Three Chinese astronauts, including a woman, on board the Shenzhou-13, have entered the space station core module Tianhe, the country's space agency said, hours after the spaceship was successfully launched for a record six-month mission. The members of the crew includes Zhai Zhigang, Wang ...

Russia and China’s navies have kicked off joint naval maneuvers in the Sea of Japan, the Russian Defense Ministry said on October 14, 2021.  The exercises will culminate on October 17, 2021. During the war game, the combined force would practice shooting at targets designed to imitate ...

Chinese researchers investigating the animal origin of the coronavirus outbreak in China have said that the endangered pangolin may be the “missing link” between bats and humans. A genetic analysis showed that the strain of the virus currently spreading among humans was 96% identical to that found ...

An outbreak of Novel Coronavirus is on-going in China and exported cases have been reported from other countries internationally. Coronaviruses cause illness ranging from common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)-CoV and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ...

The opaque Chinese arms industry has made the Asian nation the world's second largest producer of munitions, a clear shift from a decade ago when China relied on imports. The report showed that the Chinese arms groups have generated sufficient sales to be ranked among the world's top 20 weapons ...

China operationalised the world’s largest radio telescope with a diameter of half-a-kilometre that the colossal device is expected to make major scientific discoveries in the coming years. The “Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope” (FAST) is a single-dish telescope and is located ...

A new virus implicated in a pneumonia outbreak in central China killed a 61-year-old man there. It was the first death of the outbreak in the city of Wuhan, where 59 people have been quarantined. Chinese scientists discovered a new strain of coronavirus there this week. Daily Current Affairs ...

China has publicised new drug to treat Alzheimer's disease has hit the market, raising hopes of a cure for millions of people in the country and abroad suffering from the brain disorder. Extracted from brown algae, the medicine is said to be the world's first innovative therapy for the treatment ...

China has launched two powerful naval destroyers. It is building a massive pier at the Djibouti naval base in the Indian Ocean to dock its aircraft carriers, as the state media described 2019 the “year of harvest” for the Chinese military, which has acquired a whole range of modern weapons. With ...

China successfully launched the largest carrier rocket of the country, Long March-5, from Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province. The rocket, also known as CZ-5, blasted off with more than 1,000 tonnes of thrust at 8.45 pm. The Chinese space authorities declared the mission ...