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Macau,
Each year, some 3,000 of China’s most powerful officials descend on Beijing for about 10 days of parliamentary pageantry known as the National People’s Congress (NPC). While the country’s top legislature
Major Chinese consumer-drone maker DJI has its eyes on the potentially lucrative Japanese market after regulations on drones were relaxed here three months ago. DJI Japan General Manager Allen Wu launched
Of the dozens of investments that Alibaba has made over the past few years, purchasing a stake in China’s Caixin Media could be the smartest of all. Media reports today say
A Tibetan Buddhist monk set himself on fire and died in a protest against Chinese rule, in the first such action of its kind this year, a U.S. government-funded radio
A Philippine official said yesterday that he recently spotted five suspected Chinese coast guard and navy ships at a disputed atoll in the South China Sea and fears Beijing will
China’s President Xi Jinping has collected titles ranging from National Security Council chief to good old “Uncle Xi.” Along the way, he’s used state media to make his views known
Struck by a sudden inspiration for a business plan while cooped up in a room at a southern China detention center, entrepreneur Liu Minghui turned to the only people nearby
A Hong Kong bookseller missing for two months has reappeared in an interview with Chinese media, insisting he wasn’t abducted and instead crossed illegally into mainland China to help authorities with
A leading pastor in an eastern Chinese province where authorities have been cracking down on churches has been barred from the pulpit and removed as head of the provincial state-sanctioned
A court in Guangdong province has jailed 24 people for fraudulent fund-raising of over 9.9 billion yuan (about USD1.5 billion), cheating more than 230,000 victims, mostly elderly people, from 2002
The Philippines asked China yesterday to respect an upcoming decision by an international arbitration tribunal on Beijing’s claim to most of the South China Sea to show it does not regard itself as “above
China’s premier told visiting U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew yesterday his government is pressing ahead with painful reforms to shrink bloated coal and steel industries that are a drag on
A pro-democracy candidate won a Hong Kong weekend by-election while a rival from a radical pro-independence group arrested on riot charges placed a surprising third in a vote seen as a measure
Chinese police are investigating a detained Hong Kong bookseller for allegedly selling books by mail illegally in mainland China, an official Chinese newspaper said yesterday, the latest twist in a case that has raised concerns over erosion
A knife-wielding man slashed 10 children outside a primary school in southern China before killing himself yesterday, police said. None of the children suffered life-threatening injuries during the attack in the southern city
China’s state media have criticized celebrities for attending an event in northeastern India with members of the Tibetan government-in-exile, adding to Chinese authorities’ warnings that actors and singers must “serve
A Chinese husband and wife who led a Christian congregation that opposed a government campaign to remove crosses atop churches have been given long prison sentences for illegal activities, including
The three directors of the opening film of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) “Trevisa,” produced by Johnnie To and Yau Nai-hoi, have revealed to the Times that working
The 40th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) kicks off with a bang with “Trivisa,” an innovative crime drama produced by Hong Kong’s legendary Johnnie To, and mainland director Yang
The Chinese media have never had much freedom to pursue muckraking stories, or even to dutifully report the facts. Now, President Xi Jinping is going to extraordinary lengths to rein
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