Real Estate | Home price gains cool as smaller cities impose curbs

China’s home-price gains tapered off last month, as second-tier cities joined some of the nation’s largest hubs in imposing housing curbs to cool surging prices. New-home prices excluding government-subsidized housing climbed

Three officials fired after typhoon in east killed 83

The Chinese government has fired three officials in an eastern province after a strong tropical storm killed 83 people and left 19 others missing, an official news agency reported yesterday. Typhoon

Visa rules for Guangdong free trade zone relaxed

The Ministry of Public Security has promised a series of favorable policies for skilled foreign workers in the pilot free trade zone in south China’s Guangdong Province. According a ministry statement

HK said to survey brokerages on dark pool compliance

Hong Kong’s financial market regulator is querying brokerages and banks about their compliance with dark pool rules, according to people who have seen the questionnaire. The Securities and Futures Commission sent

Beijing announces South China Sea military exercises

China is closing off a part of the South China Sea for military exercises this week, the government said yesterday, days after an international tribunal ruled against Beijing’s claim to ownership of virtually

Nine people killed in avalanche in Tibet’s far west

An avalanche in Tibet’s far west has left nine people dead, along with scores of yaks and sheep, authorities and state media said yesterday. Those killed were all residents of the

Chinese woman brought to US as nanny treated like slave

A Minnesota woman is charged with beating and starving a woman she brought from China to work as a nanny, holding her in a state of “slavery or indentured servitude,” a prosecutor

Cities’ expansion plans could house 3.4b people

New areas planned by China’s small cities could accommodate 3.4 billion people by 2030 - or almost half the world’s current population - a target that even Chinese state media

53 arrests following investigation into Shenzhen deadly landslide

China’s Cabinet said Friday that 53 people are in custody in an investigation into a landslide that killed 73 people and left four others missing in the southern city of Shenzhen

2Q economic growth steady, signaling stabilization

China’s economic growth held steady in the most recent quarter, suggesting policies meant to counter the slowdown in the world’s second biggest economy are paying off for the moment. The economy expanded

Top US Navy admiral to visit Beijing, discuss South China Sea

The U.S. Navy’s top admiral is making a three-day visit to China and meeting with his Chinese counterpart at a time when Beijing has rejected an international tribunal’s ruling that invalidated its

Gov’t suspected of hacking into FDIC computers

The Chinese government is believed to have hacked into computers at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in 2010, 2011 and 2013, including the workstation of then-FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, a

Vietnam protests Beijing’s activities in South China Sea

Vietnam yesterday protested China’s recent activities in the disputed South China Sea, saying they seriously violate Vietnamese sovereignty. Chinese state media reported that two Chinese civilian aircraft on Wednesday landed successfully

Beijing says it could declare air zone over South China Sea

China warned other countries yesterday against threatening its security in the South China Sea after an international tribunal handed the Philippines a victory by saying Beijing had no legal basis

Developers retreat from Hong Kong land buys amid slump

Chinese buyers slowed the pace of their Hong Kong land purchases in the first half of 2016, joining the city’s biggest developers on the sidelines and setting the stage for

Study | Price of cleaner air in China? USD213 for five years

Experts have calculated the cost of pollution in China for years, weighing the drag on productivity from medical costs, factory closures and traffic restrictions. Now economists say they know exactly

Tribunal: No basis for Beijing’s vast South China Sea claims

A tribunal ruled in a sweeping decision yesterday that China has no legal basis for claiming much of the South China Sea and had aggravated the seething regional dispute with its large-scale land reclamation

Analysis | China should make its peace with sports gambling

China is mad for football, and the proof is with the bookies. In just the past month, police have seized tens of millions of dollars and arrested more than 500

EU, Chinese leaders to discuss market access, Brexit fallout

European Union and Chinese leaders kick off a summit yesterday at a time of global uncertainty over Brexit and pressure from European companies for better access to China’s market. EU leaders are expected

Aircraft maker lands USD2b order for homegrown ARJ21 jet

China’s state-owned aircraft maker has signed a deal to sell up to 60 of its new regional jets to a leasing company in a deal worth up to USD2.3 billion. In a

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