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China’s inflation accelerated to 2.3 percent in February, driven by a jump in food prices, but fell below the government’s official target for the year. The consumer price rise reported yesterday
Yuan Guiren said at a news conference on the sidelines of the annual national congress that most of the more than 2,500 Chinese universities and colleges focus on theory and
The Philippine president says his country will lease five aircraft from Japan to help the local navy patrol Manila’s territory in the disputed South China Sea. President Benigno Aquino III said
Australia’s prime minister yesterday dismissed public concerns revealed by a U.S. opinion poll about a Chinese company leasing a strategically important port. The Australian newspaper reported that the U.S. State Department
The Bangladesh central bank says it is working to recover some USD100 million allegedly stolen by Chinese hackers from an account at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Authorities have
Nearly every day, the retired factory worker goes to the airline office, riding a series of buses across Beijing to hand deliver a letter. And nearly every day, the letter
The order came down from the highest levels of China’s government, in a handwritten message from President Xi Jinping to officials charged with fixing the country’s crashing stock market: Make
Exports fell 25.4 percent from a year ago to USD126.1 billion, worsening from January’s 11.2 percent contraction, customs data showed yesterday. Imports shrank 13.8 percent to $93.5 billion, an improvement
Seeking to douse fears about China's economy, the finance minister said yestersday that Beijing can manage its rising debt load as it steps up deficit spending to prevent a slide
For investors reacting to China’s annual policy road map, it’s what authorities didn’t say that mattered most. Chinese small-cap stocks rallied after Premier Li Keqiang failed to mention a planned shift
Tibet’s governor said yesterday that a second railway being planned to the Tibetan capital will help bring improvements to the Himalayan region. First announced last week, the 1,800-kilometer line would link
A gas leak at a coal mine in northeast China has killed 12 miners, state media reported yesterday. The accident happened Sunday at a mine in the Jilin province city of
Twelve Chinese families with relatives aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 have filed a lawsuit in a Beijing court, one day before the deadline for pursuing litigation against the carrier. The plane
“An irrational and overheated sentiment have emerged in the Shanghai real estate market, and these sentiments have raised home prices,” Han Zheng, the city’s Communist Party chief, said at briefing
how to bridge a stubborn political divide. The proposal for a transit link across the 180-kilometer Taiwan Strait to the self-ruled island was referred to only in passing in the draft
A second man linked to a Hong Kong publisher of books critical of Chinese leaders has returned to the city from the mainland, according to Hong Kong police. Cheung Chi Ping
China’s President Xi Jinping has pledged to contain any moves by Taiwan toward formal independence in his first public remarks on the issue since the self-governing island democracy elected a president
China’s top economic planning official yesterday said it is impossible that the Chinese economy would have a “hard landing” — or a sharp slowdown after a period of robust growth —
China’s ruling Communist Party said yesterday that it punished nearly 300,000 officials for corruption last year. The party’s official watchdog body said that 200,000 of those were given light punishments and 82,000
Chinese leaders are expected to cut their growth target to allow more flexibility in overhauling their slowing, state-dominated economy when their legislature meets this week. But they are unlikely to unveil significant new reforms. The
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