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Shanxi’s provincial government has sacked the head of China’s biggest coking coal company after the arrest of two robbers who stole more tha...

Beijing officials are proud of the restoration of a section of the Yongding, but greens say it's a waste of money and ignores an environ...

Civil servants are having classes in moral standards: but the real problem is a lack of proper supervision

'What horrible people the Japanese are,' said student Zhao Lan, after watching the movie. 'How can they be that crazy and mad!...

A disproportionate number of Singaporeans are among the world's wealthiest. So why the blues?

On a recent brisk Beijing morning, the competition for depositors was in full swing at a Bank of Communications branch office.

Provinces go deeper into the red to finish projects - from the Manhattan to highways to a stadium fronted by Olympic rings

Government needs invoices to assess taxes but firms avoid issuing them by giving clients freebies

While HDB resale prices are expected to remain stable in 2012, with marginal softening of the COVs (cash-over-valuation), leading to an over...

Mainland property developers should start construction on idle sites within three months of receiving a government order, according to the l...

Curbs designed to slow down housing development and limit price rises look set to stay in place in many mainland cities, sparking fears of a...

One city official has brought on praise and mockery over remarks to villagers protesting against land seizures

House-price controls have succeeded, but a subsequent property market slowdown is chilling China’s local governments

The property bubble - much of it fuelled by credit from the unregulated shadow banking system - is visibly bursting

The last time the remote Australian city of Darwin played a significant role in American military planning was during the early days of Worl...

More wives are straying; changing social attitudes and earning power of women among reasons

In a spacious, luxury apartment perched on the leafy hills of Hong Kong, Kai-Yin Lo browses through a trove of Chinese art acquired over sev...

Protesting villagers in southern China said they will march on government offices this week unless the body of a local leader is released an...

Now that she has made it to the promised land, Hunan native Gong Yan is determined that her new life in Singapore is going to work out even ...