Hosts China swept aside Malaysia 3-0 in the Sudirman Cup quarterfinals here on Friday, securing a spot in the last-four stage of the world badminton mixed-team championship.
Defending champion China handed Thailand a 4-1 defeat to surge to the top spot in Group A and make it to the knockout stages of the Sudirman Cup mixed team badminton competition here on Wednesday evening.
At least four people were killed and 516 others injured on Saturday after a massive explosion rocked Shahid Rajaee Port in the city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran's Hormozgan province, local media reported.
The re-election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States has once again thrown global geopolitics into flux.
The Higher Buddhist Institute of the Tibetan Department in Beijing was initiated by the late 10th Panchen Lama and President of the Buddhist Association of China (BAC), Zhao Puchu, with the approval of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, on September 1, 1987 in Xihuang Monastery in Beijing. The 10th Panchen Lama personally served as the first President, and Zhao Puchu, then President of the BAC, was the Senior Advisor.
Young Indian shuttler Lakshya Sen faced a setback in the first round, succumbing to a straight-game defeat at the hands of China's Weng Hong Yang in the season-opening match of the Malaysia Open.
China has detained a foreign national who was the head of an overseas consulting firm for allegedly spying on behalf of the United Kingdom
Xi Jinping in his annual New Year’s Day address stated, “China will surely be reunified, and all Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait should be bound by a common sense of purpose.”
Repaying Chinese loans is not easy because unlike other official lenders such as the World Bank that provide finance at concessional, below-market interest rates, and longer tenures, China tends to lend at market terms, at interest rates close to those prevailing in private capital markets. Additionally, the Chinese insist on collateral, meaning that debt repayments are secured by assets or future revenues.
Beside organising the Summer Olympics (2008) in Beijing, China organised three Asian Games in little more than three decades: Beijing (1990), Guangzhou (2010) and Hangzhou (2023).
