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
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
Chinese women are being taken on roller coaster ride by social media, getting bombarded on one side by extreme expectations about physical beauty while getting support for female independence in
Growth in developing East Asia and the Pacific is expected to remain resilient despite the slowdown in China and a gloomy global outlook, the World Bank said yesterday. The U.S.-led development
China’s stocks rose the most this month, led by commodity producers and financial companies, amid signs of a pick-up in industrial demand. The Shanghai Composite Index climbed 1.6 percent, with a
A Chinese arbitration panel held a hearing yesterday in what is believed to be the country’s first transgender employment discrimination case, according to the lawyer in the case. A ruling by
Chinese regulators are investigating Nanjing Easy Richness Financial Information Service Co., a regional peer-to-peer lender that has raised at least 10 billion yuan (USD1.6 billion) from investors, people familiar with
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
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.
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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),
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
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
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
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
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