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Macau,
A village in central China has abruptly demolished a statue of the country’s founder, Mao Zedong, after images of the structure covered in gold paint and looming 37 meters high
The latest trigger was currency jitters, but Thursday’s plunge in Chinese stocks was just one in a series of aftershocks from last year’s boom and bust that could shake markets
China’s consumer inflation edged up 1.6 percent in December year on year as food prices rose, official data showed Saturday. The inflation rate reported by the National Bureau of Statistics was up
China has formally arrested a Guangzhou labor organizer and three other people authorities had been holding amid a crackdown on worker activism, Reuters reported, citing two lawyers. Zeng Feiyang, director of
A Hong Kong bookseller whose disappearance has inflamed concerns about growing Chinese interference in the city told his wife in a video message that he traveled to the mainland on his own
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged China to end “business as usual” with North Korea after the isolated nation conducted its fourth nuclear test. Kerry told reporters last week that
As a boy in China in the 1970s, Jason Zhuang Xiangsong was captivated by comics based on the legendary Monkey King and dreamed of creating a Chinese version of Astro
When the U.S. wanted to show the world it didn’t recognize what it called China’s “excessive” territorial claims in disputed waters of the South China Sea this fall, it sent
The United States said that China’s recent test of a newly completed runway on one of seven islands Beijing has constructed in the disputed South China Sea raises tensions and
Think bourbon is hot? It’s got nothing on baijiu. Yet chances are good you haven’t even heard of baijiu, the high proof, pungent, spicy, savory, sweet traditional liquor of China. It
Environmental authorities in Beijing say air quality improved in 2015, a year in which they issued the city’s first two red smog alerts and showed a greater willingness to disrupt
Chinese parents who had children outside the country’s one-child policy protested outside the family planning commission yesterday in an attempt to have their fines canceled now that all couples are
Hong Kong’s leader said yesterday that he was “highly concerned” about the recent disappearances of five people associated with a publishing company in the city that specializes in titles critical of
Shanghai’s stock index plunged nearly 7 percent yesterday, sparking a halt in trading of Chinese shares, after weak manufacturing data and Middle East tensions weighed on Asian markets. The Shanghai Composite Index
The Caixin/Markit index, based on a survey of factory purchasing managers, fell to 48.2 in December from 48.6 the previous month. The index uses a 100-point scale with numbers above 50
East Asia formed its first cross-nation union, the ASEAN Community, at the turn of the new year, which is expected to lead the region into a new stage of integration
The Philippine government said yesterday that like Vietnam, it opposes China’s recent test of a newly completed runway on one of seven islands Beijing has constructed in the disputed South
The Communist Party of China (CPC)’s top anti-graft body yesterday said some 29,000 officials were reprimanded for violating austerity rules in the first 11 months of 2015, bringing the total
China’s godfather of rock Cui Jian says his basic message of personal freedom hasn’t changed in his new album, even if the world has. The rocker, who fell out of favor with the government
Economic policy missteps loomed large over China’s economy this year, ranging from a controversial stock market bailout, to a yuan devaluation that roiled global markets to a financing crunch for
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