disinformation and Pakistani propaganda amid heightened tensions between India and Pakistan.

TAIPEI: Taiwan on Tuesday said that it spotted 31 Chinese aircraft (30 of which crossed the median line of the strait and entered the northern and southwest airspace), 7 Chinese warships, and one official ship, continuing to operate around the Taiwan Strait.

BEIJIJNG: China's teenage center Yang Hansen announced his decision to enter the NBA Draft 2025 on Saturday.

NEW DELHI: The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), along with the Survey of India (SoI), has directed US tech giant Google to remove the Chinese chat app ‘Ablo’ from its Play Store, as the app is not correct in its depiction of India’s territorial borders.

BEIJING: Forty Chinese nationals involved in illegal immigration were repatriated from Thailand on Thursday in a coordinated effort to combat cross-border crime and safeguard the legitimate rights of Chinese citizens, according to China's Ministry of Public Security (MPS).

SEOUL: The government said on Monday it has temporarily suspended the local service of Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) app DeepSeek over concerns about its data collection practices.

CHENNAI: World renowned action superstar Jackie Chan has wished for world peace even as he greeted all his fans around the globe and wished them a happy Chinese New Year of the Snake.

PHAGWARA: A fourteen years old boy sustained a major injury after a Chinese 'manjha' sliced his neck in Phillaur on Monday.

SEOUL: Lotte Duty Free, a major South Korean duty-free retailer, has suspended sales to Chinese resellers starting this year, becoming the first to do so in the local industry facing worsening profitability due to high commission fees, industry sources said on Sunday.

SEOUL: South Korean companies pointed to heated global competition amid China's cheap exports as a major source of concern for their businesses next year, which is feared to affect them more than US President-elect Donald Trump's tariff policies, a central bank report showed on Monday.

BEIJING: India's National Security Advisor Ajit Doval arrived here on Tuesday to hold talks with his Chinese counterpart and Foreign Minister Wang Yi as he takes part in the India-China Special Representatives' talks to be held on Wednesday, aimed at restoring the bilateral ties stalled for more than four years due to the military standoff in eastern Ladakh.

NEW YORK: An appeals court has cleared the way for shutting down TikTok in the US unless its Chinese owners sell it by January 19, upholding a law passed by Congress to safeguard national security.

SHANGHAI: Formula 1 has announced a five-year extension of the Chinese Grand Prix, ensuring the iconic Shanghai International Circuit will remain on the calendar through the 2030 season.

NEW DELHI: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday attached movable and immovable properties in India and Dubai valued at Rs.106.20 crore belonging to the accused, including Chinese-linked shell firms, involved in duping investors of hundreds of crores in the HPZ Token scam.

BEIJING: Debris from the recently launched Long March-7 Y9 carrier rocket fell back to Earth late on Sunday night, with the vast majority of the remnants burning up during the reentry process, the China Manned Space Agency said on Monday.

NEW DELHI: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will meet his Chinese counterpart Dong Jun on Wednesday in Vientiane, Laos.

BEIJING: The Shenzhou-18 crew consisting of three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth safely in the early morning on Monday, after completing a six-month mission at Tiangong space station.

SRINAGAR: Indian and Chinese troops on Thursday exchanged sweets at several border posts along the Line of Actual Control (LAC) in Ladakh on Diwali.

NEW DELHI: Chinese Prime Minister Li Qiang is believed to have raised Beijing's strong concerns over the security of its nationals in the country during his ongoing visit to Islamabad - the first by a Chinese premier to Pakistan in 11 years - for the 23rd SCO meeting of Heads of Governments (HOG) that kicks off on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on Friday met his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi here, and discussed the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Both leaders have agreed on diplomacy and dialogue to resolve the crisis.

CHANDIGARH: China based cyber threat group recently targeted Punjab state load dispatch center ( SLDC ) and 7 other state load dispatch centers but failed to disturb the power transmission system of the states.

NEW DELHI: Amazon is reportedly employing suppliers in China with links to forced labour of ethnic minorities from the Xinjiang region.

BEIJING: On behalf of the Chinese government, State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi will deliver on Monday, a video speech at the high-level segment of the UN Human Rights Council's 49th session, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Wang Wenbin, said.

NEW DELHI:East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), an Uyghur militant group closely collaborates with Al-Qaida, Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Jamaat Ansarullah to plan attacks on Chinese interests in Pakistan, Tajikistan and elsewhere, as per a UN report.

MUSCAT: Indian women began their debut campaign in the FIH Hockey Pro League 2021/22 with a resounding 7 – 1 win over China in the Sultan Qaboos Complex in Muscat, Oman. The Savita-led Indian side’s victory was sealed by goals from Sushila Chanu Pukhrambam (47’th, 52nd), Navneet Kaur (5th), Neha (12th’), Vandana Katariya (40’), Sharmila Devi (48’) and Gurjit Kaur (50th). Deng Xue scored the solitary goal for China in the 43rd minute.

NEW DELHI: Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan, Nong Rong met Pakistani army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa on Wednesday to discuss the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), work on which has all but stopped due to security issues and Pakistan's inability to pay Chinese companies.

NEW DELHI: After the Chinese Army reportedly abducted an Arunachal Pradesh teenager from the Indian territory where China had constructed 3-4 km road in 2018, the Congress has slammed the government for inaction in the entire episode.

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping has signed a mobilisation order for the training of the armed forces, the first order of the Central Military Commission (CMC) in 2022.

CHENNAI:Was there a Chinese hand in the recent women workers' protest at Foxconn Technology India Pvt Ltd factory in Tamil Nadu?It seems so, as per a report by The Week magazine quoting an intelligence report.

NEW DELHI: In the wake of the controversy over a video of Chinese PLA soldiers unfurling their national flag in Ladakh's Galwan Valley to celebrate New Year that went viral, army sources have clarified that the spot shown was not in the disputed area, which is a demilitarised zone as agreed in the series of talks following the June 2020 clashes.

NEW DELHI: With the Income Tax department conducting searches at several premises of Chinese mobile companies across the nation, smartphone brand OPPO said on Wednesday it will continue to cooperate with authorities as per procedure.

NEW DELHI:The Confederation of All India Traders on Thursday urged Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman to ban Chinese e-commerce company Shopee, which it claimed to be operating in India against FEMA Rules and FDI Press Note of 2020.

NEW DELHI/MOSCOW: Russia is on the verge of throwing out TikTok, the short-video making app owned by China-based ByteDance Ltd. The Russian government has launched homemade TikTok, called Yappy to cash on Tiktok's popularity. Currently, there are 70 million monthly TikTok users in Russia. Russian government which enjoys friendly relations with China, appears to be going slow over the imminent move to throw out TikTok because of its foreign connection. Russia fears that foreign technological companies can ruin the mindset of its people.

NEW DELHI:A Chinese firm, which was blacklisted in October by Pakistan's National Transmission and Despatch Company (NTDC), has sought similar action against five companies for submitting forged documents while participating in bidding for various projects, Dawn reported.

BENGALURU: Karnataka police have busted a racket allegedly run by Chinese nationals, who gave loans at exorbitant rates and harassed and humiliated the customers for 'violation' of laws, Joint Commissioner of Police (Crime), Sandeep Patil, said on Friday.

NEW DELHI: The US says it is "deeply concerned" about Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, who has not been heard from since making sexual assault allegations against a top Communist Party official, BBC reported.

NEW DELHI: "Cyberattacks from India disclosed" is the new propaganda by Chinese mouthpiece media as it claims that groups from India with possible intelligence background and state support constantly attacked defence and military units as well as state-owned enterprises in China, Nepal and Pakistan over the past few years, Global Times reported.

DOHA: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi held a meeting Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's Acting Deputy Prime Minister, in the Qatari capital of Doha, marking the first face-to-face talks between the two sides since the takeover of Afghanistan by the group.

NEW DELHI:Consumers should throw away their Chinese phones and avoid buying new ones, Lithuania's Defence Ministry has warned.A report by its National Cyber Security Centre tested 5G mobiles from Chinese manufacturers, BBC reported.

NEW DELHI: The Pakistan government is expected to make partial payments out of about $1.4 billion payables in a few days to assuage the concerns of the worried Chinese firms which have invested in independent power producers (IPPs) and other projects, the Dawn reported.

PATNA:  A team of Sashastra Seema Bal nabbed two persons, including a Chinese national, from the India-Nepal border in Kishanganj district of Bihar.

NEW DELHI:  The Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) on Monday recovered seven Chinese grenades from Bemina, four kilometre away from Srinagr's Lal Chowk.

NEW DELHI: A Law and Society Alliance report, through meticulous research and data collection, has managed to show that China has made significant inroads into numerous Indian sectors in the past few years.

TOKYO: Archer Rakesh Kumar's campaign in the Men's Individual Compound Open came to an end as he lost to China's Ai Xinliang in the quarterfinals at the Tokyo Paralympic Games on Tuesday.

QUETTA(Pakistan):At least two children were killed and several others were injured in a suspected suicide attack in the port city of Gwadar in Balochistan province on Friday, sources said.

DHAKA: Bangladesh has received another batch of Chinese Covid-19 vaccine doses shipped through the COVAX facility.
This is the first consignment among three scheduled to arrive from China this week, a health official said.

BEIJING: Experts from the World Health Organization (WHO), who investigated the origins of Covid-19 in Wuhan, must also extend their probe to labs in other countries as the virus may have jumped to humans outside China, said a Chinese scientist leading the country's WHO team.

GUWAHATI:Bharat Tibbat Sahyog Manch, an umbrella body of Indians supporting the Tibet Mukti Sadhana (Tibetan freedom movement) has
decided to observe forthcoming 20 October as a protest day against the Communist regime in Beijing as the People’s Liberation Army attacked
simultaneously on Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh (then North East Frontier Agency) on this date in 1962.

BEIJING:The virus strain behind the latest Covid-19 infection cluster in Nanjing, the capital city of China's Jiangsu province, has been identified as the highly infectious Delta variant, local authorities said on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: The great Indian tech startup story is being rewritten amid the Covid-19 pandemic as traditional sectors still bear the brunt.
With 16 unicorns (startups with a valuation of over $1 billion) and more than $11 billion in funding, chiefly from the US-based investment firms (till June-end), the year 2021 has proved that Chinese investment is no longer needed in a �self-reliant' India amid the new normal.

NEW DELHI: With the Taliban beginning to wield its influence in Pakistan, Chinese workers have started arming in order to protect themselves while carrying out maintenance works at various China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) projects in Pakistan, intelligence agencies stated.

BEIJING: China's Yunnan province reported five new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases and five imported ones amid an ongoing resurgence, the local health commission said on Monday.

BEIJING: Two Chinese astronauts have for the first time worked outside of the country's space station to install tools, the media reported. This is China's second spacewalk in the history of its space programme.

NEW DELHI: Chinese trawlers getting fishing right licenses in Gwadar has usurped Pakistani fishermen livelihood -- leading to huge demonstrations in the region and various other places, said top sources.

NEW DELHI: Nearly 45 per cent people -- both in rural and urban India – feel that Chinas encroachment in Ladakh is a failure on the part of the Central government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, as per the ABP-C Voter Modi 2.0 Report Card.

BEIJING: The Chinese mainland on Sunday reported 18 new Covid-19 cases, all of which were imported, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Monday.

BEIJING: The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 24 new Covid-19 cases, all of which were imported, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Friday.

KOLKATA: A Chinese national is on the docks for killing his colleague in Bangladesh's Sylhet town.
Bangladesh police says they have framed a chargesheet against Sun Xi, 48, holding him responsible for murder of his colleague Wen Wantao, 46, during a brawl at their residence on Tuesday.

BIJING: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said that he expects Beijing and Islamabad to take the opportunity of the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties to open up a brighter prospect for bilateral relations.

KOLKATA: China has started reaping rewards for backing the February 1 military takeover in Myammar.The military regime-controlled Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) this week approved 15 projects, including a Chinese $2.5-billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) power project, easily the biggest single investment since the new military takeover.

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka's Health Ministry has started administering the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine against Covid-19 to citizens, soon after the World Health Organization (WHO) approved it for emergency use worldwide.

NEW DELHI: The Department of Telecommunications (DoT) has permitted telecom service providers (TSPs), including Bharti Airtel, Reliance Jio Infocomm, Vodafone Idea, and MTNL, to conduct 5G trials.

MANILA: Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has received the first dose of China's Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine, his spokesperson Harry Roque said.

BEIJING:The Chinese mainland on Thursday reported 13 new Covid-19 cases, all of which were imported, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Friday.

BEIJING: The Chinese mainland on Wednesday reported 20 new COVID-19 cases, all of which were imported, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Thursday.

BEIJING: The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported 12 new Covid-19 cases, all of which were imported, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Wednesday.

BEIJING:The Chinese mainland on Monday reported 11 new Covid-19 cases, all of which were imported, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Tuesday.

NEW DELHI: The Congress on Sunday accused the Narendra Modi government of "surrendering" India's strategic interests to China and "woefully compromising" national security, citing reports that China has refused to pull back its troops from Hot Springs, Gogra and Depsang Plains during the last round of Corps Commander-level talks held on April 9.

BEIJING: The Chinese mainland on Saturday reported 16 new Covid-19 cases, all of which are imported, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Sunday.

DHAKA : At least five workers in a Chinese joint venture coal-fired power plant were killed in police firing in Banshkhali of Bangladesh's Chittagong region on Saturday, the police said.

NEW DELHI: Paying heed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to build a self-reliant India amid the new normal, Indian tech startups have begun to shun Chinese investment as Indian corporates and wealthy individuals, along with investors from other countries, are funding desi companies more than ever.

BEIJING: The Chinese mainland on Tuesday reported six new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases, the National Health Commission said on Wednesday.

BEIJING: At least 10 Covid-19 patients on Tuesday were discharged from hospitals following recovery in the Chinese mainland, the National Health Commission said on Wednesday.

NEW YORK: In a joint Trans-Atlantic operation, the US, Canada, Britain and the European Union have imposed sanctions against Chinese officials they say are responsible for the human rights abuses against the Uighur people and Beijing retaliated with counter-sanctions.

KOLKATA: Violence by pro-democracy protesters against Chinese properties are mounting in Myanmar and security forces are opening indiscriminate fire to check the attacks.
At least 38 protesters were killed on Sunday after two Chinese-financed factories were set on fire and a host of other Chinese properties attacked.

SAN FRANCISCO: In yet another big cyber-attack after SolarWinds, at least 30,000 organisations across the US, including government and commercial firms, have been hacked by China-based threat actors who used Microsoft's Exchange Server software to enter their networks.

NEW DELHI: Besides 10 organisations in the Indian power sector and two ports, Chinese state-sponsored hackers might also have targeted Indian Railways infrastructure, an expert with cyber intelligence company Recorded Future said on Thursday.

NEW YORK: A cyber intelligence company says it has found that hackers linked to China have infiltrated power systems and ports in India in a "show of force" and they have the ability to create disruptions.

MEXICO CITY: Mexican health authorities began to vaccinate older adults with a Covid-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac, after a shipment of doses arrived on February 20.

BEIJING: The Chinese mainland reported 10 new imported Covid-19 cases on Thursday, bringing the total number of imported cases to 4,913.Seven imported cases were newly reported in Shanghai, two in Tianjin and one in the province of Hunan, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Friday.

SAHARANPUR (UTTAR PRADEDSH): A 30-year-old man was suspected to have been electrocuted when the Chinese 'manjha' (string) of the kite he was flying touched a power line in Saharanpur district.

DAKAR: Senegal on Wednesday night received the first batch of China's Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine.

BEIJING: The Chinese mainland reported 11 new imported Covid-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the total number of imported cases to 4,903.

NEW DELHI: Indian Army teams armed with drones and cameras are monitoring evacuation and dismantlement of military infrastructure by Chinese troops at Pangong Lake in Eastern Ladakh.

MUMBAI: The upcoming war drama web series 1962: The War In The Hills offers a glimpse into the lives of the soldiers who stood rock solid against Chinese troops dedicating their lives for the security of the nation. A trailer of the 10-episode series was launched on Monday.

BEIJING: The Chinese mainland reported eight new imported Covid-19 cases on Sunday, bringing the total number of imported cases to 4,869, the National Health Commission said in its daily report on Monday.

NEW DELHI: With China's burgeoning ambition to meddle a finger into the tiniest of geopolitical crevices, one can never be sure what will be found washed-up in one's backyard with the ominous 'Made in China' tag. Last month, an Indonesian fisherman mistakenly netted an innocuous object off Masalembu. The object later turned out to be an 'Underwater Glider' of Chinese origin.

ISLAMABAD: The Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (Drap) has issued emergency use authorisation to the Covid-19 vaccine by Chinese company Cansino Biologics Inc, officials said, adding the supply of the doses will begin in a few weeks.

LONDON: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday sent his greetings in a video to people celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year this weekend, wishing them "a happy and prosperous" Year of the Ox.