A year ago, business was humming for Liang Jiawei, a property salesman in Zhanjiang, a coastal city

“ Usually a home market decline would persist for about eight months in China.... Existing-home values slid 0.21% in 35 so-called tier-three cities, the most since early 2015.... The property firm’s trouble “ casts a little bit of concern, ” People’s Bank of China governor Yi Gang said at a virtual meeting of the Group of 30 on Sunday....

Join our Whatsapp channel LAHORE: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has ordered designated lanes, called diamond lanes, for motorcycle riders on Lahore’s all major roads on the pattern of China, the country she visited recently.... During a meeting a few days ago, the CM shared the idea with some cabinet members and directed senior minister Maryam Aurangzeb to get it implemented to check rising number of fatal accidents.... An official said the CM told the minister that she had personally observed d

Russia and China's naval forces have begun joint military drills-days after NATO allies accused Beijing of being an enabler of the war in Ukraine. The exercise, which began in Guangdong province on Sunday and is expected to last until the middle of the month, aimed to demonstrate the capabilities of the two countries' navies in addressing security threats, CCTV reported. China's state broadcaster said the drills include anti-missile exercises, sea strikes, and air defence measures.... Xinhua Ne

China said on Monday that it would allow all married couples to have three children, ending a two-child policy that has failed to raise the country’s declining birthrates and avert a demographic crisis.... The labor pool is shrinking and the population is graying, threatening the industrial strategy that China has used for decades to emerge from poverty to become an economic powerhouse.... But it is far from clear that relaxing the policy further will pay off....

Not being able to see the forest for the trees isn’t just a colloquialism for Mihai Nita — it’s a professional disadvantage.“ When I go into the forest, I can only see 100 meters around me, ” said Dr.... “ We needed an eye in the sky.” To map a landscape’s history, foresters like Dr.... Nita long depended on maps and traditional tree inventories that could be riddled with inaccuracies....