As the Cricket World Cup gets underway Thursday, Indian authorities are on high alert as the possibility of terrorism has sparked fears among the hosts as well as the fans. According to reports in Indian media, terrorists have threatened to attack matches in the city, raising fears about the safety of players and fans. Security has been greatly increased in …

BEIJING: With this year’s super-long “golden week” spanning both the Mid-Autumn Festival and the National Day holidays in full swing, Chinese people are fervently hitting the road to make the most of this eight-day holiday period. On Sept. 29, the first day of the holiday period lasting until Oct. 6, China’s railways handled about 20.1 million passenger trips, setting a …

KIGALI: A newly revamped hospital, constructed by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC), was officially commissioned Tuesday in Burera District in northern Rwanda. The Butaro Level II Teaching Hospital, which was expanded from 150 beds to 256 beds, now features upgraded emergency, intensive care, imaging, and oncology facilities. The hospital catered to a population of almost 350,000 before the …

BEIJING: As the eight-day-long Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day holidays bring a new traveling craze, more and more Chinese tourists choose to embrace ecotourism via garden visits. Adorned with nearly 300 different species of chrysanthemums and hundreds of other colorful flowers, the National Botanical Garden of China in Beijing draws numerous photography enthusiasts, including Zhang Guangbin, a 70-year-old frequenter of …

BISHKEK: The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has opened up enormous development opportunities for Kyrgyzatan, a Kyrgyz official has said. Kyrgyzstan-China relations have been developing intensively in recent decades and today they are characterized as strategic, said Zhalyn Zheenaliev, deputy director of the National Investment Agency under the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, in a recent interview with Xinhua. “Over …

HANGZHOU: He Jie claimed China’s first men’s marathon title at the Hangzhou Asian Games here on Thursday. He clocked in at two hours 13 minutes and two seconds to claim the historic victory. DPR Korea’s Han Il Ryong finished 2:13:27 to grab silver and China’s Yang Shaohui took bronze with 2:13:39. The first 30km saw seven runners stay close, but …

SYDNEY: As an effective step in China’s push for a broader opening-up, the upcoming 6th China International Import Expo (CIIE) provides an excellent platform to promote brands and do business, said Wilton Yao, president of the Australia China Agribusiness Association. The CIIE allows governments and businesses from around the world to directly engage with China’s market development and changes, understand …

XICHANG: China on Thursday successfully launched a new remote sensing satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. A Long March-2D carrier rocket carrying the satellite Yaogan-39 lifted off at 8:24 a.m. (Beijing Time). The launch was the 490th mission undertaken by the Long March rocket series.

BEIJING: Assets under the management of China’s public offering funds totaled 28.71 trillion yuan (about 4 trillion U.S. dollars) by the end of August 2023, data from the Asset Management Association of China showed. By the end of August, a total of 11,111 public offering funds were being operated by 144 fund management companies, the association said. The scale of …

YINCHUAN: After attending the sixth China-Arab States Expo, which was held at the end of September in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, Zhang Hong’en headed straight for a local planting base in search of Juncao, a high-yield feed crop with the potential to diversify the diets of livestock in Mauritania. The Ningxia native said that the natural conditions in …

BANGKOK: Thailand will take steps to ensure safety and restore confidence among tourists, officials said on Wednesday, one day after a shooting at a renowned shopping mall in downtown Bangkok that killed two people and injured five others. The Thai government has attached great importance to this matter and will implement measures to prevent the recurrence of similar incidents, Prime …

BEIJING: China Development Bank (CDB), one of the country’s policy banks, issued loans totaling more than 340 billion yuan (about 47.36 billion U.S. dollars) for the urban infrastructure sector in the first nine months of this year, providing strong support for the construction, renovation and intelligent upgrading of urban municipal and public facilities. The CDB has integrated infrastructure, industrial facilities …

HANGZHOU: China’s athletes have demonstrated their patriotism, friendship, solidarity, and passion for sports at the Hangzhou Asian Games, said an official of the Chinese delegation. “As the Hangzhou Asiad coincides with China’s National Day, the outstanding performances of Chinese athletes in the Games has further aroused patriotism among the public and inspired people to pursue their own dreams,” Gao Chao, …

Exports of Pakistan’s textile sector continued to maintain a downward trajectory, clocking in at $1.35 billion in September compared to $1.53 billion recorded in the same month of the previous year for a year-on-year decline of 12%, showed provisional data released by the All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) on Wednesday. Data showed the country’s textile exports in the first …

Pakistan’s caretaker Minister of Energy, Power and Petroleum, Muhammad Ali has said that the country is seeking investments and technology partners from the Middle East to develop its energy sector. “We are looking for investments and technology partners from the Middle East, which has very advanced technologies and large players in this sector,” said Ali during an interview with UAE’s …

UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan raised the situation in Indian-held Jammu and Kashmir before the UN Decolonisation Committee, characterising India’s unilateral actions in the occupied territory as a modern-day colonial project. The UN body, which is also known as the ‘fourth committee’, began a general debate on freedom from foreign occupation at the UN headquarters in New York on Monday. Several member …

India’s external intelligence service is a feared foe in its neighbourhood: Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Nepal have all accused it of political meddling and involvement with outlawed groups that have perpetrated acts of violence. Now, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation last month that Indian government agents were involved in the June killing of Sikh separatist leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar …

First Pakistani Astronaut Namira Salim underwent a training session at New Mexico’s Spaceport America in preparation for her space journey. Speaking about her training, Namira shared that she learnt essential skills such as properly fitting spacesuit and operating parachute. Additionally, she and her fellow astronauts were educated on the functionality of seats in the spaceship, including how to fasten and unfasten …

An in-camera trial of charges framed under a 100-year-old law – Official Secrets Act – cannot be held, said ousted premier Imran Khan’s lawyer Salman Safdar on Wednesday, terming the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) request “unconstitutional”. He was speaking to the media while a special court conducted hearing of the case inside Adiala jail premises. The hearing was held amid …

Swiss Port Company has issued a letter to stop providing ground-handling services as national airline facing serious financial challenges. “Due to non-payment of dues, PIA flight operation to Canada services are being stopped from 3rd October at 5 pm,” the statement reads. The Swiss Port Company demanded $248,000 dollars should be paid immediately along with an advance of $100,000 dollars …

Babar Azam’s lead at the top of the ODI Batting Rankings continues to diminish with India star Shubman Gill making further inroads on the Pakistan skipper on the latest update. Gill has been in superb touch for India during the first two matches of their ODI series against Australia, with the in-form opener having amassed a total of 178 runs …

Pakistan has accelerated the process of geotagging and tracking illegal Afghan immigrants in the country, and a survey has also been issued for their return home. On Tuesday, caretaker Interior Minister Sarfaraz Bugti had said that Pakistan had given a deadline of November 1 to the foreigners living in the country illegally. His statement came after the national apex committee …

Indian film director/producer Karan Johar’s popular talk show, Koffee with Karan, is back with Season 8! A brand new season of Koffee with Karan will begin streaming on OTT platform Disney+ Hotstar from October 26. This was announced by the host Karan Johar on his official Instagram account alongwith a quirky video. He captioned the post as: “Turns out, my …

Renowned Pakistani fast bowler, Naseem Shah, has successfully undergone minor surgery on his shoulder tendon at a private hospital in London. The procedure, which lasted approximately half an hour, was carried out by a specialist surgeon in England’s capital. Following the operation, doctors remain optimistic about the swift recovery of the 21-year-old cricketer, citing his young age as an advantage. …

Ihsanullah, a rising Pakistan cricket talent who burst onto the international cricket scene with his fiery pace and impressive swing, had been sidelined by an elbow injury. His injury also came as a huge setback for Pakistan’s cricket team. Ihsanullah has been diagnosed with a stress-related elbow injury, which requires the use of a protective brace or “protector” to limit …

The Economic Committee (ECC) Coordination of the Cabinet on Tuesday approved the much-awaited Telecom Infrastructure Sharing Framework. The meeting presided over by Caretaker Finance Minister Dr Shamshad Akhtar considered a summary of the Ministry of Information Technology & Telecommunication for the approval of the first-ever Telecom Infrastructure Sharing Framework and approved it after detailed discussion. The committee also approved another …

ZHENGZHOU: One afternoon in late September, little Zhang Haofeng sat down with his school friends and read out a poem he had just written: “In the eyes of a bug, / Raindrops form seas, / Big and small, / Wherever they fall, / But me, too, / I see those seas.” It was a rainy day, the children sheltering inside …

MONROVIA: The Liberian government has declared that stringent security measures will be in place to ensure the safety and integrity of the democratic process during the forthcoming presidential election. Speaking to the media in the national capital of Monrovia Monday, Minister of Justice Frank Musa Dean warned citizens of the West African country against fomenting troubles during the election process. …

Most recently, President H.E. Kassym-Jomart Tokayev of Kazakhstan showcased a “holistic” and “comprehensive” New Economic Model (NEM) for achieving the desired goals of Just Kazakhstan. It is timely, “integrative”, “interactive” and “futuristic” covering all possible fundamental factors and sectors of a stable and sustainable macro-economy, progressive society and pragmatic political system in the country. It is indeed a new strategic …

BEIJING: Chinese researchers have developed a new method of separating and recovering dyes from wastewater containing organic dyes that utilizes hydrophilic-hydrophobic heterostructure particles (HL-HBPs), and their findings have great industrial and environmental application potential. A research team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry developed the new method and published their results in the journal …

DAMASCUS: Syrian officials have warned of the far-reaching consequences of U.S. military hegemony, stressing the need for a multipolar world. “The clear danger posed by this state to the world’s destiny and security becomes evident,” Iyad Wanous, general manager of the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) told xinhua, citing a recent report by Xinhua’s think tank that uncovered the damage …

TAIYUAN: A suffocation incident occurred on Tuesday in a corn processing mill in Xingping Village of Wutai County in north China’s Shanxi Province, resulting in seven deaths. Preliminary investigations found that the victims had died from carbon monoxide poisoning, according to local authorities. The incident started Tuesday evening when a person surnamed Shan entered the feeding pit of a drying …

BEIJING: China welcomes U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to lead a bipartisan delegation of senators to visit China, a Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday. The spokesperson made the remarks after Schumer announced that he will lead a bipartisan delegation of senators to China in the coming days. “We hope this visit will contribute to a more objective understanding …

BEIJING: China’s national observatory on Wednesday maintained the yellow alert for Typhoon Koinu, the 14th typhoon of this year. In a forecast early Wednesday, the National Meteorological Center said that Typhoon Koinu had weakened in intensity from a super typhoon to a severe typhoon as of Tuesday night, while adding that gales and rainstorms are expected to hit the country’s …

TAIYUAN: China’s coal-rich province of Shanxi extracted 7.16 billion cubic meters of coalbed methane in the first eight months of 2023, a record high for the January-August period, according to the provincial statistics bureau. Shanxi’s coalbed methane output accounted for about 81.8 percent of the country’s total in the first eight months this year. Utilizing coalbed methane, a byproduct of …

ANTWERP, Belgium: China secured the second highest score of 253.794 points to clinch the men’s team silver medal here on Tuesday at the FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Championships. As the defending world champions, China’s men’s team narrowly made it to the final, ending up in eighth place in a challenging qualification round. When the pressure mounted to win a medal, …

CHANGCHUN: Rows of enormous wind turbines, with their gleaming white towers reaching into the sky, form a striking contrast against the backdrop of open fields. The massive blades, each spanning the length of a commercial airliner, gracefully sweep through the air, harnessing the unseen currents that propel them. This is a wind farm located in the city of Baicheng in …

PHNOM PENH: More than 4.2 million vehicles had traveled on the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway in the first 11 months since its official opening to the public in November last year, a senior Cambodian official said on Tuesday. “From November 2022 to September 2023, the total traffic volume on the Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville Expressway was 4.24 million,” Heang Sotheayuth, spokesman and director …

The Lahore High Court on Tuesday directed the interim Punjab government to ensure that contact is established between incarcerated PTI leader Hassaan Niazi and his father within a fortnight. The order comes on a petition filed by Hassaan’s father, Hafeezullah Niazi, who petitioned the court to recover and allow a meeting with his son, who is in military custody. Hassaan, …

Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti on Tuesday announced a November 1 deadline for illegal immigrants in the country to leave Pakistan, otherwise, all law enforcement agencies would deport them. The interior minister was addressing a press conference in Islamabad and briefing the media on the details of the decisions taken during a meeting of the apex committee on the National …