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Few in the United States would recognize Charlene Barshefsky or remember what she did. Not so in China where the former U.S. Trade Represe...

Hong Kong actor, Wang Wei ( 王偉) (1941 -2011) passed away at 70-years-old. His real name was Wang Wing Wei (王永偉). Through his father’s fr...

The government in Beijing is seeking the extradition of private entrepreneurs who have fled China to live abroad after defaulting on billion...

The growth of off-balance-sheet and underground lending may look like a stealth liberalisation of mainland financial markets but is it reall...

Levy on home purchases will eventually replace restrictions on home-buying, finance official says

Brazil’s Vale made a successful wager in the 1960s to ship iron ore directly to Japan. But its attempt to do the same in China has run agrou...

Lease prices will keep rising as corporate demand is far outpacing supply, brokers say

Mainland cut in bank reserves and support measures expected to encourage buyers, but critics play down gain unless controls end

Prices of residential properties are expected to take a 20 per cent haircut, according to a report issued by Morgan Stanley Research.

Foreign companies that are looking to China to shore up wilting global sales have been hit by higher payroll taxes, surcharges to subsidize...

The latest case in China's neverending piracy story involves wine bootleggers vending locally-refined (or in this case, maybe "unr...

The Intermediate People's Court in the southern boomtown of Shenzhen rejected Apple's lawsuit against Proview Technology (Shenzhen)...

Royal Dutch Shell has found shale gas in China, a development that could cap imports in a market natural gas producers are hoping will dr...

This is a big difference between the Germans and the little Japs. That's why victims of Germans are willing to forgive. But the victims ...

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Shenzhen publishes draft regulations to encourage people to come to each other's aid in the wake of the death of a two-year-old girl

Observers are questioning the effectiveness of a Singapore Exchange (SGX) directive to China firms listed here over the position of legal re...

More drivers doing so to bypass traffic rules

Manufacturers in the country’s hub for children’s clothes fear the levy will cripple their operations