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'Smooth and easy': India and China resume direct flights as ties improve
AFP, Published on 27/10/2025
» GUANGZHOU - Passengers of the first direct flight between India and China in five years touched down on Monday, after Asia's giants lifted a long-term air travel suspension as they cautiously rebuild relations.
Taiwan singers won't let curtain fall on Hakka opera
AFP, Published on 09/10/2023
» TAOYUAN (TAIWAN) - Dressed in a robe fringed with beaded tassels, traditional Taiwanese opera singer Jen Chieh-li applies the final touches to her heavily painted face as she prepares to take the stage.
China to send first civilian astronaut to space station
AFP, Published on 30/05/2023
» JIUQUAN (CHINA) - China will send three astronauts to its Tiangong space station on Tuesday, putting a civilian scientist into space for the first time as Beijing pursues plans to send a manned mission to the Moon by the end of the decade.
'I am Taiwanese': China threat toughens island's identity
AFP, Published on 17/04/2023
» TAIPEI - At a barbed-wire museum where political prisoners were once held, visitors lauded Taiwan's modern-day democracy shaped by its own national identity on the island across from authoritarian China.
Xi's 'Chinese Dream' flickers in one Beijing neighbourhood
AFP, Published on 04/10/2022
» BEIJING: Wu has staked out his patch of the Chinese Dream. Married with a second child on the way, he has a Beijing apartment and a car paid for by a tech job with a comfortable salary.
Taiwan's frontline islanders unfazed by beat of China war drum
AFP, Published on 13/08/2022
» KINMEN (TAIWAN) - Not far from the rusted-out tanks and anti-landing spikes that litter the beaches of the Taiwanese island where he lives, 92-year-old veteran Yang Yin-shih reads his newspaper in the shadow of the enemy that regularly adorns its pages.
'Graft probes and power games': Xi's corruption drive turns to cash trail
AFP, Published on 10/03/2022
» BEIJING: China's President Xi Jinping has his sights on domestic critics' riches as a corruption crackdown gathers pace to consolidate his power and secure an unprecedented third term.
Taiwan's Chan Shih-chang claims inaugural Royal's Cup Thailand
AFP, Published on 27/02/2022
» Taiwan's Chan Shih-chang claimed the inaugural Royal's Cup golf tournament in Kanchanaburi on Sunday, capping off a stellar run of four days as clubhouse leader.
Golfer Chanachok in joint second place at Laguna Phuket
AFP, Published on 02/12/2021
» South Korea's Bi-o Kim snatched the clubhouse lead on day one of the Laguna Phuket Championship after firing an impressive eight-under-par 62 on Thursday.
Filipinos flock to cemeteries ahead of All Saints' Day closure
AFP, Published on 28/10/2021
» MANILA - Thousands of people flocked to cemeteries in the Catholic-majority Philippines on Thursday for their last chance to visit dead loved ones ahead of a government-ordered nationwide closure of graveyards for All Saints' Day.