Xi opens UK state visit with carriage ride

Chinese President Xi Jinping prepared to address Britain’s Parliament and dine with Queen Elizabeth II yesterday as he began a state visit that is intended to cement close economic ties

Briefs | HONG KONG: Mainland tourist beaten to death near shop

Chinese authorities are urging Hong Kong to fully investigate the death of a mainland tourist who was fatally beaten outside a shop. The death has spurred calls in China for

Dalai Lama calls action on climate a ‘human responsibility’

The Dalai Lama yesterday urged strong global action to limit global warming and to protect fragile environments, including the Himalayan glaciers and Tibetan plateau. Calling climate change a “problem which human

Mainland economic growth declines to 6-year low

China’s economy decelerated in the latest quarter but stronger spending by consumers who are emerging as an important pillar of growth helped to avert a deeper downturn. The world’s second-largest economy grew

Lavish welcome for Xi as UK seeks ‘golden’ ties

The U.K. is rolling out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s state visit which began yesterday. Amid the pomp of a 41-gun salute, lunch with Queen Elizabeth II

Cybersecurity firm: Hacking on US companies persists 

Chinese hacking attempts on American corporate intellectual property have occurred with regularity over the past three weeks, suggesting that China almost immediately began violating its newly minted cyber agreement with the United

Taiwan Ruling | Nationalists dump presidential candidate 

Taiwan’s ruling Nationalist Party dumped its unpopular presidential candidate on Saturday, in hopes that her replacement will revive the party’s fortunes three months before an election that the pro-independence opposition

Human rights | US tells Party it isn’t following its own laws in detentions

Tom Malinowski, assistant secretary of state for human rights, democracy and labor, led a U.S. delegation that met in Beijing with representatives from the ministries of public security, justice and

On eve of Xi’s visit, Beijing, UK poised for deal on world’s costliest nuclear plant

The U.K. and China are set to announce an accord that will give the mainland a stake in Electricite de France SA’s Hinkley Point project, Britain’s first nuclear plant in

Authorities detain 16 protesters over marina project

Chinese authorities detained 16 fishermen after hundreds of people protested the construction of a sea marina in a southern Chinese port city over the weekend. Police in the city of Beihai

Offbeat | Chinese police detain 3 for stealing body for ghost wedding

Police in northern China have detained three people suspected of stealing a corpse to sell as a bride in the ancient Chinese rite of ghost weddings, which join single people

Media: Rights lawyer’s son used by anti-Beijing forces

China worked with police in neighboring Myanmar to nab the 16-year-old son of a detained rights lawyer and send him back home because he had been coerced into a plot

South China Sea | Military reaches out amid tensions

As expectations grow that the U.S. Navy will directly challenge Beijing’s South China Sea claims, China is engaging in some serious image-building for its own military by hosting two international security forums this

HONG KONG | 7 police charged over protester’s filmed beating 

Hong Kong police yesterday charged seven officers with harming an activist who was beaten in a filmed confrontation that stirred outrage among city residents at the height of the pro-democracy

Ex-public security official Li Dongsheng on trial for bribery

A former vice minister of public security went on trial in northern China yesterday for alleged bribery, the latest senior figure linked to the country’s former security czar to be prosecuted in

South China Sea | Beijing’s island moves draw neighbors closer to US, Carter says

China’s island-building in the South China Sea is driving Asian nations to seek closer cooperation with the U.S., Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said. The American defense chief made the comment Tuesday

Hong Kong | British banker Rurik Jutting’s murder trial set for next year

A Hong Kong court yesterday set an October 2016 trial date for a British banker accused in the gruesome murders last year of two Indonesian women, including one whose body

Cathay Pacific avoids flying over Iran after missile warning

The airline’s decision to reroute flights comes after Russia stepped up its military campaign against Islamic State group fighters in Syria. It started firing cruise missiles from its military warships

Briefs | Inflation eases, leaving room for stimulus

Chinese inflation eased in September, giving Beijing more room to stimulate slowing economic growth if needed. Consumer prices rose 1.6 percent over a year earlier, driven by a 2.7 percent

Party jails former oil executive for 20 years for corruption

A Chinese court has sentenced a former senior executive of a state oil company to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty of corruption. The sentencing of Wang Yongchun,

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