Belt and Road

A huge road-building scheme in Papua New Guinea could imperil some of the largest, biologically richest and culturally most diverse forests on the planet, says an international research team led by James Cook University in Australia. "This plan has big red f…

Malaysia on Thursday restarted a $10-billion, China-backed rail project that is part of Beijing's global infrastructure drive following its suspension last year when a corruption-plagued government was ejected from power. The 640-kilometre (400-mile) line wi…

DUNGUN, Malaysia: China and Malaysia resumed construction on a massive "Belt and Road" train project in northern Malaysia on Thursday, after a year-long suspension and following a rare agreement to cut the cost by nearly a third to about US$11 billion. The p…

Published: 2:53pm, 24 Jul, 2019 Updated: 3:06pm, 24 Jul, 2019

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SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia and Papua New Guinea said on Monday their leaders will meet annually in a bid to foster closer ties, which Canberra believes is important in its bid to counter China’s quest for greater influence in the Pacific. The pledge came …

Cambodia has denied a report that it has reached a secret agreement to allow China to station its armed forces at a coastal naval base. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that Cambodia had agreed to allow China exclusive access to part of Cambodia's …

China Southern is majority-owned by the Chinese government and supervised by its State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission. It has just raised $4.36 billion in new capital from government-backed and government-linked investment funds to imp…

Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Chinese President Xi Jinping. (File) As Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit India later this year for his second informal summit with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, China has said the two neighbours should not allow …

China Southern Airlines to receive $4 billion capital injection