Beijing: Beijing will earmark 16.5 billion yuan ($2.57 billion) to improve air quality in 2016, sources with the Beijing environment authorities said on Sunday.The funds will be used to cut back on coal use and
Beijing: Beijing has issued its second red alert for air pollution in December as a new bout of smog is forecast to hit the capital from Saturday to Tuesday.The red alert, the most serious level,
Beijing: China's capital Beijing is set to build a UNESCO international centre for creativity and sustainable development, the first of its kind, an official said on Monday.The centre, which will be officially launched next year,
Delhi's air pollution has been one-and-a-half times worse than in Beijing over the past week, according to an IndiaSpend analysis of PM 2.5 (Particulate Matter) concentration data.The analysis is based on a comparison of data
Beijing: China's capital registered a boom in online orders for condoms and sportswear rather than masks and air purifiers, as the city of over 22 million people reeled under the first-ever red alert for rising
Beijing: Half of smog-hit Beijing's 5.5 million private cars were today kept off the roads, with the Chinese capital enforcing its first-ever red alert for pollution as air in the city of over 22 million
Beijing: China's capital city of Beijing today issued a red alert, warning that the city which is home to over 22 million people, faced its worst ever smog. This is the first instance that the capital has issued
Beijing: For four hours every day, for 100 days, Chinese artist Wang Renzheng held up the attachment of an industrial vacuum cleaner to suck in Beijing's notoriously polluted air at various landmarks.Passers-by were intrigued, inquiring
New Delhi: The massive capital city of China banned around 2.5 million cars for two weeks to clear the sky for a prestigious military parade. As soon as the parade marking the defeat of Japan
Beijing: A Chinese firm has announced that it has successfully completed the trial of an unmanned passenger bus, the media reported on Tuesday.Yutong Bus company said its 10.5-metre long bus has managed to successfully navigate
Beijing: China has retained its rank as the world's largest robot market for the second successive year, media reported on Friday.According to data issued by the China Robot Industry Alliance (CRIA) on Thursday, the sales
Kuala Lumpur: The programme of 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics will be the same as Sochi 2014, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) at its 128th session here announced."The sports are skiing, biathlon, curling, luge, bobsleigh, skeleton,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Beijing has been selected to host the 2022 Winter Olympics, becoming the first city awarded both the winter and summer games.Beijing defeated Almaty, Kazakhstan, in a vote of the International Olympic Committee
Beijing: Police in China have cracked down on a Beijing-based company which allegedly made more than 40,000 fake Apple iPhones worth about $19.6 million, a media report said on Saturday.Police said they arrested nine suspects and
Beijing: India need not worry about China's military expansion in the Maldives under its new law allowing foreigners to own land as the communist nation has no policy to build overseas naval bases but its
Beijing: For the first time in 30 years, energy-hungry China is seeing its slowest growth in power consumption.China Electricity Council released a report, "A Brief on 2015 January-June Electricity Industry" that showed a slower growth rate of
Beijing: President Xi Jinping has called for strict management and training of the Chinese army to adapt to new situations and tasks and achieve the goal of a stronger army.Xi Jinping, who is the general
Beijing: Spanish football club Valencia has entered into an agreement with United Nations Women (UN Women) to promote gender equality.The agreement signed in May saw Valencia and UN women announce their partnership to promote gender
London/Beijing: An Indian was among 20 foreigners associated with a religiously inspired African charity arrested by Chinese authorities at an airport in northern Inner Mongolia for suspected links to "a terror group", British officials and
Beijing: It would have been politically unwise to keep India out of the SCO and push it towards other groups, "especially given India's increasing role in global affairs", said an opinion piece in a state-run
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