People's Republic of China

Another 53.7 tonnes of gold withdrawn from the Shanghai Gold Exchange in the final week of January. Chinese gold consumption is far, far higher than the estimates supplied by mainstream analysts and it may not be being taken that seriously by the institutional market but after the latest U.S. jobs data we think that the U.S. Fed will start raising interest rates by the middle of the year.

President Xi Jinping said China will aid Russia in preparing for the BRICS Summit 2015 and will jointly maintain emerging economies’ interests and promote global economic governance reform.

The foreign ministers of China, Russia and India meet in Beijing to hold major trilateral talks. Both Russia and China back inclusion of India in APEC.

China’s President Xi Jinping laid out an ambitious agenda and called for efforts to create and fulfill an "Asia-Pacific dream," citing China as a regional leader.

China's third biggest pharmaceutical company in prescription drug market is optimistic that they would get fast-track approval before the end of the year from the government for an Ebola cure currently used by the Chinese military to be made available for the public.

The U.S. indictment of five members of People's Liberation Army with "ungrounded" and "absurd" commercial cyber espionage against American companies are based on fabricated facts, grossly violates the basic norms governing international relations and has harmed China-U.S. ties, the Chinese government says.

The title of "Dalai Lama", was not granted by the Dalai Lama himself, or created by Tibetan Buddhism, or conferred by the old Tibetan ruling class and still less by any foreigners. The title was actually granted by the central government of China's dynasties and has multi-ethnic language features.

"To be frugal is glorious" is the new Chinese mantra: China's central government will spend less on overseas visits, vehicles and receptions, popularly known as the "three public consumptions," this year amid the country's frugality campaign, said the Ministry of Finance (MOF).

In a pilot program to test the country’s preparedness for private capital in its banking sector, China will set up five private banks, the chief of the country’s banking regulator said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke to “ally and friend” Vladimir Putin to discuss the Ukraine crisis and bilateral ties.

A "deeply concerned" China on Monday urged Japan to return to the US over 300 kg of weapons-grade plutonium, which could arm upto 50 nuclear bombs, the latest in a series of disputes between the two distrustful neighbours.

China's 094 Jin-class ballistic missile submarine, capable of launching a nuclear attack against critical targets in the west coast of USA if provoked and threatened, will begin its patrol mission over the Western Pacific this year.