The merchants carried tea from Yunnan's "steamy" southern valleys to exchange for horses, musk and medicinal herbs in Tibet, and Lijiang, in the north of the province, was a major staging post.

Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, visits a modern flower industrial park in Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan province, March 19, 2025. [Photo/Xinhua ...

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Chinese authorities have begun looking into CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd.’s sale of its overseas port businesses, people familiar with the matter said, amid signs that Beijing is unhappy that the ...

(Bloomberg) — Billionaire Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing has found himself in the middle of the China-US geopolitical tussle after announcing a deal to sell his Panama Canal port assets. The sale, part ...

Japanese company Elecom has unveiled the world’s first power bank using sodium-ion battery technology, according to the company’s official press release. The sodium-ion power bank consists of ...

In the first, a team comprising nine candidates for the posts of the president, deputy president, four vice-presidents and three council members are proposed and elected en bloc. For the individual ...

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Chinese authorities increased pressure on CK Hutchison Holdings over its plan to sell its Panama ports stake by sharing a second newspaper commentary attacking the deal. The Hong Kong and Macau ...

HONG KONG -- Chinese state media escalated criticism of CK Hutchison, the Hong Kong-based conglomerate owned by tycoon Li Ka-shing's family, arguing that its agreement to sell Panama Canal port ...

Analysts said the deal was not final yet due to pending conditions, but was not subject to the approval of Chinese regulators or authorities in Hong Kong. There were no major hurdles to its ...