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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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