Two scholars due to speak at Harvard barred from leaving country

A researcher at a prominent Chinese think tank repeatedly targeted by the Communist government said yesterday he and the organization’s director have been barred from leaving the country.

Taiwan | New performing arts center billed as largest in world

A sprawling complex of four theaters billed as the biggest performing arts center in the world has opened in southern Taiwan. The National Kaohsiung Center for the

Xi promises market opening as import fair begins

President Xi Jinping promised to open China’s growing consumer market wider at a fair designed to help counter charges that Beijing abuses the global trading system.

China seeks to rebrand global image with import expo

Facing a blizzard of trade complaints, China is throwing an “open for business” import fair hosted by President Xi Jinping to rebrand itself as a welcoming market

Hong Kong art show canceled after threat

A Hong Kong exhibition featuring an artist critical of China - as well as the band Pussy Riot and former protest leader Joshua Wong - has been canceled

Trump-Xi trade deal is likely to begin rather than end at G-20

President Donald Trump often seems to be caught between his ideological desire to rewrite America’s trade relationship with China and a businessman’s instinct to cut

US senator says China, America ‘competitors but not adversaries’

China and America are “competitors but not adversaries,” U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander told Chinese Premier Li Keqiang yesterday, despite a spiraling trade war and other tensions that

Goldman says yuan will hit 7 as Beijing avoids heavy meddling

China’s policy makers will likely allow the yuan to hit the key level of 7 per dollar within the next six months without conducting heavy intervention,

Xi hosts El Salvador as nations cut ties with Taiwan

Salvadoran President Salvador Sanchez Ceren met with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, in Beijing yesterday, just months after the small Central American nation broke its diplomatic

Opinion | China has the wrong medicine for endangered species

China’s decision to reverse a 25-year-old ban and allow trade, in “special cases,” in products made from critically endangered tigers and rhinos has provoked a predictable firestorm of

American embassy uses WeChat to air criticism of China on home turf

Weeks after President Donald Trump accused China of interfering in its domestic politics, U.S. diplomats are airing criticisms about sensitive issues on the Communist Party’s home turf.

Chinese intelligence officers charged in US aviation hacking

Chinese intelligence officers and hackers working for them have been charged with commercial espionage that included trying to steal information on commercial jet engines, federal prosecutors said

Hong Kong | Journalist, martial arts novelist Louis Cha dies

Louis Cha, a Hong Kong journalist and best-selling Chinese martial arts novelist, has died at age 94 after a long illness. The Hong Kong newspaper

US reassures Taiwan on security as Beijing increases threats

Any attempt to determine Taiwan’s future by “other than peaceful means” is a threat to regional security and a matter of “grave concern” to the United

Economy | Manufacturing weakens to two-year low amid trade battles

China’s manufacturing activity fell to a two-year low in October as domestic demand weakened, an official measure showed yesterday, adding to pressure on Beijing to shore

Beijing reverses ban on trade in tiger, rhino products

China says it will allow trading in products made from endangered tigers and rhinos under “special circumstances,” reversing a previous ban and bringing condemnation from conservation groups.

China, Japan, S. Korea warn citizens not to use marijuana in Canada

Marijuana may be legal now in Canada but at least three Asian governments are warning their citizens to avoid it, including the specter of possible arrest

US limits tech exports to Chinese firm on security grounds

The Trump administration has imposed restrictions on technology exports to a state-supported Chinese semiconductor maker, citing national security grounds amid a mounting tariff battle. The controls

Qiu Shuiping | New Peking University leader former state security official

The official picked to lead one of China’s top universities is a former head of the national spy agency’s Beijing branch, underscoring a drive to tighten Communist

Shandong | Last of 21 dead recovered from coal mine collapse

Searchers have recovered the bodies of all 21 miners who died in an eastern China coal mine collapse, state media said. The official Xinhua News Agency

WP2Social Auto Publish Powered By : XYZScripts.com
MACAU DAILY TIMES