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The number of web users in China has risen over 700 million.

• 03 августа 2016, 16:38

Hundreds of employees at China's top statistics bureau are being investigated after selling data.

• 28 апреля 2016, 17:40

Kazakhstani athlete Olga Rypakova has won the bronze medal in Women’s Triple Jump at the World Championship in Beijing.

• 25 августа 2015, 21:31

Chinese Beijing has won the bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games from Kazakhstan's Almaty.

• 31 июля 2015, 21:53

Kazakhstani volleyball player Sabina Altynbekova and the bronze medalist of the Sochi Olympics Denis Ten are joining the distinguished Kazakhstani athletes representing Almaty’s bid for the Winter Olympic Games in 2022.

• 30 июля 2015, 17:19

Kazakhstan says it has enough money to host the Winter Olympics 2022.

• 10 июня 2015, 17:00

Kazakhstan has introduced 8 changes to its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Almaty.

• 09 марта 2015, 14:17

Nursultan Nazarbayev has discussed the feasibility of hosting the 2022 Winter Olympic Games in Almaty during Q&A session with media representatives.

• 22 декабря 2014, 17:39

Vice-Minister of Culture and Sports of Kazakhstan said that Kazakhstan was planning to use a mixed model of financial management should it be granted the right to host the Winter Olympic Games in 2022.

• 19 октября 2014, 13:50

Kazakhstani expert Nurlan Nurov talks about the possibility of Kazakhstan hosting the Olympics 2022 and the financial aspect of the endeavour.

• 13 октября 2014, 20:01

Norwegian Oslo has withdrawn its bid to host 2022 Winter Olympics leaving Kazakhstan's Almaty and Chinese Beijing as the only contenders in the race.

• 04 октября 2014, 14:36

Kazakhstan’s Defence Minister Serik Akhmetov has met with his Chinese counterpart Chang Wanquan in Beijing during his official visit to China.

• 25 сентября 2014, 16:02

Only three cities remain in the bidding to host the 2022 Winter Olympics after Lviv withdrew from the competition.

• 02 июля 2014, 12:34

Polish Krakow has withdrawn its bid to host the 2022 Winter Olympic Games after a referendum held this weekend.

• 28 мая 2014, 18:41

A group of gay and lesbian activists staged a Valentine's Day kissing protest in Beijing Friday aimed at highlighting Russia's controversial anti-homosexuality laws.

• 14 февраля 2014, 13:14

Near Beijing's $600 million Olympic stadium, migrant worker Ye Yiwen, her husband and two children cram into a tiny underground room, sheltering from the Chinese capital's biting winter and soaring property prices.

• 22 января 2014, 12:56

The diplomatic bickering between Japan and China has descended into name-calling in the British press, with claim and counter-claim by the countries' ambassadors invoking the fictional evil wizard of the Harry Potter series, Lord Voldemort.

• 06 января 2014, 13:51

Local officials in a Beijing suburb have built themselves a white-walled, gold-domed office complex resembling Moscow's Kremlin, state media reported, prompting anger among Chinese who condemned the lavish buildings.

• 25 декабря 2013, 12:09

China's Communist Party leaders this week emerged from a closed-door meeting in Beijing bearing a raft of promises on issues from the controversial one-child policy to the scope of the death penalty.

• 17 ноября 2013, 17:24

Taiwan signed a free trade deal with Singapore on Thursday, its first with a Southeast Asian country, as the diplomatically isolated island steps up efforts to join regional economic blocs.

• 07 ноября 2013, 18:00