The Asian giant has over 300 million tobacco-smokers, but the  vaping trend has yet to explode as it has in the United States and elsewhere.
		
	 
	
		
		A week after an initial launch was halted just before blast-off, Chandrayaan-2  took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre
		
	 
	
		
		The Chandrayaan-2 — or Moon Chariot 2 — mission is part of India’s ambitious space programme
		
	 
	
		
		On July 1, Shanghai launched China’s most ambitious garbage separation and recycling programme ever
		
	 
	
		
		Delegations from both sides arrived in Barbados Monday morning to revive discussions, after a previous round in Norway petered out
		
	 
	
		
		Is Africa following China into a techno-dystopian future?
		
	 
	
		
		China accounts for nearly a third of foreign students on US campuses who pour billions of dollars into the economy
		
	 
	
		
		But South Africa will have to adopt proactive policies to increase demand and manufacturing
		
	 
	
		
		Hong Kong was ceded to Britain in perpetuity by China in the mid-1800s. But following an agreement in 1997, it would be handed back to China
		
	 
	
		
		If China’s leaders cannot endorse a genuine election of the chief executive, they should at least revert to their plan of holding a popular vote
		
	 
	
		
		The semi-autonomous financial hub has been thrown into crisis by weeks of massive demonstrations
		
	 
	
		
		Thousands of democracy activists staged a peaceful march in Hong Kong on Monday afternoon, calling for the city’s pro-Beijing leader to step down.
		
	 
	
		
		The long-running trade war between the world’s top two economies looked poised to dominate the agenda of the group of 20 summit
		
	 
	
		
		Rating agencies have been at the centre of major financial crises
		
	 
	
		
		Are China or Russia ahead of the US in aerial technology or are intergalactic visitors trying to make friends with us?
		
	 
	
		
		This is a response to Mathew Blatchford’s column ‘Don’t attack the Chinese — learn from their example’
		
	 
	
		
		Many protesters in the city have used Telegram to evade electronic surveillance and coordinate their demonstrations
		
	 
	
		
		By labelling China as a colonial threat, Zambian historian Sishuwa Sishuwa is helping its enemies
		
	 
	
		
		From the powerful Germans to the sanguine Spanish, here’s everything you need to know about South Africa’s World Cup opponents
		
	 
	
		
		Should we temper our expectations as Banyana Banyana enter their first World Cup?
		
	 
	
		
		Hospitals in Khartoum said they were struggling to cope with the number of wounded after security forces launched a deadly raid on Monday
		
	 
	
		
		June 4 marks 30 years since the Chinese government violently ended weeks of pro-democracy protests in the heart of Beijing
		
	 
	
		
		Africa is on the frontline of China’s neocolonial project. We must resist
		
	 
	
		
		The world’s top two economies are at loggerheads as trade talks have apparently stalled
		
	 
	
		
		Beijing had already dropped a big hint that rare earths could be in the firing line
		
	 
	
		
		Plastic imports to Malaysia have tripled since 2016, to 870 000 tonnes last year, official data showed
		
	 
	
		
		Now that the US president has imposed heavy costs on farmers, consumers and the overall economy, Americans are probably growing quite tired
		
	 
	
		
		Donald Trump stepped up his battle against Huawei on Wednesday, effectively barring the Chinese telecom giant from the US market
		
	 
	
		
		US President Donald Trump on Wednesday tightened the screws further on Iran with sanctions on its mining industry
		
	 
	
		
		The warning will throw a shadow over the next round of talks, with a delegation from Beijing due in Washington this week
		
	 
	
		
		South Africa’s power utility has become a bottomless pit of expenses; it’s debatable whether it can feasibly ever be saved
		
	 
	
		
		Dozens of foreign trawlers are licensed to fish in Sierra Leonean waters and the aim of the ban was to help replenish species damaged by overfishing