Economy | Billionaires may be closer to taking property arms private

Two of China’s largest developers took steps that moved them closer to potentially switching their stock market listings from Hong Kong to China, where their top executives have said they

Xi warns against religious infiltration from abroad

Chinese President Xi Jinping says that China must be on guard against nefarious religious influences from abroad. His comments over the weekend follow a tightening of religious space that has seen

Beijing auto show highlights SUVs in slowing market

Automakers showcased a new generation of luxurious SUVs at China’s biggest auto show of the year to lure buyers in its cooling, crowded market. Honda Motor Co. yesterday held world debuts

Thailand’s hospital targets Chinese couples wanting second child

Revenue from hospital operations may rise at least 20 percent this year, up from 18 percent expansion in 2015, and the total number of beds will grow from around 300

India revokes visa for Germany-based Uighur activist

India has revoked a tourist visa given to a Germany-based ethnic Uighur activist to attend an upcoming conference at the headquarters of the Tibetan government-in-exile in northern India, an official

Great ball of money is rushing into commodities futures

Chinese speculators have a new obsession: the commodities market. Trading in futures on everything from steel reinforcement bars and hot-rolled coils to cotton and polyvinyl chloride has soared this week, prompting

Blocked content shows Apple not immune to China regulators

China has shut down Apple Inc.’s iTunes Movies and iBooks services, serving notice that the world’s most valuable company is no longer immune to the long reach of Beijing’s powerful

Police stop Western diplomats from visiting dissident

A Chinese lawyer said police stopped five Western diplomats who were trying to visit her in Beijing on Saturday after she had been prevented from travelling to the United States

Xi moves to take more direct command over military

Bolstering his status as China’s most powerful leader in decades, Chinese President Xi Jinping has assumed a more direct role as head of the country’s powerful armed forces with the

South China Sea | Defense Ministry appears to confirm new missile test

China’s Defense Ministry appeared yesterday to confirm a test of an intercontinental missile over disputed waters in the South China Sea. A three-sentence statement posted on the ministry’s website posed the question of whether China had fired an ICBM in

Hong Kong | Journalists question dismissal of top editor

Journalists’ unions in Hong Kong said yesterday they were troubled by the dismissal of a veteran editor of a newspaper that published a report on the Panama Papers document leak revealing offshore business

Trade | Regulators tell banks to lend to expand steel exports

The latest order to finance exports is part of instructions from the Chinese central bank and financial regulators to lenders to support the overhaul of state- owned steel and coal industries. Beijing

New Zealand tourist industry signed multi-million-dollar deal with China

New Zealand tourism chiefs were celebrating yesterday after the mountain resort town of Queenstown won a major contract to host 10,000 salespeople of a Chinese company, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Official spending on perks well under budget last year

Amid an ongoing austerity drive, China’s once-lavish government spending on overseas travel, vehicles and entertainment was almost 15 percent below budget last year, the Finance Ministry said yesterday. Just 5.37 billion yuan (USD826

Hong Kong malls search for new identity after golden decade ends

After 27 years of serving rib-eye steak and apple pie to American cuisine lovers in Hong Kong, Dan Ryan’s Chicago Grill has closed its doors at the city’s Pacific Place mall. Taking

Electric carmaker enters US market by selling buses

The Chinese automaker that sold more electric cars last year than Tesla, Nissan or GM is taking a back road into the American market on a battery-powered bus. Detouring around the

Three arrested over killing of British teacher in Shenzhen

Chinese police say they have arrested a woman and two men suspected in the killing of a Hong Kong-based British language instructor found dead in southern China. Officers in the city of

Technology | Crowded smartphone market heads for an epic shakeout

The startup Dakele looked pretty smart when it released a phone in China four years ago. The market was doubling annually, and the company put brand-name components inside a device

Anti-graft measures extended to officials’ families

The move follows revelations in the Panama Papers document leak showing family members of eight past or present leading officials owned shell companies registered abroad. While no Chinese laws are known

Man gets death for selling documents on encryption

A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for selling 150,000 classified documents that revealed key secrets about military and government data encryption to an unidentified foreign spy agency, state

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