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What's Xi Jinping Up To?

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist party, attended the opening session of the National People's Congress, his country's parliament, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing,......

6 Taiwan inmates commit suicide, ending 14-hour long hostage standoff

Police officers stand guard outside the Kaohsiung Prison in southern Taiwan where six inmates who held two prison staff hostage killed themselves early Thursday after a 14-hour standoff with......

China's next premier Li faces tough job of guiding economy

China's next Premier Li Keqiang, a protege of outgoing President Hu Jintao, is known as a cautious and pragmatic leader who is facing the arduous task of shepherding the world's second largest......

Hu's regime watches all

Sixteen years since the bloody crackdown on Tiananmen Square, China's grip on dissent has tightened under the leadership of President Hu Jintao, disappointing those who hoped he might represent a......

China defends its latest incursion into Ladakh's Chumar sector

Virtually defending the latest incursion by the People’s Liberation Army in the Chumar sector in Ladakh, China today said its troops were patrolling on its side of the Line of Actual Control......

Google it! Why Sundar Pichai missed Xi photo op

Google boss's absence at US-China internet forum meet raises eyebrows. The photograph below has some of the world’s powerful technology leaders in one frame. We would have said all of the......

How internet is adversely affecting 6% of the world's population

As many as 6 per cent people in the world are addicted to the internet which may be adversely affecting their lives, including their health and interpersonal relationships, according to a new......

China sets new world record with hybrid rice yield

Super Rice, the newly-developed hybrid rice breed by Chinese scientists, has set a new world record in output, officials said. The rice breed, DH2525, produced a harvest of 926.6 kg per mu (0.067......

Staff commits suicide at China's big electronic co

The woes of China's biggest foreign electronic firm, Foxconn, employing over 800,000 Chinese employees continued with one more young worker committing suicide taking the number of such deaths in......

No retirement age for Asia's billionaires

In his eight decades in the media business, Sir Run Run Shaw has built the Chinese-speaking world's most successful film and TV empire. He was co-founder of Shaw Brothers, the legendary movie......

'Together': A classy, sentimental drama

Veering from his historical dramas like the 1993 arthouse hit Farewell My Concubine and the little seen erotic thriller Killing Me Softly, master Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige offers a classy......

MAMI ends: A recap

The recently concluded 9th Mumbai Academy of Moving Images (MAMI) awards saw a massive turnout. Sponsored by Adlabs, the event was held at Imax Wadala, YB Chavan Centre and Fun Republic Andheri......

Satwik-Chirag enter Malaysia Open quarters

IMAGE: Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty. Photograph: Hamad I Mohammed/Reuters India's doubles pairing of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty advanced to the quarter-finals,......

Good day for Indian shuttlers at Malaysia Open

IMAGE: HS Prannoy advanced to the pre-quarterfinals. Photograph: Kind courtesy SAI Media/X India's number two shuttler HS Prannoy and rising shuttler Malvika Bansod advanced to the......

Lakshya Sen, other Indians shown door in Finland

IMAGE: India's Lakshya Sen went down fighting in the pre-quarterfinals of the Arctic Open on Thursday. Photograph: Kind courtesy Lakshya Sen/X Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen squandered a one-game......

Sathiyan-Batra, Harmeet-Sreeja storm into pre-quarters

Photograph: Kind Courtesy SAI Media/X India's G Sathiyan and Manika Batra stormed into the mixed doubles pre-quarterfinals of the table tennis competition in the Asian Games in Hangzhou on......

Asian Games: India's Schedule on September 27

Following is India's schedule at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, on Wednesday, September 27. IMAGE: India's boxer Shiva Thapa will be in action in the men's 63.5kg round of 16 bout on Wednesday.......

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