Wednesday, December 18, 2024
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Shanghai Vice Mayor Hua Yuan, at the 2024 Shanghai-Taipei City Forum, extended a warm invitation to Taiwan residents to visit Shanghai and promised to promote group tours to Taiwan for Shanghai residents, with Taipei a must stop. More
The search volume for Chinese destinations soared significantly after China announced a new relaxation of its visa-free transit policy on Tuesday, extending the stay for eligible foreign travelers from the original 72 and 144 hours to 240 hours, travel operators revealed. More
"Wind from the Sea — 2024 Exhibition of Architectural Artworks" is on display at the China Art Museum until February 28, 2025. The exhibition showcases the work of approximately 100 prominent domestic architects, including Wang Jianguo, Sun Yimin, and Cui Tong. More
China announced on Tuesday a significant relaxation of its visa-free transit policy, extending the permitted stay for eligible foreign travelers from the original 72 and 144 hours to 240 hours, or 10 days. More
China on Tuesday executed Li Jianping, a former official in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, after convicting him of corruption, bribery, misappropriation of public funds, and collusion with a criminal syndicate. More
Customers now can order items from all 300 plus Walmart stores in China online via the country's biggest food delivery platform Meituan with the goods delivered to their doorstep after the two announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday. More
Alibaba Group is selling its department store arm Intime to textiles and clothing conglomerate Youngor Fashion Co for 7.4 billion yuan (US$1 billion). More
TikTok on Monday asked the US Supreme Court to block a law that would ban the video-sharing app if ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, doesn't sell it to a non-Chinese buyer by January 19. More
A teenage shooter killed a fellow student and a teacher at a Wisconsin school and wounded six others on Monday before police found the suspect dead at the scene in the latest school shooting to devastate a US community. More
South Korean prosecutors have asked the impeached President Yoon Suk-yeol to appear for questioning over his martial law imposition by December 21, Yonhap news agency said Tuesday. More
A 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck Vanuatu's capital of Port Vila on Tuesday, causing "considerable damage" to some buildings, including a shared diplomatic mission. More
A Russian lieutenant general and his assistant were killed by an explosion in a Moscow residential building on Tuesday morning. More
