Views on China | How bad is China’s debt problem, really?

For months now, China’s regulators have been warning about the dangers of rapidly expanding credit and the need to deleverage. With new plans to clean up bad loans at the

Hong Kong emerges as hub for creating offshore companies

In 2009, Jasmine Li, whose grandfather was the fourth most powerful politician in China at the time, donned a floral Carolina Herrera gown and debuted at a ball in Paris.

Taiwan | Ma visits island, urges peace in contested waters

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou called for peace in Asia’s contested waters on Saturday as he visited a small island in the East ChinaSea, one of his last symbolic foreign policy moves

South China Sea tensions | Vietnam demands that China move oil rig

Vietnam demanded Friday that China remove an oil exploration rig from an area of the South China Sea where their border is still being demarcated, and said Beijing’s unilateral actions were complicating regional tensions. The

Analysis | Xi seen as easily surviving revelations in Panama Papers

For graft-busting Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, the Panama Papers revelations that show his brother-in-law and relatives of two other members of the party's elite inner circle owned offshore

Taiwan | Prosecutors charge five builders in earthquake deaths

Prosecutors in Taiwan are charging five builders with negligence after an apartment building collapsed during a February earthquake, killing 115 people. The Tainan district prosecutor’s office said yesterday the building’s developer,

Panama Papers | Leaks name prominent Communist political families

The Panama Papers document leak reported by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists names family members of eight present or past members of China's all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee, including the

Beijing restricts trade with North Korea over nuclear tests

  China has banned most imports of North Korean coal and iron ore, the country’s main exports, in a significant increase in pressure on the North under U.N. sanctions against its

Property | Homelink said to seek funds at USD6.2 billion value

Beijing Homelink Real Estate Brokerage Co. is seeking to raise funds in a financing round that will give the property company a valuation of about 40 billion yuan (USD6.2 billion),

Shandong | Rescuers save 3-year-old boy who fell into well

Rescuers in eastern China have performed a dramatic televised rescue of a three-year-old boy who fell about 10 meters into a narrow well. The boy had been playing when he slipped and

AP Exclusive | Bangladesh failing to spare millions from arsenic poisoning

For more than two decades, Nasima Begum and her family have been drawing water from a tube well painted red to warn Bangladeshi villagers that it’s tainted by arsenic, knowing

China military to prosecute former top general over bribery

  A former top Chinese general will be tried in a military court on charges he took bribes, the county’s military said yesterday, in what is believed to be the highest-level

Panama papers | FAQ: A look at offshore accounts used to hide wealth and avoid taxes

Privacy has a price. For the super-wealthy, it can also have a big payoff. The use of offshore accounts and favorable laws in certain countries can allow rich individuals and families

Panama Papers | Reports on leaders’ finances a bugbear for Beijing

Reports based on millions of leaked documents say relatives of past and present Chinese officials, including the brother-in-law of current President Xi Jinping, opened overseas shell companies of the type

China, Pakistan push back on offshore revelations as Syria named

China denounced the so-called Panama Papers exposing shell companies as part of a conspiracy and Pakistan’s prime minister denied his family did anything wrong as the revelations spurred calls by

From limos to junk, quirky museums tell Beijing’s history

Stuffed into a tiny room off an alleyway are items that Wang Jinming readily admits were put out with the garbage: Paper string, a needle holder, a metal pancake maker

Xi, Abe miss opportunity for talks as China-Japan tensions grow

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, standing only a row apart, chose not to speak to each other during a group photo session at a nuclear summit

Man sentenced to death for killing 9 in nursing home

A man who killed nine people and injured nine others in a Chinese nursing home has been sentenced to death, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. Luo Renchu had gathered

China builds an empire of electricity with Australia as target

It generates more revenue than Apple Inc. and Boeing Co. combined and serves one in seven people on the planet. Meet State Grid Corp. of China, a company that may

Call for Xi’s resignation sparks concerns in Beijing

Beijing’s response to an anonymous letter posted online last month, which called for the resignation of President Xi Jinping, “has been anything but dismissive,” writes an article in The New

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