China pledges to cut steel glut, avoid race to devalue yuan

China promised yesterday to rein in steel production that is flooding global markets and to work with Washington to enforce anti-nuclear sanctions against North Korea, but the two sides ended

Inner Mongolia | 74 on trial over murder for compensation plots

Prosecutors in northern China have indicted 74 people for murder and other charges related to scams in which the deaths were staged to look like mining accidents in order to

Retail | Wal-Mart seeks overseas success by going native in China

Zhong Guoyan sifted through piles of fish at a Wal-Mart in Shenzhen, one of China’s largest cities. She studied the fins, to make sure they were bright red and firm.

Critic of Mao persists in documenting turbulent past

As China’s Cultural Revolution descended into mob violence, teenage Red Guards dragged Mao Yushi and his father, two proud and bookish engineers, out of their home to sweep a boulevard as a

Analysis | Debt load is (much) higher than previously thought, Goldman says

Count total social financing (TSF) as another Chinese statistic of increasingly dubious value, according to analysts at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. With many investors grappling to understand the degree to which

US presses China over industrial glut at strategic dialogue

U.S. envoys pressed China yesterday to cut excess steel production that is flooding global markets and to reach a diplomatic settlement to territorial disputes in the South China Sea as the two sides opened

Hong Kong students split from Tiananmen anniversary vigil

While Hong Kongers crammed into a park Saturday to remember the victims of China’s bloody crackdown on protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square 27 years ago, many student groups held rival events in

Kerry cautions China on actions in South China Sea

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says China would be committing a provocative and destabilizing act if it establishes an air defense zone in the South China Sea. Kerry says doing so would

Hong Kong students split from Tiananmen anniversary vigil

HONG KONG (AP) — While Hong Kongers crammed into a park today (Saturday) to remember the victims of China's bloody crackdown on protesters in Beijing's Tiananmen Square 27 years ago,

Cultural Revolution | Five decades after the ‘catastrophe’ few say sorry

As a teenager, Wang Keming felt nothing but contempt for the older peasant his village singled out for collective persecution in 1970. Stirred by Mao Zedong’s radical ideology and inured

Religion | Beijing says Muslim practices to be protected during Ramadan

China’s government won’t interfere with fasting and other standard religious activities in the traditionally Muslim region of Xinjiang during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan that begins this month, officials

Diplomacy | Human rights question prompts scolding from Wang Yi

China’s visiting foreign minister publicly berated a Canadian journalist yesterday for asking a question about his country’s human rights record. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said it was “irresponsible” of

South China Sea | Report says tensions to drive defense spending

Growing tensions in the disputed South China Sea will drive up defense spending in the Asia-Pacific region by almost 23 percent by the end of the decade, consultancy IHS Jane’s

Mitsubishi Materials, Chinese WWII slave workers reach deal

Mitsubishi Materials Corp., one of dozens of Japanese companies that used Chinese forced laborers during World War II, reached a settlement covering thousands of victims yesterday that includes compensation and

Wanted Taiwanese fugitive dies in car accident in California

A former tycoon who was one of Taiwan’s most wanted fugitives was in the middle of a decade-long fight to stay in the United States when he was killed in

Chinese UN peacekeeper killed, 4 injured in Mali attack

Attackers in Mali killed one Chinese U.N. peacekeeper and injured four in an early morning attack on their base yesterday, China's Foreign Ministry said. Spokeswoman Hua Chunying described the attack as

27 years on | Moms of Tiananmen victims vow to fight

Mothers of some of those killed in the bloody crackdown on China’s 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement say they have lived through 27 years of state-led “terror and suffocation” and vow

Courts | Beijing investigates death in police custody of new father

Beijing prosecutors said yesterday they were investigating the death in police custody of a young college graduate and new father who had been picked up on suspicion of visiting prostitutes,

Hong Kong | Chinese curbs fail to slow insurance buying frenzy

Chinese residents pumped a record amount of money into Hong Kong insurance in the first quarter even as the mainland government tightened restrictions on the purchases, which serve as a

Disney poised to spur theme park rush in land of Dwarf Empire

Beijing has Shijingshan, known as “Fake Disney,” Shenzhen has a park with replica landmarks and Yunnan province has Dwarf Empire, an attraction based on little people. With already 300 theme parks

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