Beijing, S. Korea agree to summit with Japan by November: Yonhap

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

Authorities urged to free reporter detained for stock market story

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

Taiwan | Swipe card with porn star image sells out in 4 hours 


  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

Chemical factory explodes in Shandong, killing 1

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

WWII parade draws Putin, but few other major world leaders 


  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

Xinhua: Journalist ‘confesses’ to causing China market crash

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

197 punished in crackdown on online rumors

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

Man Group hedge fund chief said to assist police in market probe

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

Death toll rises to 158 in blasts at Tianjin port

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

History rewritten | Gov’t gives little credit, or help, to Nationalist WWII vets

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,”

Gov’t approves prisoner amnesty to mark WWII anniversary

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

Premier Li says no basis for yuan’s continued depreciation

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

Schools to open on time in shaken Tianjin

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

Party fans smoldering antipathy toward Japan 

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

Gov’t intervenes to shore up stocks ahead of military parade

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

Hong Kong | Teen protest leader Joshua Wong faces new charges

Hong Kong police charged teenage student leader Joshua Wong yesterday for his role last year in storming government headquarters, which helped trigger 79 days of pro-democracy street occupations that gripped

11 detained over Tianjin warehouse explosion 

Chinese prosecutors have detained 11 government officials and company executives over a massive warehouse explosion that killed at least 145 people in the country’s worst industrial disaster in recent years. A

Christian lawyer taken away in region removing crosses

A well-known Chinese Christian lawyer had been out of contact for almost two days after being taken away by government workers in an eastern province where local authorities are under

Xinjiang | Gov’t jails 45 on terror-related charges

Chinese courts in the restive, western region of Xinjiang have jailed 45 people on terrorism-related charges, including 18 convicted of organizing illegal border crossings, state-run media reported yesterday. Among them were

Authorities probing brokers, regulators for possible stock crimes 

Employees of one of China’s biggest securities firms and one current and one former employee of its market regulator are under investigation on suspicion of illegal stock trading, state media reported yesterday,

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