Blocked content shows Apple not immune to China regulators

China has shut down Apple Inc.’s iTunes Movies and iBooks services, serving notice that the world’s most valuable company is no longer immune to the long reach of Beijing’s powerful

Police stop Western diplomats from visiting dissident

A Chinese lawyer said police stopped five Western diplomats who were trying to visit her in Beijing on Saturday after she had been prevented from travelling to the United States

Xi moves to take more direct command over military

Bolstering his status as China’s most powerful leader in decades, Chinese President Xi Jinping has assumed a more direct role as head of the country’s powerful armed forces with the

South China Sea | Defense Ministry appears to confirm new missile test

China’s Defense Ministry appeared yesterday to confirm a test of an intercontinental missile over disputed waters in the South China Sea. A three-sentence statement posted on the ministry’s website posed the question of whether China had fired an ICBM in

Hong Kong | Journalists question dismissal of top editor

Journalists’ unions in Hong Kong said yesterday they were troubled by the dismissal of a veteran editor of a newspaper that published a report on the Panama Papers document leak revealing offshore business

Trade | Regulators tell banks to lend to expand steel exports

The latest order to finance exports is part of instructions from the Chinese central bank and financial regulators to lenders to support the overhaul of state- owned steel and coal industries. Beijing

New Zealand tourist industry signed multi-million-dollar deal with China

New Zealand tourism chiefs were celebrating yesterday after the mountain resort town of Queenstown won a major contract to host 10,000 salespeople of a Chinese company, Xinhua News Agency reported.

Official spending on perks well under budget last year

Amid an ongoing austerity drive, China’s once-lavish government spending on overseas travel, vehicles and entertainment was almost 15 percent below budget last year, the Finance Ministry said yesterday. Just 5.37 billion yuan (USD826

Hong Kong malls search for new identity after golden decade ends

After 27 years of serving rib-eye steak and apple pie to American cuisine lovers in Hong Kong, Dan Ryan’s Chicago Grill has closed its doors at the city’s Pacific Place mall. Taking

Electric carmaker enters US market by selling buses

The Chinese automaker that sold more electric cars last year than Tesla, Nissan or GM is taking a back road into the American market on a battery-powered bus. Detouring around the

Three arrested over killing of British teacher in Shenzhen

Chinese police say they have arrested a woman and two men suspected in the killing of a Hong Kong-based British language instructor found dead in southern China. Officers in the city of

Technology | Crowded smartphone market heads for an epic shakeout

The startup Dakele looked pretty smart when it released a phone in China four years ago. The market was doubling annually, and the company put brand-name components inside a device

Anti-graft measures extended to officials’ families

The move follows revelations in the Panama Papers document leak showing family members of eight past or present leading officials owned shell companies registered abroad. While no Chinese laws are known

Man gets death for selling documents on encryption

A Chinese man has been sentenced to death for selling 150,000 classified documents that revealed key secrets about military and government data encryption to an unidentified foreign spy agency, state

China warns of foreign spies with ‘Dangerous Love’ campaign

China is marking National Security Education Day with a poster warning young female government workers about dating handsome foreigners, who could turn out to have secret agendas. Titled “Dangerous Love,” the 16-panel,

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

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