Beijing investigating North Korean bank, report says

Chinese authorities are investigating a North Korean bank suspected of financing its government’s imports of goods that might be used by the North’s nuclear weapons program, a South Korean newspaper

Japan vows to watch Chinese warplane activity closely

Japan’s top government spokesman warned China yesterday against expanding its military activity to the skies over disputed East China Sea islands after eight Chinese warplanes flew near the area over

Japan’s leader vows to accelerate Abenomics on China slowdown

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged to accelerate his mix of policies to prop up Japan’s economic recovery and speed up parliamentary approval of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact. In his

China begins operating world’s largest radio telescope

The world’s largest radio telescope began searching for signals from stars and galaxies and, perhaps, extraterrestrial life yesterday in a project demonstrating China’s rising ambitions in space and its pursuit

Leung pledges more land for cheaper Hong Kong housing

Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chun-Ying pledged to provide more land to build apartments for low-income people in a bid to lower housing prices in the world’s least-affordable city. Less than

Li Keqiang arrives in Cuba for official visit

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has arrived in Cuba’s capital for an official visit designed to deepen commercial and political ties between the two countries. Li was greeted at Jose Marti International

World Heritage | Section of Great Wall marred in name of restoration

Chinese officials are being pilloried over the smoothing-over of a crumbling but much-loved 700-year-old section of the Great Wall of China — a UNESCO World Heritage Site — in the

Court sentences activist lawyer to 12 years on fraud charges

A Chinese lawyer who defended activists and others involved in politically sensitive cases was sentenced to 12 years in prison yesterday on fraud charges, his lawyers said, in what is

MH370 | Investigators cast doubt on catastrophic fire evidence

Accident investigators yesterday cast doubt on the possibility that blackened debris found on Madagascar is evidence of a catastrophic fire aboard the missing Malaysian airliner that went down more than

Taiwan protests exclusion from UN fisheries conference

Taiwan has protested its exclusion from a United Nations conference on the global fishing industry, allegedly at the behest of chief rival China, the official Central News Agency reported. CNA said

Samsung suffers backlash in China over smartphone response

Liu Jingtang was a Samsung loyalist. The Shanghai technology consultant traded up steadily through its smartphones to the new Note 7. But Liu’s devotion was shaken by the Korean tech

Cambodia deports 63 Chinese, Taiwanese over alleged web scam

Cambodia has deported 50 Chinese and 13 Taiwanese citizens to China over an alleged internet scam, complying with demands from Beijing, a senior police official said yesterday. The suspects were flown

Hong Kong | Outsider lawmaker vows shakeup of vested interests

The death threats began arriving soon after pro-democracy candidate and environmentalist Eddie Chu won a stunning Hong Kong legislative election victory earlier this month. Middlemen, Chu won’t name them so as to

Beijing film festival pushes for end to gender inequality

In films, women and girls are much more likely to take off their clothes than male actors and to be scantily clad in the first place, studies show. Less than

Cambodian court gives 2 Chinese life in prison for drugs

A Cambodian court has sentenced two Chinese nationals to life in prison after convicting them of production and trafficking of heroin and methamphetamine in one of the country’s biggest drug

Bloomberg Interview Stiglitz grades Trump F on economics, cites China trade risk

The U.S. economy would be a big loser if Donald Trump wins the presidential election and imposes new tariffs on imports from China, according to Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. The end

Voyeurism makes the transition to cell phones

Fame may last a mere 15 minutes, but the tools democratizing it are here to stay. That’s the call Credit Suisse Group AG analysts make in a note initiating coverage on

Opinion | Views on China: Housing gets scarily expensive

For many years, China’s authorities took a Goldilocks approach to housing prices: They wanted a market that was neither too hot nor too cold, and took measures as needed to

China’s Internet celebrity economy bigger than cinema

The nascent “online influencer” industry is expected to embrace a boom, as self-made Internet celebrities, brokers and investors gather for new business opportunities at the ongoing World Influencer Forum in

Canadian man released by China treated ‘based on law’

China said Friday that a Canadian citizen it detained for two years over spying allegations was allowed to leave the country after a local court issued a verdict in his case,

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