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A court in northern China sentenced a former vice minister of public security to 15 years in jail yesterday for accepting bribes, state media reported. Li Dongsheng is the latest senior
The Philippine Supreme Court yesterday declared as constitutional a defense pact that allows American forces, warships and planes to temporarily base in local military camps, in a boost to U.S.
Barely more than a week into 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping is having a rough time of it, with challenges ranging from a plummeting stock market to new provocations from
China’s Cabinet has created a new department to coordinate financial and economic affairs, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the country’s leaders seek to restore investor confidence
A key gathering opened yesterday in Islamabad in which four countries — Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States — hope to lay the roadmap to peace for the war-shattered
Wong, who currently covers technology at The Wall Street Journal, will be based in Beijing as the AP's greater China news director. In that role, she will oversee coverage in
A village in central China has abruptly demolished a statue of the country’s founder, Mao Zedong, after images of the structure covered in gold paint and looming 37 meters high
The latest trigger was currency jitters, but Thursday’s plunge in Chinese stocks was just one in a series of aftershocks from last year’s boom and bust that could shake markets
China’s consumer inflation edged up 1.6 percent in December year on year as food prices rose, official data showed Saturday. The inflation rate reported by the National Bureau of Statistics was up
China has formally arrested a Guangzhou labor organizer and three other people authorities had been holding amid a crackdown on worker activism, Reuters reported, citing two lawyers. Zeng Feiyang, director of
A Hong Kong bookseller whose disappearance has inflamed concerns about growing Chinese interference in the city told his wife in a video message that he traveled to the mainland on his own
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged China to end “business as usual” with North Korea after the isolated nation conducted its fourth nuclear test. Kerry told reporters last week that
As a boy in China in the 1970s, Jason Zhuang Xiangsong was captivated by comics based on the legendary Monkey King and dreamed of creating a Chinese version of Astro
When the U.S. wanted to show the world it didn’t recognize what it called China’s “excessive” territorial claims in disputed waters of the South China Sea this fall, it sent
The United States said that China’s recent test of a newly completed runway on one of seven islands Beijing has constructed in the disputed South China Sea raises tensions and
Think bourbon is hot? It’s got nothing on baijiu. Yet chances are good you haven’t even heard of baijiu, the high proof, pungent, spicy, savory, sweet traditional liquor of China. It
Environmental authorities in Beijing say air quality improved in 2015, a year in which they issued the city’s first two red smog alerts and showed a greater willingness to disrupt
Chinese parents who had children outside the country’s one-child policy protested outside the family planning commission yesterday in an attempt to have their fines canceled now that all couples are
Hong Kong’s leader said yesterday that he was “highly concerned” about the recent disappearances of five people associated with a publishing company in the city that specializes in titles critical of
Shanghai’s stock index plunged nearly 7 percent yesterday, sparking a halt in trading of Chinese shares, after weak manufacturing data and Middle East tensions weighed on Asian markets. The Shanghai Composite Index
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