A Beijing court has ruled Malaysia Airlines must pay $410,000 each to the families of eight passengers who went missing in the disappearance of Flight 370 more than a decade ago.

India said on Monday it expects China to provide assurances that Indian nationals transiting through Chinese airports will not be "selectively targeted, arbitrarily detained, or harassed," after an Indian citizen was detained at Shanghai airport last month.

China’s “hard power” in economics, science and technology has “significantly improved”, boasted the Communist Party’s Politburo at a meeting on the same day. China’s growing technological sophistication has also contributed to the surprising resilience of its exports.

BEIJING: Beijing denounced on Wednesday British sanctions on two Chinese companies which London alleged were involved in cyber activities against Britain, saying the measure amounted to “political manipulation” of security issues.

Wingtech, the Chinese parent company of Netherlands-based chipmaker Nexperia, has invited the court-appointed custodians of its Dutch unit to Beijing for talks on control of the company, a source familiar with the dispute said on Wednesday.

After Beijing reshaped the political order in Hong Kong in its image, the fire has become a test of how well that new system can govern in a crisis.

A Beijing court said today it had ordered Malaysia Airlines to pay compensation to the families of eight passengers from flight MH370, more than a decade

There were 239 passengers and crew members on the flight that disappeared after departing Kuala Lumpur for Beijing in 2014.

China marked a key step in expanding its high-end aero engine maintenance capabilities as the country's first joint venture for aero maintenance, repair and overhaul officially opened and began operations in the Beijing Capital International Airport Economic Zone on Wednesday.