Chinese boat stretches lead in Volvo Ocean Race

Charles Caudrelier's crew are aiming to become the first Chinese boat to win a leg in offshore sailing's leading round-the-world race, which was first held in 1973. There would be no

Shanghai nixes famed lantern festival after deadly stampede

  China's financial hub of Shanghai said yesterday it was canceling its famed Lunar New Year lantern festival in the wake of a stampede that left 36 people dead. The announcement illustrates

China plan for unmanned moon landing, Earth return advances

China's bold plan to land an unmanned spaceship on the moon before returning to Earth has moved another step forward with a test craft shifting into lunar orbit to conduct

Trade | Beijing hosts Latin American bloc, hails ties with region

  Chinese President Xi Jinping hailed growing ties with Latin America yesterday, pledging to use his country's economic clout to support billions of dollars in regional projects and almost double two-way

Donuts | Dunkin’ strikes deal to open 1,400 stores in China

The chain said in an email there are currently 16 Dunkin' Donuts locations in the country. Parent company Dunkin' Brands Group Inc., which is based in Canton, Massachusetts and also owns

Oil price woes | Ecuador gets USD5.3 billion China credit

Ecuador's state-run news agency says the Andean country has secured a USD5.3 billion line of credit from China to help it cope with a budget shortfall caused by plunging oil

Shenzhen | Chinese upstart takes lead in fast-growing drone market

  An amateur photographer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, drew crowds when he used a drone mini-helicopter made by China's DJI Technology Co. to capture images of historic church steeples and other

Hong Kong | Pro-democracy lawmakers walk out of LegCo

  Pro-democracy legislators walked out of the much-awaited start of a debate on democratic reforms in Hong Kong yesterday to protest the government's intention to stick with a plan to screen

China arrests scholar on charge of running illegal business

A Chinese scholar who helped an activist escape house arrest has been arrested on the charge of operating an illegal business, nearly three months after he was taken into police

Shanghai Stampede | At cost of grieving families, China manages public emotions

Some wailed and some staggered with grief as the relatives of the 36 people killed in Shanghai’s New Year’s Eve stampede visited the disaster site yesterday for seventh-day commemorations that

Diplomacy | Flag-raising by Taiwan in Washington riles Beijing

The U.S. State Department said yesterday it was not given advance notice about a New Year’s flag-raising ceremony at the residence of Taiwan’s representative to Washington that has angered China. Taiwanese

Petco pulls Chinese treats amid fears they sickened pets

Petco said it has removed all remaining Chinese-made dog and cat treats from its website and stores nationwide because of concerns they have sickened thousands of pets and killed 1,000

Media reports on N Korea ties after soldier killed four people in border town

Papers and experts discuss Beijing-Pyongyang ties following reports that a North Korean soldier killed four people in a Chinese border town. The soldier crossed the border in late December, stealing money

Hong Kong | CY Leung cancels town hall meetings on Occupy

Hong Kong’s government canceled the chief executive’s town hall meetings for the first time over concerns about potential public unrest spurred by pro-democracy protests that ended last month. Leung Chun-ying’s meet-the-­people

Venezuela’s Maduro to visit Beijing to talk finance

China is the socialist country's largest creditor. Maduro said yesterday that he would talk about Venezuela's oil-for-loans agreements with President Xi Jinping. Venezuela is struggling with the world's highest inflation, a

BOC authorized for RMB clearing business in Kuala Lumpur

The authorization came after a mutual cooperation memorandum was reached between the two nations' central banks, said the People's Bank of China, China's central bank. RMB clearing business in overseas markets

Taiwan | Imprisoned ex-President Chen given medical parole

Chen, 64, rolled down a car window and waved to about 200 supporters while a police escort took him out of the main gate at Taichung prison on Monday afternoon. Chen,

Obituary | He Zhenliang, China’s ‘Mr. Olympics,’ dies at 85

He Zhenliang, a former International Olympic Committee vice president who was instrumental in Beijing winning the 2008 Summer Olympics, has died. He was 85. He died at a hospital in Beijing

WWII | Japan’s leader says he will express remorse

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said yesterday that his government would express remorse for World War II on the 70th anniversary of its end in August. Abe is known for his

Shanghai stampede | Witnesses: Sequence of errors led to accident

On New Year’s Eve of 2013, Shanghai authorities sent about 6,000 city police officers and requested help from military police to manage a 300,000-strong crowd that filled the city’s famed

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