Belt and Road

BEJING - China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) is regarded globally as the most ambitious project ever designed for building connectivity infrastructure like roads, railways and ports. New research shows, however, that China is investing just one-third of th…

It was bound to happen. Salesforce was going to China at some point, and it announced that action this week saying it was partnering with Alibaba. There are so many ways to read this, but I don't have the filters to resist comparing the announcement to what …

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…