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Chinese policymakers face mounting pressure to support economic growth after an unexpectedly large drop in exports last month and the steepest decline in producer prices in almost six years. China’s producer-price
A typhoon that lashed Taiwan dumped heavy rain and winds on the Chinese mainland yesterday, leaving a total of 22 people dead or missing, collapsing homes and trees and cutting
A Chinese lawyer who spoke up on behalf of rights lawyers persecuted by authorities was himself taken away by police in handcuffs, his wife said Friday. Police came just before midnight
Consumer inflation edged up to a still-low 1.6 percent year-on-year in July, government data showed yesterday, leaving room for Beijing to cut interest rates or take other steps to stimulate
The confusion and frustration that punctuated the investigation into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 erupted anew yesterday after officials offered conflicting levels of confidence on whether a piece
Imprisoned Chinese journalist Gao Yu has been diagnosed with heart problems and a request for parole on medical grounds is pending, her lawyer said yesterday. Gao, 71, is serving a seven-year
In a direct challenge to China, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called yesterday for all claimants to disputed territories in the South China Sea to immediately halt provocative activities that have ratcheted
China’s top anti-pornography office yesterday announced its latest mission: a campaign to remove amateur sex videos from China’s social media. Long intolerant of obscenity online, Beijing authorities are now trying to
Chinese state media say minority Muslim Uighurs deported from Thailand to China remain in detention while authorities investigate whether some planned to join the Islamic State or other groups in the Middle
Artist Ai Weiwei said in an interview published yesterday that Chinese authorities returned his passport with almost no strings attached and promised him he can return to China. Ai traveled to
About a dozen Catholics wept and sang hymns outside their church as a man climbed to the top of the building and sliced off its steel cross with a cutting
China’s sweeping drive against corruption has again turned to the country’s sports programs, with the head of the national volleyball program the latest to be targeted. The ruling party’s corruption
A Beijing policeman rescued a newborn baby who was stuck face-down in a public toilet, reaching his arm down into the pipe to gently pull out the infant, police and
South Korea said yesterday that it had agreed to a 85.1 billion won (USD73 million) deal with a Chinese-led consortium to salvage a ferry that sunk in an accident that
Chinese authorities are investigating allegations of misbehavior made online against the controversial abbot of China’s famed Shaolin Temple, the Associated Press reported yesterday. Furthermore according to the Financial Times, the abbot,
All-Stars Investment Ltd. led the latest round of financing, the startup said in a statement yesterday. The Chinese investment firm also backs smartphone maker Xiaomi Corp. Tujia, which means “home on
China plans to tighten regulations governing the nation’s 270 online-payment firms including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.’s finance arm, dealing another blow to the booming business of Internet finance. Under draft rules
According to the news site, Ng Lai-ying, 30, had accused Chief Inspector Chan Ka-po of touching her breast during a protest in March. But the court had ruled against her, saying
Having made history as the first city to win hosting rights for both the Summer and Winter Olympics, Beijing now faces a slew of challenges, from ensuring adequate snow in
Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was granted a six-month visa to the U.K. on Friday after Home Secretary Theresa May overruled officials in her department who had limited his stay in
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