China plans to gradually reduce the amount of subsidies for new-energy vehicles and will stop providing financial assistance after 2020, according to Finance Minister Lou Jiwei. Chinese automobile companies are overly reliant
Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday he hopes to open a “new chapter” in relations with Iran after the lifting of international sanctions under a historic nuclear deal, as he
It is the latest twist in the disappearances of British citizen Lee Bo and four of his colleagues that have intensified fears that Beijing is clamping down on Hong Kong’s
A Chinese journalist who said he was fed up with a life as a government informant and fled China last year has been missing from Thailand since Jan. 11, his wife said
The Facebook page of Taiwan’s president-elect was flooded yesterday with tens of thousands of pro-China comments following a campaign by young mainlanders to jump the country’s “Great Firewall” into normally
Chinese forces recently held live-fire landing exercises along the coast opposite Taiwan, the military’s official television channel said Thursday, days after the self-governing island elected an independence-leaning president. CCTV7 said the
So long, People’s Frontline. Adios, Comrade in Arms. China’s armed forces have shut down newspapers published by the country’s seven military regions as part of a program to downsize and streamline
A former anti-narcotics officer and a Chinese citizen were arrested yesterday during a drug raid in the Philippine capital that yielded USD6.7 million worth of high-grade crystal methamphetamine, officials said. Philippine
Now that China has abandoned its decades-long one-child policy, demand for maternity services is expected to grow as women take advantage of the chance to have a second child. Some
Chinese state television has aired a confession made in detention by a Swedish co-founder of a human rights group, who said he had trained and funded unlicensed lawyers in China
Average concentrations of air particulates in 189 Chinese cities fell by 10 percent in 2015, according to a new Greenpeace report, a sign that pollution overall was decreasing even as
Taiwan’s new government will carefully manage relations with mainland China and it wants Washington to keep encouraging reconciliation, a senior official of the victorious party said yesterday (Macau time). Joseph Wu
Chinese state media say three people have been killed and 53 injured in an explosion at a fireworks plant in the southern province of Jiangxi. The official Xinhua News Agency said
A deputy head of the Chinese Cabinet’s Taiwan Affairs Office has been placed under investigation for apparent corruption as Beijing’s policies toward the island come under renewed scrutiny. The ruling Communist
President Xi Jinping will wade into the feud between Iran and Saudi Arabia as he begins a Middle East tour that shows a new willingness by China to flex its
Hong Kong authorities say Chinese officials have confirmed the whereabouts of the chief editor of a publisher specializing in books banned in mainland China three weeks after he went missing
China's economy cooled further in the latest quarter, dragging 2015's full-year growth to a quarter-century low and deepening a slowdown that has fueled anxiety over its impact on the global
Chinese state media say a Swedish co-founder of a human rights group in China was detained because he is suspected of funding activities that endanger state security. The official Xinhua News
The Dalai Lama left his home in India yesterday to travel to the United States for a medical checkup, although the Tibetan spiritual leader said he has no specific health
Twenty prominent lawyers and jurists from Europe, North America, Australia and Pakistan yesterday urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to release a dozen Chinese lawyers and legal assistants held in detention
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