Stock traders feel heat with 774 probes in two months

China’s regulators are intensifying scrutiny of unusual movements in stocks as they seek to damp speculation in the nation’s financial markets. Exchanges in Shanghai and Shenzhen have opened 774 investigations into

Oil refining empire helps Sinopec beat energy rivals

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., the refining giant known as Sinopec, outshined its domestic state-run rivals in the first half of the year as its fuel-making business helped it weather

Duterte to raise sea feud ruling against Chinese wishes

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told China’s ambassador yesterday that he will not immediately press Beijing to comply with an international tribunal’s ruling that invalidated Chinese territorial claims in the South

10 killed in southern China bus crash

Authorities in southern China say 10 people were killed and dozens injured when a bus overturned on a highway. The government of the Guangxi Autonomous Region said the accident occurred over

Does China still harvest organs of executed? Doctors divided

A Canadian patient’s receipt of a kidney transplant after waiting just three days during a recent visit to China raised an immediate red flag among surgeons at the Montreal-based Transplantation

Authorities say school in TV pollution report is safe

Investigators in eastern China said they have not found high levels of pollution around a school where an explosive state television report in April said hundreds of kids had fallen

Hong Kong | US short seller Left engaged in misconduct

U.S. short-seller Andrew Left engaged in market misconduct by publishing false or misleading information about a Chinese property developer, a Hong Kong tribunal ruled on Friday. The city’s Market Misconduct Tribunal

Syria to make Macau its ‘home’ for 2018 WC qualifiers in China group

Syria’s National Football team will be playing all of their “home” matches for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Qualifiers in Macau, as proposed by the Macau Football Association (MFA) and

Views on China | Chinese oil demand goes from raging bull to gagging bear

Chinese oil demand, so long the picture of a ravenous bull, is looking more like a vomiting bear. PetroChina reported its worst-ever first-half profit this week. That was mostly due to

Duterte toughens anti-China rhetoric | There will be blood if Philippine territory breached

The tough-talking Philippine president said he will walk the extra mile for peace but warned China “it will be bloody” if the militarily superior Asian neighbor infringes on his country’s

China faces one-year ban from weightlifting over doping

China is facing a one-year ban from weightlifting over repeated doping cases in a move which threatens to stop some of the world’s top athletes from competing internationally. The International Weightlifting

Sights set on new global export: nuclear energy

On a seaside field south of Shanghai, workers are constructing a nuclear reactor that is the flagship for Beijing’s ambition to compete with the United States, France and Russia as

Hong Kong | Shares decline most in three weeks as lenders slump

Hong Kong shares fell the most in three weeks on speculation recent gains were excessive relative to earnings prospects. Chinese banks and Tencent Holdings Ltd. led declines. The Hang Seng Index

South China Sea | Duterte expects talks with Beijing on sea feud this year

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said on Tuesday he expects talks with China on a long-simmering territorial dispute to start possibly this year, and urged Beijing to allow Filipinos to fish

UN envoy: Beijing must give public voice to stamp out poverty

China’s efforts to reduce poverty have improved the lives of hundreds of millions of people, but they could be undermined in the future without efforts to root out corruption and

Pandas | Cub’s older sister celebrates birthday at National Zoo

Her brother got the big party, but the National Zoo’s other young giant panda is also celebrating a birthday. Bao Bao turned 3 yesterday. That means she only has a year

Taiwan | Financial regulator to probe bank fined in US for money laundering slip

Taiwan’s financial regulator is investigating Mega Financial Holding Co. after New York state ordered its banking unit to pay a USD180 million penalty and install an independent monitor for violating

Economy | Dark clouds loom for oil as China chases blue skies for G-20

China is throwing the world’s leaders a party, and oil bulls may be hit with the hangover. Authorities in the Asian nation have ordered hundreds of factories to curb activity ahead

Beijing envoy visits Taiwan amid protests

A Chinese envoy arrived in Taiwan yesterday for a city-to-city dialogue, amid a chill in relations between the sides following the inauguration of the island’s independence-leaning president Tsai ing-wen in

Opinion – Views on China | The Chinese Are Coming, to Sell You a Cheap Smartphone: Gadfly

In the next five years, a majority of U.S. consumers will have bought a Chinese-brand smartphone. Such a prospect may raise the hackles of purported American patriots and presidential candidates,

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