Far from weakening the Chinese military, the troop cuts announced by President Xi Jinping will help counter U.S. advantages and improve the country’s ability to project force further from its
Why can’t a woman be more like a man?” asks Henry Higgins in “My Fair Lady.” Women might point out that, since too many men seem to trust a mysterious
Qiao Jianjun seemed a model bureaucrat: strict on expense accounts, a stickler for rules. But the director of a sprawling state enterprise that controlled grain stockpiles for a chunk of
China will hold a massive military parade through the heart of its capital, but ordinary folks can’t watch. Authorities obsessed with security and leery of any possible hitches will virtually shut
Hong Kong teenage student leader Joshua Wong is set to face trial on charges relating to his role in storming government headquarters nearly a year ago in a protest that
China and South Korea agreed to hold a three-way summit with Japan in Seoul in late October or early November, Yonhap News said. Chinese President Xi Jinping and South Korean President
The Committee to Protect Journalists is urging Chinese authorities to release a reporter accused of spreading false information on the country's stock market meltdown, calling it the latest act of
A special edition swipe card for Taiwan's mass transit featuring the clothed image of a Japanese porn star sold out within hours overnight via a telephone hotline, despite a storm
A chemical factory exploded in eastern China, killing one person, a state-run local news website reported yesterday, nearly three weeks after massive chemical warehouse explosions in the country exposed lax
Russian leader Vladimir Putin, South Korean President Park Geun-hye and U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon shine at the top of China's guest list at this week's grand commemorations of the
A leading journalist at one of China’s top financial publications has admitted to causing “panic and disorder” in the stock market, in a public confession carried on CCTV, the state
People recently punished in China’s campaign against online rumors include those who circulated an inflated death toll in the Tianjin blasts and who alleged a man committed suicide because of
Chinese authorities took Li Yifei, chairwoman of hedge fund Man Group Plc’s China unit, into custody to assist with a police probe into market volatility, according to a person familiar
The death toll rose yesterday to 158 from massive explosions of chemical warehouses in the Chinese port of Tianjin, where cleanup crews were grappling with cyanide contamination caused by the
Chinese veteran Sun Yibai doesn’t have much time for the Communist Party’s claim to have led China to victory against Japan in World War II. “The Communist Party didn’t fight Japan,”
Chinese President Xi Jinping signed a prisoner amnesty as part of commemorations of World War II’s end that could see thousands of inmates, including war veterans and juveniles, released. The signing
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said there was no basis for a continued depreciation of the yuan after the central bank allowed the currency to devalue 2.8 percent this month. The yuan
More than 300 grade schools in the Chinese neighborhood shaken by this month’s deadly blasts will start the fall semester on time, the district government of Binhai in the port
By administrative order, dramas about resisting the Japanese wartime enemy will fill Chinese TV channels this week as China celebrates — including with a massive military parade — the victory over Japan
China’s government intervened in the stock market yesterday to end a USD5 trillion rout, according to people familiar with the matter. China wants to stabilize equities before a Sept. 3 military
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