Disqualified Hong Kong lawmakers attend appeal hearing

Two Hong Kong separatist lawmakers attended a hearing at the city’s High Court yesterday to appeal a verdict that disqualified them from taking their seats after they altered their

Jiangxi: At least 67 killed in east China scaffolding collapse

Scaffolding at a construction site in eastern China collapsed into a deadly heap today (Thursday), as iron pipes, steel bars and wooden planks tumbled down and crushed nearly all 70

Dalai Lama: ‘I have no worries’ about Trump’s election

Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said yesterday he has “no worries” about Donald Trump’s election as U.S. president, adding that he expects the businessman

Airbnb said in talks to buy home-rental rival Xiaozhu

Airbnb Inc. is in talks to acquire China’s Xiaozhu.com to expand in the nation’s home rental sharing market, according to a person familiar with the matter. The companies have

Facebook developing censorship tool to enter China market

Facebook is developing censorship tools to suppress controversial content as a means to appease China’s ruling Communist Party and finally re-enter the world’s most populous country.

Property | Chinese-made USD100 billion city near Singapore ‘scares everybody’

The landscaped lawns and flowering shrubs of Country Garden Holdings Co.’s huge property showroom in southern Malaysia end abruptly at a small wire fence. Beyond, a desert of

Daimler fires official accused of calling Chinese ‘bastards’

A top executive at German automaker Daimler’s China operation has been fired after being accused of yelling insults about Chinese people and using pepper spray in a dispute

Hong Kong Disney gets USD1.4b expansion with Frozen theme area

The Walt Disney Co. and Hong Kong are launching a USD1.4 billion expansion of the southern Chinese city’s Disneyland resort that includes the company’s first themed areas based

China says it is caring for refugees from Myanmar fighting

China is caring for about 3,000 refugees who have entered its territory to escape fighting in Myanmar between the government and ethnic rebels, including some who have been

Vehicle pile-up leaves 17 people dead, 37 injured

Dozens of vehicles collided amid snowy weather in northern China, leaving 17 dead and 37 injured, state media reported yesterday. A total of 56 vehicles were involved

Three black Americans see China as their land of opportunity

Entertainer Douglass Fearon attributes part of his success to the fact that “I’m an anomaly — I’m a black man in China.” For some of the relatively few

Football | Berlusconi wants to retain powers after selling AC Milan to Chinese group

Silvio Berlusconi would stay on as honorary president at AC Milan after selling the club to Chinese investors if he can retain powers impacting the squad. “I would have

Hong Kong | Xi ‘affirmed our work’ in election dispute says CY Leung

Hong Kong’s leader said Chinese President Xi Jinping has affirmed his handling of a political dispute in the Chinese-ruled territory in which two recently elected legislators were

South China Sea | Duterte to declare fishing ban in Beijing-controlled lagoon

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has decided to declare a lagoon in China-controlled waters to be a marine sanctuary where Filipinos and Chinese will be prohibited from fishing,

Dalai Lama preaches in Mongolia, risking Beijing’s fury 

The Dalai Lama preached to thousands of Buddhists in Mongolia despite demands from China that the visit by the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader be scrapped, at a time Mongolia seeks a

NY police: 2 men killed Chinese student in drug deal robbery 

Two men have been accused of killing a Syracuse University student from China during a drug deal robbery in upstate New York, authorities said Friday. Onondaga County Sheriff Gene

Hong Kong, Chile ink investment deal at APEC meeting

Hong Kong and Chile have signed a bilateral investment agreement on the sidelines of an Asian-Pacific summit in Peru. The Hong Kong government said Saturday that the

Analysis | Hong Kong needs a champion to preserve its autonomy

When he retired from Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal in 2012, Justice Kemal Bokhary predicted that a “storm of unprecedented ferocity” was gathering over

HK democracy activist appears at US Capitol

A prominent young Hong Kong democracy activist urged president-elect Donald Trump yesterday to support human rights in the semiautonomous city that he says are under threat from Beijing. Twenty-year

Cybersecurity | Beijing doubles down on internet control after tough new law

China’s leaders and official media are pushing for greater control of the internet and technology products as tensions surrounding a far-reaching Chinese cybersecurity law loom over a

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