Beijing

DAVOS - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the fringes of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Tuesday.

Vucic said earlier he would raise several very significant questions for Serbia, including establishing direct flights from Belgrade to Beijing and the start of works on upgrading the rail line from Belgrade to Budapest.

A Chinese official has admitted his province falsified its economic data for years, state media said on Jan. 18, as the country prepares to release its national growth estimates for 2016.

The searches in the Indian Ocean for the Malaysian Airlines MH370 flight have been officially called off after three years.

According to an announcement made by China, Australia and Malaysia, although the most advanced technological equipment were used, the airplane was not located.

The deep-sea search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ended on Jan. 17, without any trace being found of the plane that vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board, the three countries involved in the search said. 

The 47th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) will take on Jan. 17-20 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, under the theme of "Responsive and Responsible Leadership." 

More than 2,500 participants from nearly 100 countries are slated to meet and participate in over 300 sessions at the elite gathering.

Prospective U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson better watch his mouth, angry Chinese media said Jan. 13, warning U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominee that his threats to block China in the South China Sea are fighting words.

Hong Kong's tough pro-Beijing number two Carrie Lam announced her bid to lead the deeply divided city on Jan. 12 after stepping down from her current post.  

Lam is deputy to Hong Kong's unpopular leader Leung Chun-ying and rose through the ranks as a career civil servant before taking public office.  

Northwest China's Xinjiang Uighur autonomous region will run more westbound trains on China-Europe routes in 2017 to boost exports, Xinhua reported on Jan. 6. 

BELGRADE - After India completed testing on Monday of its newest ballistic missile variant, China warned New Delhi that if long-range missile development continues, Beijing would help Pakistan, an "all-weather friend," do the same.

The hidden danger to wildlife posed by imported consumer goods - an espresso coffee in Beijing, a tofu salad in Chicago - can now be pinpointed and measured, researchers said Jan. 5.

Crunching huge amounts of data, they unveiled a global "threat map" detailing the impact on endangered species of exports to the United States, China, Japan and the European Union.