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model that delivered three decades of double-digit growth is running out of steam and the country’s next leaders face tough choices to keep ...

Former Chinese ambassador to Japan says Washington should distance itself from Tokyo

Leader-in-waiting had setbacks in early years in Fujian, but learned fast. In the second of a three-part series, we look at his 17 years in ...

Why did the well-connected son of a revolutionary leader swap a job in the capital for life as a party cadre in on obscure rural community?

Article says party could learn much from island's brand of authoritarianism

The 25-year-olds were pulled half-naked from car smash in March

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