*GENEVA/TOKYO: *The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that the United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, which finally forced reluctant organisers to postpone the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. Britain joined the ranks of countries in lockdown to try to hold ...

BEIJING - Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) and Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE) on Tuesday signed an agreement to upgrade trading and surveillance systems at a ceremony held in Shenzhen, a major city in the Chinese province of Guangdong. General Manager of Shenzhen Stock Exchange Wang Jianjun, ...

URUMQI: Habib Bank Ltd now offers end-to-end intermediation for Chinese currency Renminbi (RMB), allowing customers to now open RMB accounts. This makes HBL the first bank from Pakistan, and one of the three banks from South Asia and the MENA region, to do so. The bank’s branch in Urumqi, in ...

*PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the government of China to cooperate in different fields.* According to a spokesman of the provincial government, the MoU has been signed between provincial capital Peshawar and Xuzhou, the Capital city ...

ISLAMABAD: The ambitious plan of connecting Pakistan’s railway network from China and Afghanistan to Gwadar deep sea port under China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has been declared strategically important by both the countries. The plan will help commercially viable transportation of goods ...

BEIJING - Chinese social media is abuzz with netizens claiming to have spotted an unidentified flying object (UFO) across multiple provinces of China when the Navy was conducting military exercises, official media reported on Sunday. China conducted naval exercises in the Bohai Sea and Bohai ...

BEIJIING - Chinese cities Urumqi, Puyang and Xian were declared as sister cities to Karachi, Gwadar, and Multan respectively at a forum on cooperation between China and Pakistan friendship and cities held here on Thursday to further enhance the bond of friendship between China and Pakistan. The ...

*LAHORE - China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) passenger bus service has been launched.* *The first bus service has been been launched on the route between Lahore and Kashgar.* “The initiative to connect Pakistan and China via road under CPEC, passengers will require a valid visa and ...

Kashgar bound bus has left on its maiden journey from the Lahore and will take 36 hours to reach Chinese province Xinjiang.               The bus service is part of initiative to connect Pakistan and China via road under CPEC and will be a boon for business ...

BEIJING- China has aggressively pushed the construction of its first-ever homemade aircraft carrier - codenamed Type 001A. The massive ship is reportedly ready for sea trials and may be inducted in the PLA Navy by the end of this year. According to state-owned Global Times, the aircraft carrier - ...