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A senior rail official has criticised the quality and safety standards of the mainland’s growing fleet of high-speed trains, a serious blow ...

Beijing should not be shy of displaying the full breadth of its growing military power and intentions to the world, a senior naval officer w...

Mainland internet users are up in arms after pictures of a series of luxurious new prisons were posted online this week, a stark contrast to...

China’s Politburo, the Communist Party’s top decision-making body, said the nation will maintain stimulus policies next year as the world’s ...

Related companies could be sold, broken up or merged as Dubai struggles with its debt load

Dubai’s debt troubles have exposed the fallacy of its once much-vaunted ‘model’ of raising shining cities in the desert with foreign residen...

Sino- Environment’s three executive directors (EDs) have hit back at the company’s independent directors as a war of words continues to esca...

Eckart Woertz, an economist with Dubai’s Gulf Research Centre, told the Financial Times: ‘This will destroy confidence in Dubai - the whole ...

Investors recoiled from risky assets on Friday and dumped shares in Asian banks and builders, fearing a Dubai debt default could reignite th...

Authorities in Beijing have blacked out a daring TV series highlighting rising property prices on the mainland because of the sensitive issu...

Dongguan authorities have vowed to clamp down on prostitution, but said excessive measures and blanket closures would be avoided.

Wal-Mart Stores’ demand for rock-bottom prices from suppliers in the mainland means some of these companies are forcing their employees to w...

They work in hotels, saunas, massage parlours and karaoke bars; an army of 300,000 whose existence is unacknowledged, whose activities are i...

The latest issue of Caijing magazine - the first since the departure of high-profile editor Hu Shuli, who founded the influential business p...

General Motors Corp does not expect to find new bidders for Saab and may shut the bankrupt unit after Koenigsegg Group cancelled a planned a...

China Minsheng Banking Corp fell a disappointing 3 per cent in its Hong Kong debut on Thursday after raising US$3.9 billion in the world’s f...

Mainland’s ballooning stock market bubble, fuelled by excessive liquidity, is likely to burst in the first half of next year, punctured by e...

Two major credit ratings agencies downgraded several Dubai government-related entities after the government overnight on Wednesday said it w...

Four investors found guilty in Hong Kong’s largest market-manipulation case were sentenced to 26-30 months in prison by a Hong Kong court on...

China tightened rules on individuals transferring yuan and foreign exchange between bank accounts after speculation the nation’s currency wi...