Health | WHO urges more oversight in wake of vaccine scandal

China must exert stronger oversight over vaccines sold on the private market in the wake of a developing scandal involving expired or improperly stored vaccines, the World Health Organization said

AP investigation | Mattel fought elusive cyber-thieves to get USD3m out of China

The email seemed unremarkable: a routine request by Mattel Inc.’s chief executive for a new vendor payment to China. It was well-timed, arriving on Thursday, April 30, during a tumultuous period

Taiwan | Police officer stabbed day after girl decapitated

A transit police officer was stabbed in the head yesterday, one day after a young girl was decapitated in apparently random knife attacks in Taiwan’s capital. The officer attacked at the

Labor | Public sentencing of protesting workers backfires

Authorities in southwestern China had apparently thought their Cultural Revolution-style public sentencing of eight workers who took to the streets demanding back wages would stand as a warning to others

Beijing orders military to end all paid outside work

China has ordered its armed forces to end all paid outside work within the next three years as part of a push to make the world’s largest standing military more

AP investigation | China launders cash of foreign criminals

Scam artists, drug cartels and gangs from around the world have found a new haven for laundering money: China. The country’s well-developed underground financial networks have caught the attention of

South China Sea tensions | Indonesia rebuffs Beijing’s demand that fishermen be released

Indonesia has refused Chinese demands that it release eight fishermen arrested for illegal fishing in a growing confrontation that analysts say dispels the idea that Indonesia has no stake in

Jakarta: Taiwanese vessels ignored repeated warnings

Indonesia says one of its patrol ships fired shots at two Taiwanese vessels suspected of illegal fishing only after they ignored repeated warnings to leave Indonesian waters in the Strait

Chinese media say 19 killed in coal mine accident

A late-night coal mine accident in northern China has killed 19 miners, Chinese state media reported yesterday. The accident happened on Wednesday night on an underground platform in a mine in

Claims school duped by fake Rothschild scion grips China

A top Chinese university may have been duped by a man who received gifts and attended fundraisers by posing as a scion of the Rothschild banking family, a school official

Great wage boom seen abating with rising unemployment

Rapid wage gains in China that began after the 2009 global financial crisis have begun to fade as the economy slows, and that could create problems for officials trying to

PetroChina income falls to lowest Since 1999 amid oil crash

PetroChina Co. profit tumbled to the lowest since 1999 as falling crude prices crimped earnings at the country’s biggest oil and gas producer. Net income at the Beijing-based explorer dropped 67

South China Sea | Vague Nine-dash line underpins China-Taiwan claim

Although China’s claim to the area of about 3.5 million square kilometers (1.4 million square miles) is based on historical records and geographic proximity, the nine-dash line is a modern

Taiwan | Media tour arranged for Spratly Islands claims

Taiwan flew international media to its largest island holding in the South China Sea yesterday in a bid to reinforce its territorial claims in the disputed and increasingly tense region. Deputy

Fearful of Beijing’s reach abroad, dissidents try risky voyage

Dong Junming was detained several times in his Chinese homeland before he and his family fled to Bangkok in February 2015. A year later, he was preparing to make a

Iron ore billionaire’s comeback king looks past China

After inking a surprise joint venture deal with the world’s top iron ore producer, Fortescue Metals Group Ltd. is setting its long-term sights beyond China, its biggest customer and the

Gov’t to track poorly stored vaccines sold illegally

China’s Food and Drug Administration has ordered local governments to track the whereabouts of poorly refrigerated and probably ineffective vaccines after police detained a woman thought to have sold nearly

Shanghai Composite rallies above 3,000 as margin debt curbs ease

China’s benchmark stock index rallied above the 3,000 level for the first time in two months and turnover surged after policy makers loosened controls on margin lending. The Shanghai Composite Index

Yuan declines after PBOC weakens fixing by most since January

The yuan traded offshore fell for a second day after China’s central bank weakened the daily reference rate by the most since January as a gain in the dollar drove

China’s aim to explore Mars

  China is preparing to launch a Mars probe in 2020, and it is expected to arrive on the red planet in 2021, aerospace expert Ye Peijian has said. “Although we are

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