Chinese auto sales weaken sharply in March after tax rise

Growth in China’s auto sales plunged in March as demand for SUVs weakened and purchases of sedans contracted, an industry group reported yesterday. Sales of cars,

Corporate bits | Conrad Macao celebrates 5th anniversary

Conrad Macao, Cotai Central marked its fifth anniversary yesterday by launching a limited edition of Conrad Macao’s bespoke Bear and Duck in glossy black. Guests

Capital punishment | Executions in China said to outpace world despite decline

China’s use of the death penalty remains shrouded in secrecy and still outpaces the rest of the world combined, even after the nation’s execution rate fell sharply

One Belt, One Road | China opens delayed Myanmar pipeline for faster Mideast oil

A crude pipeline to southwestern China through its neighbor Myanmar began operations after years of delays, allowing the world’s second-biggest oil user to receive supplies faster

Xinjiang | Official punished for not daring to smoke near Muslims

Authorities in China’s restive Xinjiang region have punished a local official for declining to smoke in front of Muslim elders, seeing that as a sign he was

China seen allowing bigger yuan declines as trade tensions ease

China will probably let the yuan weaken further now that trade tensions with the U.S. are receding and capital outflow pressures are easing, according to Natixis

Analysis | Beijing finally stems outflows. Now what?

Is China finally making headway in its battle against currency outflows? On the surface, yes: People’s Bank of China foreign exchange reserves are effectively unchanged since December

Korea | Pyongyang calls US aircraft carrier dispatch outrageous

Eric Talmadge, Pyongyang N orth Korea is vowing tough counteraction to any military moves that might follow the U.S. decision to send the USS

Philippines | Troops and suspected militants clash; 9 dead

At least nine people were killed yesterday in a gunbattle between Philippine forces and suspected Abu Sayyaf militants on a central resort island, far from the extremists’

Vietnam | Exports threatened by Trump trade talk

From a possible border tax to higher tariffs, America’s push to reset trade relations is putting Vietnam’s small economy at risk. Vietnam sells a fifth

Indonesia | Corruption investigator attacked with chemical

Police said an anti-corruption commission investigator leading a probe into a scandal that threatens to implicate high-profile Indonesian politicians was attacked yesterday with a chemical as he

Pulitzer | Prizes Whitehead wins fiction, Chinese composer takes music award

Colson Whitehead’s “The Underground Railroad,” his celebrated novel about an escaped slave that combined liberating imagination and brutal reality, has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

G-7 ministers appeal to Russia on Syria but reject sanctions

The Group of Seven industrialized nations yesterday urged Russia to pressure the Syrian government to end the six-year civil war, but rejected a British call to impose new

This Day in History | 1975 – US pulls out of Cambodia

The US has admitted defeat in Cambodia and removed its remaining embassy personnel from the capital, Phnom Penh. Early this morning 276 people were airlifted

Offbeat | Children’s Easter egg hunt nixed because of unruly parents

A Pennsylvania volunteer fire company says it has canceled this year’s Easter egg hunt for children because of “unruly” parents in past years. The Norco Fire Company in

Football | Zidane meets mentor Ancelotti in Champions League quarters

Thursday, 2:45 a.m. Bayern M v R Madrid H 1.83, D 4, A 4.75 As if a combined 16 European Cups weren’t enough, the Champions

Football | Leicester to meet Atletico Champions League quarterfinals

Thursday, 2:45 a.m. Atletico M v Leicester H 1.31, D 5.8, A 13 Atletico Madrid and Leicester have a lot in common these days. Relying on gritty defense

Athletics | IAAF clears 2 Russian world champions, 5 others to compete

The IAAF has approved seven Russian athletes, including two world champions, to compete internationally while their country is banned for doping. The IAAF says it

World briefs

CHINA-US President Donald Trump says he tried to persuade China’s leader last week to pressure North Korea to stop its nuclear program in exchange for a good trade

The Buzz | Churches in southern Egypt will not celebrate Easter

Egyptian churches, in the southern city of Minya, said yersterday that they will not hold Easter celebrations next Saturday in mourning for 45 Coptic Christians killed this week

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