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The biggest Chinese airline said yesterday its chairman is being investigated by the country’s anti-corruption agency. China Southern Airlines said Si Xianmin is being investigated “by the relevant authorities for suspected serious
Hong Kong ranks second in a list of cities most at risk of a property bubble, according to a report released by investment bank UBS. The report entitled “UBS Global
It has no membership in the United Nations. In the Olympics, it competes as “Chinese Taipei.” Most nations don’t recognize it as a country. The economically dynamic, self-governing island of Taiwan
China has approved the budget for a 58.41 billion yuan (USD9.22 billion) high-speed rail project connecting Beijing to the outdoor venues for the 2022 Winter Olympics, a crucial piece of infrastructure
Hong Kong led gains in Asian stock markets yesterday after an official said China will set up a second stock trading link with the city this year. Hong Kong’s Hang Seng
The presidents of China and Taiwan will meet this weekend for the first time since civil war divided their lands 66 years ago, their governments said yesterday, a highly symbolic move that
President Xi Jinping said yesterday that China needs at least 6.5 percent economic growth in coming years to raise living standards and become “moderately prosperous.” The ruling Communist Party also announced plans
The U.S. Navy’s challenge last week to China’s sovereignty claims in the South China Sea was not designed as a military threat, the head of U.S. Pacific military forces said yesterday in a mostly
Zhang Genheng has been expelled from the party and the military, and his case has been sent to prosecutors, according to a notice on the website of the party’s anti-corruption
Bai Budan took a morning stroll on Tiananmen Square to find inspiration for a new series of satirical cartoons, an art form only barely alive in China. He wondered about the sheer
Everyone should have the chance to have more than one child, say Chinese parents who welcome the government’s loosening of its population policy. But just because all couples can now
Merkel met a group of human rights lawyers, writers and bloggers at the German Embassy in Beijing on Thursday evening, a government official said on the condition of anonymity because
China’s ruling Communist Party announced yesterday that the country will start allowing all couples to have two children, abolishing an unpopular policy that limited many urban couples to only one child
Village elder Yang Zhenjun isn’t ready to move out from the valley where his people have herded sheep and tended crops for generations amid arid, drought-prone mountains of China’s northwest. Still, he
Tens of thousands of North Koreans are being sent to work abroad in conditions that amount to forced labor to circumvent U.N. sanctions and earn foreign currency for the country, amounting to
China summoned the American ambassador to protest the U.S. Navy’s sailing of a warship close to one of China’s artificial islands in the South China Sea, in an act that challenged Chinese sovereignty claims. China’s Foreign Ministry
Beijing reacted harshly to a U.S. warship sailing near one of its newly created islands in a disputed area of the South China Sea. The action did not spark a
Liu Jintao, vice marketing manager of Shuanghui, China’s largest pork producer, said the WHO IARC’s report was “deeply regrettable.” “The report, though claiming to be published for human health, is in
China won’t get involved in Taiwan’s upcoming elections, a government spokesman said yesterday, underscoring the sensitivity surrounding polls in which the island’s pro-independence opposition is expected to make a strong showing. An
The People’s Bank of China, the nation’s five biggest lenders, sovereign-wealth fund China Investment Corp. and the banking, securities and insurance regulators are among 31 entities that will be inspected
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