Last Updated: Thursday, April 23, 2015, 10:33
China has announced plans that will allow giants such as Visa and MasterCard to set up credit card clearing services in the country, breaking the monopoly in a multi-trillion-dollar market foreign firms have been trying to tap for decades.
Last Updated: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 21:05
In addition to such rough treatment, foreign reporters working in China also generally deal with official intimidation of interviewees as well as bars on going to Tibet or troubled parts of ethnic minority regions.
Last Updated: Friday, October 18, 2013, 20:40
China on Friday sounded hopeful about reaching an agreement on liberalisation of visa regime during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh`s visit here next week, even though India has deferred a decision on the issue.
Last Updated: Friday, October 11, 2013, 21:01
A former MP of Arunachal Pradesh asked the central government to start issuing stapled visa to citizens of four Chinese provinces as a retaliation to granting similar travel documents by China to people of the Northeastern state.
Last Updated: Saturday, May 4, 2013, 13:47
China plans to issue multiple-entry five year visas to attract high-skilled foreign professionals to broaden its technological base.
Last Updated: Thursday, December 6, 2012, 14:21
Beijing will start a 72-hour visa-free stay policy for citizens of 45 countries from Jan 1, 2013. Tourists holding third country visas and plane tickets can apply for transit without visa at Beijing.
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 15, 2012, 20:22
Official sources here said that in 2011, 30 percent more visas were issued to Chinese visitors than in 2010.
Last Updated: Friday, February 10, 2012, 18:26
The US has liberalised visa procedures for non-immigrant Chinese as it stepped up efforts to woo more tourists to help its ailing economy.
Last Updated: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 18:43
China Thursday made it clear that it will not issue visas to any official from Arunachal Pradesh, over which it lays claims, and will continue to issue stapled visas to non-officials from that state.
Last Updated: Friday, November 13, 2009, 00:41
India has asked those going to China to ensure their visas are pasted on passports.
Last Updated: Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 14:58
China`s commerce ministry has voiced concern over New Delhi`s reported insistence that only those with employment visa can work in India, a move a newspaper said had hurt Chinese workers badly.
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