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China sentences mining tycoon to death
A Chinese court on Friday convicted a mining billionaire said to have links with former security tsar Zhou Yongkang of murder and sentenced him to death.
23 May 2014
China museum closed over fake exhibits
A Chinese museum has been ordered to close after thousands of its historical exhibits were found to be fake, state-run media said on Thursday.
23 May 2014
Shymkent Oil Refinery modernization to involve 890 foreigners
890 foreign experts will be involved in reconstruction and modernization of the Shymkent Oil Refinery in southern Kazakhstan.
22 May 2014
Microsoft to press China after Windows 8 ban
Microsoft said Tuesday it would maintain efforts to gain approval in China for its Windows 8 operating system after a ban announced by Beijing.
22 May 2014
Asia should create its own OSCE: Nazarbayev
Kazakhstan president Nursultan Nazarbayev addressed the Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia.
21 May 2014
China father beat daughter to death for copying
An 11-year-old girl in China was beaten to death by her father for copying a classmate's homework, state-run media said.
21 May 2014
China accuses US of 'hypocrisy' as hacking row escalates
Beijing summoned the US ambassador and accused Washington of double standards Tuesday over its unprecedented indictment of five Chinese military officers for cyber-espionage.
20 May 2014
Kazakhstan President Nazarbayev meets executives of major Chinese companies
President Nazarbayev is on a state visit to China and has already met Chinese President Xi Jinping. The two have launched construction of a Kazakhstan’s terminal at the Lianyungang seaport.
20 May 2014
Nazarbayev receives Silk Road award in China
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has been awarded the Silk Road Peace Prize during his official visit to China.
20 May 2014
China's Xi and Russia's Putin meet facing West's criticism
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday held talks with visiting Russian leader Vladimir Putin, as the two powers seek to build ties in the face of Western criticism and territorial disputes.
20 May 2014
Kazakhstan and Chinese Presidents launch construction of terminal in Lianyungang
By the end of 2015 the volume of export and transit cargoes is expected to reach 250 000 twenty-foot equivalent units, with the figure to be further doubled in the following five years.
19 May 2014
4,000 Chinese nationals await Vietnam evacuation
Thousands of Chinese nationals are awaiting evacuation from riot-hit Vietnam, state-run media said Monday, as Hanoi moved to stifle fresh protests over a territorial dispute between the two countries.
19 May 2014
Philippine, Vietnamese join anti-China street protest
Several hundred Filipino and Vietnamese protesters united in a march in the Philippine capital on Friday, demanding that China stop oil drilling in disputed South China Sea waters.
17 May 2014
Nursultan Nazarbayev to visit China
President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev will pay an official visit to China in the end of May.
16 May 2014
One dead, 100 hurt in anti-China riot in Vietnam
Anti-China riots at a steel plant in Vietnam left one Chinese worker dead and 100 injured, officials said Thursday, as unrest triggered by an escalating territorial dispute spreads across the communist country.
15 May 2014
China youth suicides blamed on education system: study
China's high-pressure, exam-driven education system is responsible for the vast majority of suicides by schoolchildren in the country, state media said Wednesday, citing a study.
14 May 2014
300 workers strike out at Western Europe - Western China highway
300 construction workers of the Western Europe-Western China highway project have gone on strike.
13 May 2014
American dog trainers bring detector dogs to Almaty, help Kazakhstan stop saiga horn trafficking to China
Almaty customs officers have got four detection dogs from Europe and America. The joint effort is called to help save the dwindling saiga antelope population in Kazakhstan.
13 May 2014
More than 200 held in China terror video crackdown
Police in China's Xinjiang region, home to mainly Muslim Uighurs, have arrested more than 200 people over six weeks for "dissemination of violent or terrorist videos", state media said Monday, amid a wave of train station attacks.
12 May 2014