Economy | China announces measures to boost sagging exports

China’s Cabinet has approved measures to boost exports in a move that might inflame tensions with Western trading partners that accuse Beijing of flooding their markets with steel and other goods

Views on China | Why China is prone to bubbles

Chinese markets have rarely looked more like Vegas casinos. In recent weeks, investors have driven up trading volumes in China to astronomical levels, betting on everything from rebar to eggs. China traded

Mining | Freeport-McMoRan sells mining stake for USD2.65 billion to Chinese company

The sale to China Molybdenum Co. unloads its interest in one of the world’s largest copper and cobalt mines, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Freeport-McMoRan is also in negotiations with China Molybdenum to

South China Sea | US warship challenges island claims

The U.S. Navy sent its third warship in less than seven months into China-claimed waters of the South China Sea as tensions rise ahead of an international court’s ruling on

Beijing hopes for progress with new Philippine government

China said yesterday that it hopes to work with the Philippines’ new government to resolve territorial disputes in the South China Sea, but insisted the onus is on Manila to lower tensions. Beijing hopes

Entertainment | Thousands flood Shanghai Disney and it won’t open for weeks

Still a month away from its official opening, Walt Disney Co.’s latest theme park resort in Shanghai is already a popular destination attracting thousands of Chinese. A Disney store - the

Fujian | 34 dead, four missing after landslide

Rescue teams have recovered the bodies of 34 victims while four people were still listed as missing yesterday following a landslide at the site of a hydropower project in southern

South China Sea | Over 200 Filipinos vote on disputed island

More than 200 Filipinos voted on a Philippine-occupied island in the disputed South China Sea yesterday, with the mayor saying the elections proved Manila has sovereignty in the far-flung off- shore

Xinhua: Investigation finds Baidu’s objectivity compromised by profit model

The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) demanded an overhaul of China’s leading search-engine Baidu following an investigation. The CAC said Baidu relied excessively on profits from paid listings in search results,

Disney lifts veil in sneak preview of USD5.5b Shanghai park

Walt Disney Co. employees and guests received a sneak preview of Shanghai Disneyland over the weekend, as the world’s largest entertainment company gets set for next month’s official opening of

LA’s Getty Center recreates Cave Temples of Dunhuang

For a thousand years China’s Cave Temples of Dunhuang were a popular traveler’s rest stop, marketplace and religious shrine on the fabled Silk Road. Now they are coming to Los Angeles, both

Landslide buries 33 builders; eight rescued

Rescuers yesterday searched for 33 construction workers missing in a landslide at the site of a hydropower project following days of heavy rain in southern China. Eight other workers were pulled

Gucci quits US anti-counterfeiting group after Alibaba joins

Gucci America has quit the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, the second defection since the Washington, D.C.-based group allowed Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba to become a member in April. Michael Kors walked out

Trade shrinks in April in troubling sign for economy

China’s trade shrank in April in a sign government stimulus is failing to jolt the world’s second-largest economy out of a prolonged slowdown. Exports contracted by 1.8 percent from a year earlier

Turbulence injures 17 on Indonesia-Hong Kong flight

Seventeen passengers and crew were injured when a Hong Kong Airlines’ flight ran into severe turbulence early Saturday on the way from Indonesia’s resort Bali island to Hong Kong. The Airbus A330-200

Disney CEO meets Chinese president ahead of park opening

The head of entertainment giant Disney had a rare official meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping yesterday, a month before the opening of its USD5.5 billion theme park in the

Beijing tightens hospital oversight following man’s death

China’s government health care regulator yesterday ordered hospitals not to outsource medical services or promote false advertising amid a public outcry over the death of a young man who received expensive

Some howl over Alibaba’s place in anti-counterfeiting group

The prospect of sitting in a Hyatt Regency ballroom in Florida and listening to Jack Ma, founder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba, deliver the keynote for the International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition’s

South China Sea | After ships and planes, Chinese singers assert maritime claims

China’s military has dispatched ships and planes — even constructed new islands to assert its maritime claims. Now it’s deploying a new set of tools to uphold Chinese sovereignty: Magicians,

Courts | Apple loses lawsuit over iPhone name

The court said Apple failed to prove iPhone was a “famous brand” in China before the local company applied for a trademark in 2007, an official legal newspaper reported. Such

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