A high-profile Chinese human rights lawyer detained more than three years ago is facing trial Wednesday, the latest prominent detainee sent to court by the ruling Communist Party over the Christmas period. Wang Quanzhang was taken into custody in July…
China warns US against ‘weaponising’ space (Guardian)
China said Wednesday it opposed the “weaponisation” of space as it criticised US President Donald Trump’s orders to create a new command centre for controlling military space operations. “China has consistently proposed the peaceful usage of space, and opposes the…
Man gets lung infection after sniffing his own socks (Metro)
A man has ended up in hospital with a severe fungal infection in his lungs caused by sniffing his socks. The unnamed man from China would take a whiff every day at the end of work. As he was changing…
Man sentenced to death for crashing SUV into crowd (Punch)
A man in Central China received a death sentence for ramming his SUV into a crowd, killing 15 people in September, a state media reported on Wednesday. The man went further to stab some persons afterwards. Another 43 people were…
Apple phones still sold in China despite ban (Guardian)
pple stores in China continued with business as usual Tuesday despite a court-ordered ban on iPhone sales, but the US tech giant faces a growing nationalist backlash over the US-sought arrest of a Huawei executive. According to US chipmaker Qualcomm,…
‘I really was quite a nasty jerk,’ Jackie Chan reveals in new English memoir
Martial arts film star Jackie Chan has revealed his battles with alcohol and admitted to throwing his son across the room in a blunt autobiography published for the first time in English on Tuesday. In the book “Never Grow Up,”…
Crazy Rich Asians bombs at the box office in China on its opening weekend (Metro)
Crazy Rich Asians failed to make an impression on its opening weekend as it headed to the box office in China. The Hollywood film took the western world by storm, pulling in $25.3million (£9.8million) in the first weekend of its…
Trump says China agreed to reduce tariffs on US car imports (BBC)
Beijing will “reduce and remove” the 40% tariffs it places on US cars imported into China, US President Donald Trump has said. China has declined to confirm President Trump’s announcement, which he made on Twitter without providing details. The move,…
China mourns death of former women’s World Cup star at 43 (Vanguard)
Football communities in the US and China were on Monday mourning the death of former Chinese international Zhang Ouying who had been fighting cancer. She was 43. Zhang came agonisingly close with China to winning the 1999 World Cup final,…
Shenzhen Half Marathon: Traffic cameras catch cheats taking shortcut (BBC)
Almost 250 runners in a half marathon were caught cheating when traffic cameras captured them taking shortcuts through bushes. Organisers of the race in Shenzhen, China, also discovered 18 runners wearing fake bibs and three runners they described as “impostors”.…