One child policy | Pregnant woman must choose between 2nd child, husband’s job

A public outcry has been raised over the plight of a woman who’s considering an illegal abortion at 8 months because the child would violate China’s restrictive birth policy and

Film | Xinhua Insight: big-name directors lose game to small fish

Chinese film is exiting a period ruled by a scattering of big-name directors, a change evident this summer as the movie industry’s big fish floundered. Their ticket sales were dwarfed as

Offbeat | Two detained for Great Wall damage

Police in northwest China’s Gansu Province have detained two people for damaging the Great Wall, local authorities said yesterday. According to Xinhua, in an inspection tour in mid-August, the Gansu

Stock rescue jolts companies, reform plans 

Tonhe Electronics is a casualty of Beijing’s frantic effort to stop a stock market bust. The maker of electrical equipment, part of a technology industry the ruling Communist Party wants to

Chemical factory blast death toll rises to 13 

The death toll from an explosion at a chemical factory in eastern China last week has jumped to 13 after search and rescue efforts ended, a city government said. A factory

Slimmed down military to help Xi counter US dominance

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

Analysis | Pondering why a woman can’t be more like a man

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

A secretive agency hunts for crooked officials worldwide

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 to hold big parade, but ordinary folks can’t go see it 

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 | Teen student leader Joshua Wong faces trial over pro-democracy protest

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

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,”

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