In crackdown on celebrity, China bans stars’ kids from shows

China is banning the children of famous entertainers from appearing on hugely popular reality shows, as the country continues efforts to try to prevent the manufacture of child stars. The ban

Twitter users concerned over executive appointment

Chinese Twitter users have expressed concerns over the company’s appointment of a China regional executive who has a background working with the country’s military and state security apparatus. Since last week,

500 kids sick at school built on toxic soil

Chinese authorities are investigating a report that close to 500 students became sick with illnesses including cancer at a school built near former chemical plants in eastern China. State broadcaster CCTV

South China Sea | Chinese navy dispatches military plane to disputed man-made island

China’s navy dispatched a military plane to one of the country’s manmade islands in the disputed South China Sea, the Defense Ministry said, in what is believed to be the

Hong Kong | Analysis: BT will prosper if Li Ka-shing has to hang up on UK deal

Europe’s antitrust cop Margarethe Vestager has moved the goalposts. Telecoms, cable and pay-TV bosses in Britain will have to revisit M&A strategies. Expect new attempted pairings to emerge and for

Has China’s slowdown bottomed out?

China’s economic growth slowed in the first quarter to 6.7 percent, largely in line with expectations, but its slowest pace since the global financial crisis. Data reported Friday showed that the annualized

Beijing criticizes Taiwan for releasing fraud suspects

A Chinese spokesman criticized Taiwan after the self-ruled island released 20 fraud suspects just one day after they were deported from Malaysia, citing a lack of evidence. China and Taiwan have been

Hong Kong | Tiananmen Museum faces closure threat

The world’s only museum chronicling the Chinese government’s brutal 1989 crackdown on student protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square say it faces closure because of a legal dispute, its Hong Kong

HK Disneyland cuts staff after attendance declines

Hong Kong Disneyland cut jobs after sustaining its first loss in four years amid a slump in mainland visitors to the city. Radio Television Hong Kong reported Friday that Walt Disney

South China Sea | US reveals joint patrols with Philippines, upsets Beijing

In a military buildup certain to inflame tensions with China, the United States said yesterday it has been conducting joint South China Sea patrols — and eventually will conduct air patrols — with the

Live-streaming sites offer chance to gain cash, fame

China’s live-streaming sites have become a burgeoning cottage industry, offering money-making opportunities and even stardom to their mostly female hosts and an entertaining new alternative for millions of viewers to online dramas and

Australia premier praises China ties, skirts touchy subjects

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull hailed business ties with China but skirted sensitive political issues yesterday, on the first day of an official visit to his country’s key trade partner. In a speech to business leaders in the financial hub of Shanghai, Turnbull praised a bilateral

Despite court ruling, gay rights movement makes gains

For years, Chen Tiantian could only read about the gay rights movement in faraway places. She knew that there were activists in Beijing and a vibrant community in Shanghai, and

Chinese pressure seen in Taiwanese deportations from Kenya

The deportation of nearly four dozen Taiwanese from Kenya to China, where they’re being investigated over wire fraud allegations, is focusing new attention on Beijing’s willingness to assert its sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan,

South China Sea | Beijing summons G7 diplomats to protest ministers’ statement

Beijing summoned diplomats from the Group of 7 industrialized countries to protest a statement from their foreign ministers criticizing China’s island-building activities in the disputed South China Sea, the Foreign

Spain court releases two ICBC executives with conditions

A Spanish court has ordered the conditional release of two executives of China’s state-owned ICBC bank in Madrid that were among six arrested in February in a money laundering and

Chinese tourists are turning Japanese

China’s overseas tourism bonanza is starting to resemble the unleashing of Japanese visitors on the world following the yen’s appreciation in the mid-1980s. Except, unlike the Japanese boom that began to

China report sounds alarm on groundwater pollution

More than 80 percent of China’s underground water drawn from relatively shallow wells used by farms, factories and mostly rural households is unsafe for drinking because of pollution, a government

Taiwan | Taipei says Kenya guards used tear gas to force deportations

Armed Kenyan guards used tear gas to dislodge a group of Taiwanese citizens from a detention center and force them to board a flight to China, a top Taiwanese diplomat

Taiwan-USA | Navy officer accused of espionage; now held in Navy brig

The U.S. military has charged a Taiwan born Navy officer with espionage for allegedly passing military secrets to China or Taiwan, U.S. defense officials said yesterday. A Navy document that describes

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