China, Japan call for better ties

The foreign ministers of China and Japan on Monday called for better relations between the Asian neighbours, who have repeatedly quarrelled over disputed maritime territories. Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his Japanese counterpart Takeaki…

Bound copies of Hu’s speech fly off shelves

Copies of a speech made by China’s top leader Hu Jintao on the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) have been popular, according to booksellers on Sunday. More than 100 copies sold…

Hong Kong: Fifty years no change

Hong Kong is living proof that “one country two systems” has worked. It has also lived up to the promise that it will keep dancing, keep going to the races and keep the stock market…

Japan FM visits Beijing

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeaki Matsumoto arrived in Beijing on Sunday to meet with his Chinese counterpart, Yang Jiechi, shortly after China renewed warnings to Japan to stop violating its sovereignty in the East China Sea….

‘Discriminatory’ govt procurement rules scrapped

  BEIJING – Three key rules on indigenous innovation for government procurement, which have come under fire from foreign companies for being discriminatory, were scrapped on Friday. Experts said the move, praised by foreign firms…

CPC’s laudable helmsmanship

The bloody decimation of the “Shanghai massacre of 1927” by Kuomintang reactionaries nearly strangled it in the cradle; The ensuing “white terror” and smothering enemy sieges brewed suspicion in its own ranks over how long…

Naval drills ‘not linked to sea disputes’

BEIJING – Recent Chinese naval exercises were routine and had nothing to do with the situation in the South China Sea, a spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense said on Wednesday. “We have noted…

Hu calls for dialogue between Sudanese parties

President Hu Jintao welcomes his Sudanese counterpart Omar al-Bashir at a ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Wednesday, June 29, 2011. [China Daily] BEIJING – China said on Wednesday that…