China’s box-office revenues surged in 2017 after slowing sharply the preceding year, official media reported, as the world’s second-largest movie market edges closer to overtaking the US. Ticket revenue grew 13.45 percent to 55.9 billion yuan ($8.6 billion) in 2017, more than triple 2016’s growth rate, state media Xinhua reported late Tuesday, citing data from […]

TEHRAN – Secretary Gen. of Islamic Coalition party said Mon. that the capacities of the International Conference of Asian Political Parties (ICAPP) can be used to help resolve the South China Sea dispute. Mohammad Nabi Habibi, Secretary-General of the Islamic Coalition Party, made the remark in a meeting with Vietnamese Ambassador to Tehran, Nguyen Hung […]

TEHRAN – Iran has sent two groups to China to be trained in fighting terrorism and forged identity documents, Deputy Interior Minister for Security and Law Enforcement Mohammad Hossein Zolfaqari said on Saturday. Zolfaqari said the decision was in line with Iranian-Chinese agreement for security cooperation, the YJC reported. Such cooperation would boost the knowledge […]

Beijing has rejected claims that it has illicitly sold oil supplies to North Korea in contravention of UN resolutions, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said, disputing earlier claims by US President Donald Trump. Responding to Trump’s claim that China had been “caught red handed” transferring oil to North Korean vessels, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua […]

The China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation has announced the successful launch of a rocket with Earth remote sensing satellites. China successfully launched on Tuesday the Chang Zheng-2 rocket carrying three Earth remote sensing satellites, which is the last country’s space launch in 2017, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) said. “CASC successfully […]

China firmly supports the two-state solution and establishment of an independent State of Palestine that enjoys full sovereignty on the basis of the 1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said. Wang made the remarks during a meeting with Palestinian president’s envoys, Majdalani and Nabil Shaath, in Beijing […]

TEHRAN — A hospital named after world-class Iranian neurosurgeon Majid Samii was officially opened in Shenzhen, China, on December 18.  In appreciation of the valuable scientific services of Professor Samii in training hundreds of brain and neurological surgeons in China the 1,000-bed Shenzhen Samii medical mega hospital was named after Samii in 2015 who has […]

China’s Defense Ministry on Thursday urged the United States to abandon its Cold War mentality and opt for closer military cooperation, in response to a new US national security strategy. In a statement posted on the Chinese social media network WeChat, the defense ministry expressed hope that “the US will abandon its Cold War mentality, […]

TEHRAN– A Chinese firm was awarded a contract to hold the 70 percent of the shares in the project to build a new highway between Iranian SW city of Ahvaz and central city of Isfahan. A highway linking Ahvaz, Izeh, Lordegan, and Isfahan in southwestern Iran will be built with a Chinese investor providing 70 […]

TEHRAN– Chinese energy giant CNPC could take over Total’s stake in a major Iranian gas project if the French company is forced to leave Iran over any new US sanctions, media reported. Total signed the $1 billion deal to develop the South Pars gas field this year. According to the company, the project will produce […]