Ahead of their meeting later in March 2013 on the sidelines of the BRICS summit in Durban, newly-installed Chinese Premier Li Keqiang spoke to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Friday and both expressed a desire to work together to boost bilateral ties. ...
04:15 AM, Mar 16, 2013
China's legislature elected Li Keqiang as premier on Friday, installing an English-speaking bureaucrat as the man in charge of the economy, the world's second-largest, and its aim of reviving growth through consumer-led expansion. The largely rubber-stamp National People's Congress, as expected, chose Li, 57, to replace Wen Jiabao. ...
09:49 AM, Mar 15, 2013
China's parliament formally elected heir-in-waiting Xi Jinping as the country's new president on Thursday, completing the country's second orderly political succession since the Communist Party took power in 1949. ...
10:20 AM, Mar 14, 2013
China's new leadership headed by Xi Jinping is all set to take over power to succeed outgoing President Hu Jintao and his team during the two-week annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC) which began here on Tuesday. ...
11:00 AM, Mar 05, 2013
China's new advisory legislative body began its annual session on Sunday commencing the once-in-a-decade power transfer to a new leadership headed by Xi Jinping from the outgoing government led by Hu Jintao. ...
10:10 AM, Mar 04, 2013
A secretive Chinese military unit, with government backing, is engaged in "systematic" cyber espionage and data theft against organisations around the world from Shanghai, an American Internet security firm has claimed. "Our research and observations indicate that the Communist Party of China (CPC) is tasking the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) to commit systematic cyber espionage and data theft against organisations around the world," alleged the report 'APT1: Exposing One...
02:00 PM, Feb 19, 2013
Phnom Penh: China's new leadership will accord great importance to relations with India, outgoing Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh during a meeting on Monday. Wen said he cherished working with Singh over the last eight years during which they met 14 times. The new Chinese leadership will give "great importance" to relations with India, Foreign Secretary Ranjan Mathai quoted Wen as saying. "We established good...
05:22 PM, Nov 19, 2012
Phnom Penh: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday invited Chinese investments in the infrastructure sector while conveying India's concerns over trade imbalance to his counterpart Wen Jiabao, who said this could be addressed "gradually". India and China will be holding the second Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) in Delhi later this month with an aim of enhancing business engagement between the two of the fastest growing economies, significantly at a time...
01:10 PM, Nov 19, 2012
The ASEAN Summit begins in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on Monday. Prime minister Manmohan Singh is expected to hold bilateral talks with China and Malaysia. ...
10:32 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Phnom Penh: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao on Monday shared the view that bilateral relations were in good state and endeavour was to make these "stronger, wider and deeper". Singh and Wen, who met here on the sidelines of ASEAN Summit, reviewed the ties during possibly their last meeting as the Chinese leader would be demitting office in March. In his opening remarks, Wen said...
10:30 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Phnom Penh: Trade and investment are expected to be major issues to figure in the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao here on Monday against the backdrop of India's concerns over growing imbalance in trade and lack of market access to Indian investments in certain sectors in China. During the meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit here, Singh is expected to seek...
09:54 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Phnom Penh: Trade and investment are expected to be major issues to figure in the meeting between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao in Phnom Penh on Monday against the backdrop of India's concerns over growing imbalance in trade and lack of market access to Indian investments in certain sectors in China. During the meeting on the sidelines of the ASEAN Summit, Singh is expected to...
04:27 AM, Nov 19, 2012
Beijing: A lengthy New York Times expose published on Friday claimed the family of Premier Wen Jiabao has amassed assets worth $2.7 billion through a web of investments, most of it accumulated after he rose to high office in 2002. Chinese censors swiftly blocked the Times' Chinese-language site that carried a translated version of the story, although Internet users with the technical knowledge could still access it by penetrating China's...
02:48 PM, Oct 26, 2012
Dharamshala: Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has criticised the Chinese government's censorship policy as morally wrong and said 1.3 billion people of China have a right to know the reality. "Totalitarian regimes like China's have for several decades depended far too much on cruelty, so fear and distrust are part of their atmosphere. This is why they try to conceal reality," the Nobel Peace laureate said. "The 1.3 billion...
11:41 PM, Jun 24, 2012
Beijing: Facing a host of territorial disputes with its neighbours, China on Monday said its 2.3 million-strong military's focus will be winning "local wars" using cyber as well as modern technology. "The most important thing is to win local wars under information-age conditions," Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao said in his work report presented to the National People's Congress on Monday highlighting Chinese military strategy which also underlined that the military...
07:22 PM, Mar 05, 2012
Beijing: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao cut his nation's 2012 growth target to an eight-year low of 7.5 per cent and made boosting consumer demand the year's first priority as Beijing looks to wean the economy off its reliance on external demand and foreign capital. He lowered the target from a longstanding annual goal of 8 percent, a move investors anticipated so that Beijing has some economic leeway to rebalance the...
03:40 PM, Mar 05, 2012
New Delhi: India and China on Tuesday agreed to set up a working mechanism on border management to deal with matters related to maintaining peace and tranquility in the frontier areas. The mechanism, mooted by Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao, was finalised at the conclusion of the 15th meeting of the Special Representatives (SR) on the boundary question " National Security Advisor Shivshankar Menon and Chinese State Councillor Dai Bingguo in...
07:20 PM, Jan 17, 2012
Beijing: China is set for "sweeping" leadership changes next year as President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao are due to retire, an official media report said without confirming the widely held view that Vice President Xi Jinping would succeed Hu. "Only the murkiest of crystal balls can't foresee that only China is certain to have a new President and Premier," state-run Global Times, which is also the official organ...
02:23 PM, Jan 09, 2012
New Delhi: India and China are set to hold the 15th round of boundary talks in New Delhi in mid-January after these were deferred following the Chinese objection to the Dalai Lama speaking at an international Buddhist conference in Delhi. The two sides are also expected to sign a landmark border mechanism to curb incidents of intrusion. Both sides are working on the dates, said government sources. India's special representative,...
06:04 PM, Dec 20, 2011
Bali: President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao conferred on Saturday in a surprise meeting on the sidelines of a major Asian summit, focusing on the economic matters that have prompted disputes between the two major world powers. The session was not a formally planned moment of diplomacy but rather a late add-on to let the two men continue their conversation from a group dinner the night before. "We...
02:27 PM, Nov 19, 2011
