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A former Japanese diplomat has accused the United States of manipulating Japan since the Second World War in order to “eliminate” prime mini...

Crikey - aided by the telly, fashion and the internet, a flood of Britishisms makes itself heard in the home of the Americanism

Ignoring the need for social reform while modernising the military risks repeating the mistakes of the Qing dynasty

Holiday chaos leads to appeals for changes to the arrangements for allocating paid leave

With seven of 10 PLA officers on the Central Military Commission too old to go on, big changes are certain after the party congress

Back in the days before e-mail, Victor Li, the heir to Asia's largest family fortune, used to sleep with a fax machine by his bed, rea...

A small island state in Southeast Asia has come out tops in a listing of countries that boast of the richest expatriates.

Absolute limit of 35 years set for new, refinance mortgages, loan-to-value ratios for certain new loans also tightened

Apparently, the shopping sentiment in Hong Kong has changed a lot since the last holiday season.

Thirty years ago,a young government official with a plum job in Beijing made an odd request: reassignment to a poor rural area.  

Dongguan’s derelict factories and huge deficits send chilling warning to a China in slowdown

They were born in the 1960s, grew up in a time of economic change and could finally deliver on reform Hu Chunhua is the party secretary o...

Li Rui joined the Communist Party in the 1930s, and is still actively campaigning for democracy and the rule of law

The global economic slowdown that has battered the resource sector this year has spared Indonesia’s coal capital Balikpapan, which is forgin...

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But the US$236 million trading centre Shi is building in this coastal town about 100 kilometres from Shanghai is more than a place for forei...

South Korea’s foreign minister said Thursday that Japan’s wartime past will overshadow relations between the two staunch U.S. allies until J...