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Macau, Friday, April 04, 2025
The Obama administration announced a USD1.83 billion arms sale to Taiwan, drawing an immediate rebuke and threats of retaliation from Taipei’s rival Beijing. The arms package is the first offered by
Before it all fell apart, a visit to Beijing by North Korea’s most popular all-female pop group was touted by Pyongyang as the perfect chance to warm up relations with
This is not your father’s lightsaber, Luke. This is not the weapon of a Jedi Knight, but the handcrafted replica of a Taiwanese man who disliked the official “Star Wars”
Chinese President Xi Jinping called yesterday for governments to cooperate in regulating Internet use, stepping up efforts to promote controls that activists complain stifle free expression. Xi’s government operates extensive
The Obama administration is planning its first arms sale to Taiwan in four years, congressional aides said yesterday (Macau time), a move that typically draws stiff criticism from Beijing but
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
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