Alibaba agrees to buy Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the e-commerce giant headed by billionaire Jack Ma, agreed to buy Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post and other affiliated media assets as the Internet tycoon follows in the

Who’s investigating fake goods? Fake investigators

Multinational corporations doing business in China face a losing battle when it comes to keeping copies of their products off the market: The anti-counterfeiting industry they rely on is plagued with fraud,

Shampoo case shows perils of honesty in fight against fakes

On paper, the reports were perfect, brilliant parries in the fight against fakes in China. There were phone numbers, dates, official agencies, photographs and a nice haul: over 120,000 packages of

Severe haze hovers over Beijing on Day 2 of red alert

Beijing residents stayed indoors, schools were closed and limits on cars, factories and construction sites kept pollution from spiking even higher yesterday, the second of three days of restrictions triggered

Smog crisis idles factories, boosts travel

Factories in Beijing that make goods from cement to train cars were shut down to help ease the Chinese capital’s pollution crisis. But it was a boon for some businesses,

Briefs | Inflation edges higher as food costs rise

Hukou reform | Parents go to court seeking to register 2nd children

Wan Changru’s 6-year-old daughter collects passes — for her dance school, English lessons and other extra-curricular classes, anything bearing her name that she can pretend is an identity card. The girl

Land rights |13 injured in attack on government office

Masked men attacked a government office in western China, smashing vehicles and equipment and leaving 13 people injured in a regional dispute over farmland, local authorities and state media said yesterday. The

Beijing issues 1st smog red alert, urging schools to close

Beijing issued its first-ever red alert for smog yesterday, urging schools to close and invoking restrictions on factories and traffic that will keep half of the city’s vehicles off the

Mainland fugitive returns from US amid crackdown

One of China’s most wanted fugitives voluntarily returned from the U.S. on Saturday in a new victory for the government’s campaign to track down corruption suspects who have fled abroad, the ruling

Xi pledges USD60 billion to African development

China’s president pledged USD60 billion to development in Africa on Friday, as part of what Chinese and African leaders have called “win-win cooperation.” President Xi Jinping made the announcement to rousing applause

Beijing schools suspend outdoor activity on smog, Xinhua says

Elementary and middle schools in Beijing will suspend outdoor activities after China’s capital issued an orange alert for smog this week, according to the official Xinhua News Agency. The suspension also

South China Sea | New airstrips a potential headache for neighbors, US

China’s campaign of island building in the South China Sea might soon quadruple the number of airstrips available to the People’s Liberation Army in the highly contested and strategically vital region. That could be

Former university admissions officer on trial for bribe taking

The Nanjing Intermediate People’s Court announced the trial against Cai Rongsheng, the former admissions head at Renmin University in Beijing, but the panel was not immediately available yesterday to offer

4 sentenced to death over miner murders

A court in northern China has sentenced four people to be executed over the deaths of coal miners who were slain in a plot to collect compensation. The four were found

Hong Kong | In crowded city, dead find no space to rest in peace

In tightly packed Hong Kong, the dead are causing a problem for the living. After Chui Yuen-sing’s mother died in April, she was cremated and her ashes put in storage while

Officials criticize French journalist’s Xinjiang report

Chinese officials yesterday accused a French journalist of political bias for her reporting on Beijing’s efforts to equate ethnic violence in the western Muslim region of Xinjiang with global terrorism. In

Bereaved only child parents protest in Beijing

Bereaved parents of only children staged protests in Beijing this week seeking greater compensation, in a sign of one of the far-reaching consequences of China’s recently scrapped one-child policy, the

Party vows to keep yuan at reasonable level after SDR inclusion

China welcomes the inclusion of the yuan in the Special Drawing Rights basket and vows to dissolve risks and improve the mechanism to orderly push for the currency’s convertibility under

Blast of fresh air quiets calls for Beijing mayor’s head

A cold front that swept choking smog from northern China couldn’t have come sooner for Beijing’s mayor. After days of hazardous pollution forced people to wear masks and huddle indoors, residents

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