Beijing

Tuesday saw the arrival of North Korea’s first overseas commercial flight in three years, according to an arrivals board that an AFP correspondent saw at the airport. The board said that Air Koryo aircraft JS151 should...

The latest rains in Beijing were the biggest since records began 140 years ago, according to the city’s weather bureau. “The maximum (amount) of rainfall recorded during this storm, which was 744.8 millimetres, occurred at the...

Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger was praised by Chinese leader Xi Jinping as a “old friend” during their meeting on Thursday in Beijing. During his visit to China this week, Kissinger called for a...

An isolated Russia could be driven further into China’s arms economically in the wake of sanctions imposed over the invasion of Ukraine, but Beijing appears wary of offering a warm embrace. Western countries have hit Russia’s...

Shaun White’s brilliant career came to an end when he fell on his final run at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The impact of the American on snowboarding has been immense, and he expressed relief at being...

The IOC announced Monday that Peng Shuai met with Olympic leader Thomas Bach at the Beijing Winter Games, while US skier Mikaela Shiffrin was bitterly disappointed in her first shot at gold in China. Tennis star...

In a dispute over China’s choice to designate a commander of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) as the event’s torchbearer, an Indian envoy in Beijing said he would not attend the opening and closing ceremonies of...

Chloe Kim, the defending Olympic women’s halfpipe champion and one of the main stars of the previous Winter Olympics, returns to Beijing with a fresh outlook and triumphs in all five disciplines after an almost two-year...

The safety test mileage of Beijing’s self-driving vehicles has exceeded 3 million km to date, equivalent to going about 75 times around the equator. Currently, the city has 226 routes for testing self-driving vehicles, totaling approximately...

The city of Beijing aims to have over 10,000 fuel cell vehicles on the road and build 74 hydrogen filling stations by 2025, as the Chinese capital maps out an ambitious plan to develop the low-carbon...