FT: Hong Kong market rally starts to reshape global league table

China Construction Bank has overtaken JPMorgan, Facebook and Chevron in terms of size, a sign of how a dramatic stock market rally in Hong Kong “is reshaping the league table

Beijing hopes European film buff will raise festival profile

Marco Mueller’s latest of more than 100 trips to China is as general adviser to the fifth Beijing International Film Festival that opens Thursday. The Swiss-Italian’s hiring is part of

Official says PRC may raise damages caps for IP violations

The comments by Lyu Guoqiang, commissioner of Shanghai’s Intellectual Property Office, echo an action plan issued in December by the State Council, China’s top administrative authority, which called for “increasing

Authorities free 5 women’s rights activists after month detention

Chinese authorities have released five women’s rights campaigners whose detentions for more than a month sparked an international outcry and underscored the government’s tight restrictions on independent social activism. The women

Amid tensions, Li meets Japan delegation

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met yesterday with a Japanese delegation led by ex-Chief Cabinet Secretary Yohei Kono, amid halting efforts to reduce lingering tensions between the countries before this year’s

Ex-state oil boss admits graft, power abuse

A top official who led China’s biggest petroleum company and later was assigned to oversee state-owned companies admitted in court yesterday that he was guilty of corruption and abuse of power, the

Mainland soccer on upswing with new talent and big investment

For Chinese Super League club Shanghai Shenhua, the new season has brought new optimism. After several years of turmoil that saw the team stripped of its 2003 CSL title in a

Beijing says Taiwan won’t be among charter members of new bank

Cross-strait friction remerged yesterday as China said Taiwan won’t be among the charter members of the Chinese-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, apparently because of a dispute over what name the island should

PRC, US to boost cooperation on repatriating fugitives 

China and the U.S. are boosting cooperation in sending home crime suspects amid a Chinese drive to ferret out corrupt officials and fugitives who have fled abroad. The Department of Homeland Security

Hong Kong | Gov’t said to seek limit to visits from Shenzhen residents

Hong Kong proposed to China that visits from Shenzhen residents be cut to once a week as an increase in day-trippers and traders buying goods in the city led to

Cancer surge prompts rise of special patient hotels

Li Xiaohe has set herself up for the long haul in a cramped but sunny room in western Beijing, about a block from China’s most renowned cancer hospital. Her laundry dries on

TV host says sorry for comments about Mao Zedong

A popular Chinese television celebrity has apologized for insulting the founder of Communist China, after his remarks at a private dinner caused a stir in China and rekindled debate on the complicated

CCTV host’s mocking of Mao Zedong draws fire, applause

China's state broadcaster is investigating one of its hosts after a video of him insulting Mao Zedong was leaked online, causing a stir and rekindling debate on the complicated legacy

Verbal war | China urges US not to take sides on territorial issues

China yesterday urged the United States not to take sides on territorial issues, voicing anger against U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter, who said Diaoyu Islands fall under the scope of

Taiwan | Sylvia Chang makes comeback with ‘Murmur of the Hearts’

Veteran Taiwanese filmmaker Sylvia Chang is making a comeback after a seven-year hiatus with "Murmur of the Hearts," which pairs seasoned actors with fresh faces to tell a story about

Officials in Guangdong cancel incinerator after protests

A city government in southern China has revoked approval of a planned waste incinerator in response to protests, in the latest case of local authorities bowing to a public outcry

Tibet chief demands monasteries display Chinese flags

Tibet's Communist Party chief has demanded that Buddhist monasteries display the national flag as part of efforts to shore up Chinese control over the restive region. In an editorial appearing in

Taiwan | President Ma says China relations unshaken by protests 

Taiwan’s president said yesterday that relations with political rival China were moving forward despite widespread public opposition that crested with an occupation of parliament last year, and that he hopes to cooperate

Tigers & Flies | Court sentences former mayor to 15 years for graft

A former mayor of the major eastern Chinese city of Nanjing has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on corruption charges as President Xi Jinping’s anti-graft crackdown continues to

World Bank: AIIB ‘potential ally’ in poverty fight 

The head of the World Bank said Tuesday he will do everything he can to work with a new Chinese-led Asian infrastructure bank opposed by Washington. World Bank Group President Jim

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