Beijing | Scaffold collapse at top school kills 10

A scaffolding collapse at one of Beijing's most prestigious high schools yesterday killed 10 construction workers and injured four others, officials said. The accident occurred at the start of the school

Technology | Traffic to Gmail from China cut, regulators suspected

Connections to Google Inc.'s popular email service have been blocked in China amid efforts by the government to limit access to the company's services. Records from Google's Transparency Report show online

FT report | China’s elderly flock back to university

The university, one of a network of nearly 50,000 elder education institutions in China, can help with that, too. Ms Chen, a retired dancer with the People's Liberation Army, learnt

Agonizing, lonely search for missing kids in China

  In the grainy video, Zhang Xiuhong can see her daughter ride her bike down a country road on her way to school one spring afternoon six years ago. In the next

Beijing to investigate ex-President Hu’s top aide

  The top aide to former Chinese President Hu Jintao has been placed under investigation for unspecified disciplinary violations, the official Xinhua News Agency said earlier this week, in a sign

China indicts Jackie Chan’s son on drug charge

Chinese prosecutors indicted the son of Hong Kong action film star Jackie Chan on the charge of sheltering others to use drugs, more than four months after he was detained. If

Hong Kong | Billionaire Kwok jailed 5 years for corrupting official

Billionaire Thomas Kwok, the former Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. co-chairman, was sentenced to five years in jail and fined HK$500,000 (USD64,460) for conspiring to corrupt Hong Kong’s No. 2

Former Chinese aluminum boss facing graft charges

The former boss of China’s biggest aluminum producer has been expelled from the ruling Communist Party on corruption charges, the party announced yesterday, as an anti-graft campaign that has brought

Myanmar | Woman fatally shot at Chinese-backed mine protest

An official from a Chinese-backed copper mine in Myanmar where a villager was shot dead in a protest expressed sorry yesterday at the incident and said it will impact the

Hong Kong | Elite’s mistresses, gangsters unveiled in graft trial

  Hong Kong’s highest-profile corruption trial opened the door on a world of fine wine, race horses and mistresses – exposing cozy ties between government and big business as protesters demanding

Sexologist’s revelation spurs discussion in China

A leading Chinese sexologist’s revelation that she’s been living with a transgender man for 17 years has sparked a rare public discussion about China’s largely invisible and marginalized transgender community. Li

Breaking news: President Xi cautions Macau against foreign forces

Chui Sai On takes oath as Chief Executive of MSAR for a second term Chinese President Xi Jinping today urged the semiautonomous former Portuguese colony of Macau to guard

MDT Report | How powerful is Xi Jinping?

He’s a man with a dream. A China dream. Possibly the most powerful man in modern China today, current Communist Party General Secretary Xi Jinping’s steady ascension to the pinnacle

China said to plan sweeping shift from foreign technology to own

China is aiming to purge most foreign technology from banks, the military, state-owned enterprises and key government agencies by 2020, stepping up efforts to shift to Chinese suppliers, according to

Sichuan | Village petitions to ‘isolate’ HIV positive boy

  Villagers in China’s Sichuan province have petitioned authorities to “isolate” an HIV positive eight-year-old boy, state media report. Kun Kun lives with his grandparents, who struggle to care for him. Local

Authorities arrest policeman blamed for wrongful conviction

A police officer who oversaw the case of a teenager wrongfully convicted of murder and executed in 1996 had been arrested, the official Xinhua News Agency said yesterday. Feng Zhiming, now

FT: Housing market trims losses

Chinese house prices fell at a slower pace in November, in a tentative sign that the sickly housing market may soon bottom out, lightening its drag on the broader economy,

Ex-mayor of Nanjing indicted on graft charges 

A former mayor of the major eastern Chinese city of Nanjing was indicted yesterday on corruption charges amid a widening anti-graft crackdown Ji Jianye faces charges of using his Communist Party

Analysis | Old investment remedy the treatment for mainland’s ‘new normal’

For the past decade, Chinese policymakers have spent big on major projects to buoy growth in the face of economic hardship, and this approach appears not to have changed with

Beijing secures construction of European railway

China secured a deal yesterday to construct a high-speed train link between the Belgrade and Budapest that will cut travel time between the Serbian and Hungarian capitals from eight hours to

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