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About 18,000 music fans descended on the soon-to-open Kai Tak Stadium for a concert on Saturday in the first non-sports trial run at Hong Kong’s newest venue. The 1½-hour “Four in Love ...

HONG KONG/SHANGHAI -- China on Friday announced that its economic growth rate for 2024 was in line with the target set by a government beset by the threat of fresh U.S. tariffs, an enduring ...

While China’s sixth-generation fighter jets pierce ... is an unidentified flying object (UFO) as big as a sports stadium. The effect – similar to a giant flying saucer suddenly materialising ...

as big as a sports stadium on radars. This is aimed at fooling enemy radar operators during wars and strengthen China’s position in electronic warfare technology. Earlier, military researchers ...

Analysts say they see signs of malaise in China’s domestic economy, but those problems were offset mainly by robust exports and a $1 trillion trade surplus. By Keith Bradsher Reporting from ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. CORRECTS DATE - Workers inspect items at a chip maker in Binzhou city in east China’s Shandong province on ...

TAIPEI, Taiwan -- China's population fell last year for the third straight year, its government said Friday, pointing to further demographic challenges for the world's second most populous nation ...

Births in China rose for the first time in eight years ... Most of last year fell in the Year of the Dragon, considered an auspicious period for marriage and births in Chinese culture.

China’s economy grew more than expected in ... 2024 was also the Year of the Dragon on the Chinese lunar calendar, an especially auspicious year for having babies. But the overall population ...

In a news release on Friday morning, China's National Bureau of Statistics reported its economy grew 5% in 2024 from a year ago, meeting its official target. Analysts polled by Reuters had ...