Tibet | Authorities offer up to USD50K in cash for terror tips

Chinese authorities are offering up to 300,000 yuan (USD50,000) for tips on terrorism activities in the Himalayan region of Tibet, the official Xinhua News Agency said Saturday. China’s recent efforts to fight

China returns at 5 times Hong Kong easy choice for investors

“There will be much more downside for pure Hong Kong plays because people are buying China on a potential rate cut and a more stable economic outlook,” said Steven Leung,

Apple’s CNY sales may bring second holiday boost

Apple, which posted 70 percent revenue growth in China last quarter, may get another boost from the shopping season tied to the Chinese New Year in February. The holiday, which falls

Officials call attention to baby, gender imbalances 

Fan Hua of Shanghai’s family planning commission said this week that far fewer people than expected had taken advantage of a recent rule change that lets more households bear a

First circuit court established in Shenzhen

The First Circuit Court of China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC), inaugurated in Shenzhen City in Guangdong province, will mainly handle major administrative, civil and commercial cases which should be heard

Tibet | Communist officials punished for helping Dalai Lama

Investigators have found that 15 Communist Party officials in Tibet joined underground Tibetan independence organizations, provided intelligence to the Dalai Lama and his supporters or participated in activities deemed harmful

Yuan joins top 5 most-used global currencies

The yuan passed the Canadian and Australian dollars in popularity in December, according to the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, which provides communications between financial institutions and companies. It

Two new billionaires emerge with Shenzhen stock rally

A rally in shares on China’s Shenzhen Stock Exchange has made Xiao Fen and Ruan Hongxian billionaires as their companies’ stocks climbed. Xiao, chairman of Shenzhen Fenda Technology Co., a consumer

Regulators criticize Alibaba in report withheld until after IPO

  Chinese regulators accused e-commerce giant Alibaba of permitting sales of fake goods and hurting consumers in a report that was withheld until now to avoid disrupting the company’s U.S. stock

Army’s call for commanders to obey Xi signals tensions

China’s military must “resolutely obey” orders from President Xi Jinping, a commentary on the PLA Daily website said, a sign Xi is seeking to quell possible dissent as his anti-graft

Beijing’s shadow looms large over Obama visit to India 

  As President Barack Obama and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met in New Delhi this week, the shadow of a third player hung over the talks: neighboring China, which has complicated

Hong Kong | Industrial Bank employee said to fall to his death

A man who fell to his death at an office building located in Hong Kong’s business district was an Industrial Bank Co. employee, according to people with knowledge of the

Death threats and dawn raids: Welcome to the anti-graft drive

  Frozen Chinese bank accounts. Top executives taken in for questioning. Reports of death threats and pre-dawn clashes between armed body guards and police in Beijing. That’s the fallout from a corporate

Prisons under scrutiny after inmate extorts sex from women

China’s management of its prisons was thrown into the spotlight after a news website report detailing how an inmate extorted money and sex from women he met via mobile phone

Leaders show listening ear on trash but not politics 

  To help sell the public on the need for one of the world’s largest trash incinerators in the mountains in west Beijing, Communist Party officials bused in hundreds of people

Manufacturing picks up, lifted by stimulus measures

  A Chinese manufacturing gauge recovered lost ground in January, suggesting stimulus measures have helped stabilize the world’s second-largest economy. The preliminary Purchasing Managers’ Index from HSBC Holdings Plc and Markit Economics

Hong Kong | City falls out of top 30 most-livable cities

The city’s livability ranking fell 16 spots to the 33rd, one of the steepest slides in the survey, while another Asian financial hub, Singapore, topped the list for the 16th

TRAFFICKING | Paraguay tries to stop execution of drug mule in Beijing

Rosalia Amarilla stepped into the international terminal of Beijing’s cavernous main airport on the afternoon of July 24, 2012, wearing more than 3 kilograms of cocaine stuffed into her underwear

Oceanography | Magnificent blue glow of Hong Kong seas also disturbing

Eerie fluorescent blue patches of water glimmering off Hong Kong's seashore are magnificent, disturbing and potentially toxic, marine biologists say. The glow is an indicator of a harmful algal bloom created

Shanghai stampede victim families to receive USD130,000 compensation

The Shanghai government will pay Rmb800,000 (USD130,000) to each of the families of the 36 revelers who died in the New Year’s Eve stampede on the city’s historic Bund, after

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