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China’s economy, already in the midst of a half-decade deceleration, won’t arrest its downward trajectory until at least 2018. Six of 12 economists surveyed by Bloomberg last week say 2018 will
Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh said yesterday that she has been waiting many years to reprise her role in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” in an upcoming sequel to the supernatural martial
A federal judge will hear closing arguments today (Macau time) about whether a Chinese drywall manufacturer held back information about its U.S. sales by failing to disclose a former official’s
The tough guys wore smiley face stickers, but they weren’t there to spread good cheer. Scenes of pushing, shouting and shoving outside a Beijing courthouse this week were orchestrated by plainclothes
Police scuffled with protesters and journalists at a Beijing courthouse yesterday as a prominent rights lawyer stood trial on charges of provoking trouble and stirring ethnic hatred with online commentary
The chairman of the Chinese conglomerate that owns Club Med and whose company said he was assisting an official investigation after he disappeared for a day last week, appeared yesterday
E-commerce company Alibaba is buying Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post for HKD2.06 billion (USD266 million), it said yesterday, in a deal that’s stirred concern the English-language paper’s reporting may be softened
A cold wave was predicted to clear up smog in Beijing later yesterday after the city issued warnings on the weekend for children and the elderly to stay inside as
A Beijing court has commuted the death sentence for the wife of fallen Politburo member Bo Xilai to life in prison, winding down one of the biggest scandals to rock China’s political
China will loosen its stringent regulations on urban residency to allow more people to enjoy public services such as housing, education and health care beginning next year. Chinese citizens have for decades
China held a memorial for Nanjing Massacre victims in the eastern city of Nanjing yesterday. Li Jianguo, a member of the Party’s Central Committee Political Bureau and vice chairman of the
Hong Kong will face a HK$75.6 billion (USD9.8 billion) bill if an express railway linking the city to mainland China is abandoned, the Transport and Housing Bureau said in a
China’s push for a global climate pact was partly because of its own increasingly pressing need to solve serious environmental problems, observers said yesterday. China, the world’s biggest source of climate-changing
One of China’s most prominent human rights lawyers is due to stand trial today for comments on social media that were critical of the ruling Communist Party in a case
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., the e-commerce giant headed by billionaire Jack Ma, agreed to buy Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post and other affiliated media assets as the Internet tycoon follows in the
Multinational corporations doing business in China face a losing battle when it comes to keeping copies of their products off the market: The anti-counterfeiting industry they rely on is plagued with fraud,
On paper, the reports were perfect, brilliant parries in the fight against fakes in China. There were phone numbers, dates, official agencies, photographs and a nice haul: over 120,000 packages of
Beijing residents stayed indoors, schools were closed and limits on cars, factories and construction sites kept pollution from spiking even higher yesterday, the second of three days of restrictions triggered
Factories in Beijing that make goods from cement to train cars were shut down to help ease the Chinese capital’s pollution crisis. But it was a boon for some businesses,
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