Media pulls punches on Trump’s escalating rhetoric

While increasingly harsh attacks on China help propel Donald Trump to the Republican presidential nomination, the country’s state media has largely shown restraint, taking only the occasional swipe at the

Trade | Australia rules out sale of cattle empire to Chinese consortium

Australia’s current government will never sell its largest cattle empire to foreigners, the treasurer said yesterday after blocking a takeover by a Chinese-led consortium. Chinese-based Dakang Australia Holdings on Tuesday withdrew

North Korea says waitresses working in China tricked into going to South

North Korea stepped up its calls yesterday for South Korea to return 12 waitresses whom Pyongyang says Seoul abducted from a restaurant in China. Seoul says the waitresses willingly defected to

Dissent | Communist Party places outspoken property tycoon on probation

China’s Communist Party has placed a property mogul and outspoken government critic on probation for a year after he criticized state media for pledging absolute loyalty to the party. The punishment

Chinese police patrol in Italy to make tourists feel safer

Chinese policemen are in Italy to start patrols with Italian officers in Rome and Milan in a two-week experiment. Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said that the aim is to make Chinese

Health | Blood shortages pump life into USD16 billion drugmaker

During the darkest days of China’s stock-market crash last summer, one drugmaker relentlessly defied gravity. Shanghai RAAS Blood Products Co., a seller of treatments made from human blood plasma, rallied to

Internet | Probe casts chill over Baidu’s advertising business

A Chinese government investigation into Baidu Inc.’s search business following the death of a cancer-stricken college student threatens one of its largest sources of advertising revenue. Health and Internet regulators launched

Hong Kong | Hundreds gather to protest editor’s dismissal

China recently denied a request from a U.S. aircraft carrier for a port visit in Hong Kong, the State Department said Friday, in an apparent sign of mounting tension in the disputed South China Sea. 

China lays out firm conditions for improved ties with Japan

China laid out firm conditions over the weekend for improved ties with Japan, telling Tokyo’s visiting foreign minister that there could be “no ambiguity or vacillation” in meeting Beijing’s demands over

Malaysia deports 32 Taiwanese suspects to Guangzhou, draws protest

Taiwanese officials have protested Malaysia’s deportation of 32 of the self-ruled island’s nationals to China this weekend to face wire fraud charges, the latest in a series of disputes that has raised

South China Sea | Philippine front-runner open to talks with Beijing on maritime dispute

Rodrigo Duterte, the tough-talking Davao City mayor who is leading Philippine presidential polls, said he will hold bilateral talks with China to resolve a territorial dispute in the South China

Economy | China factory stabilization shows little need for added stimulus

With new data suggesting that China’s economy stabilized in April amid a property recovery and credit surge, analysts say there is little need for stepped-up monetary easing in the immediate

Beijing passes law tightening controls on foreign nonprofits

China passed a law yesterday tightening controls over foreign non-governmental organizations by subjecting them to close police supervision, a move officials say will help the groups but critics charge is

South China Sea | Chinese forces to join exercises with rival claimants

China said yesterday it will send a warship and special forces for a multinational exercise next month that is also expected to include troops from the Philippines and other rival

Religion | Revered monk is mummified and covered in gold leaf

A revered Buddhist monk in China has been mummified and covered in gold leaf, a practice reserved for holy men in some areas with strong Buddhist traditions. The monk, Fu Hou,

Movie ‘Doctor Strange’ turns Tibetan man into European woman

A Tibetan male character from the “Doctor Strange” comic books presented such a political minefield to Marvel that in the film version they cast a Caucasian woman in the role,

Tibetans in exile re-elect Lobsang Sangay as prime minister

Lobsang Sangay has been re-elected prime minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile in voting held last month, officials announced yesterday, with Sangay saying the election shows that Tibetans in exile “are

Xi urges focus on jobs with economy under growing strain

Chinese President Xi Jinping said more should be done to deal with unemployment as the government tries to curb overcapacity in state-­owned enterprises, anticipating “many hardship” as the world’s second-largest

Taiwan | Fishermen protest Japan’s seizure of boat

Scores of Taiwanese fishermen protested yesterday outside Japan’s representative office in Taiwan to demand an apology over the seizure of one of their fishing boats by the Japanese coast guard. The

Before FM’s arrival, China says ties with Japan improving

With Japan's top diplomat making a rare visit to Beijing later this week, China's Foreign Ministry said yesterday that frequently tense relations with Tokyo have been getting better. Spokeswoman Hua Chun-­ying

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