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Several thousand government officials in the Henan province surrendered 72.07 million yuan (US$11.89 million) worth of cash, securities and gifts received during 2013, as part of an effort to comply with the province’s anti-corruption campaign, the...

President Xi Jinping {習近平} will travel to the Russian port city of Sochi to attend the Winter Olympic Games opening ceremony on Friday, China News Service reported Thursday. Xi is making his first visit to the...

Philippine President Benigno Aquino III said recently that his country cannot fight China on its own and that it needs international support over territorial issues, the Hong Kong Economic Journal reported Thursday. Philippines will not give...

Denying the Nanjing massacre ever occurred is an open challenge to human conscience and international justice as the brutal acts had already been confirmed with iron-clad proof, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on its website...

Widespread sleet in China’s northern and eastern regions on Wednesday has led to the partial closure of 69 expressways and some car accidents on frozen road surfaces, Beijing News reported Thursday. Also, train schedules went awry...

Macau’s casinos generated 28.74 billion patacas (US$3.59 billion) in revenue in January, up just 7 percent from a year earlier and marking the slowest growth since October 2012, the city’s Gaming, Inspection and Coordination Bureau said...

GlaxoSmithKline PLC managed to increase sales marginally last year despite problems in China, reversing two years of falling revenue, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. The UK firm has been struggling to offset a drag on sales from...

A total of 22.4 million students in nearly 100,000 rural schools across China have benefited from the government’s nutrition improvement trial scheme that began in fall semester of 2011, Beijing Times reported Thursday, citing information from...

The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) will centralize data collection and submission by internet by 2015 as part of an upgrade of its statistics service, the official Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday. The new system will cover...

China will give local governments across the nation a free hand to set water rates and implement tiered pricing to encourage users to cut back on the essential resource. China, with 19 percent of the world’s...

More than 80,000 mainland tourists visited Taiwan during the five-day Lunar New Year holiday, spending an estimated NT$3.5 billion (US$115.27 million), Economic Daily News reported Wednesday without citing any source. Tourists traveling in groups averaged 7,327...

The National Meteorological Center said Tuesday that snow and freezing rain will sweep central and eastern China in the following three days, with temperatures in these regions expected to drop by up to 12 degrees Celsius,...

The anti-graft campaign led by President Xi Jinping {習近平} has prompted people to look for ways to circumvent the ban on gift-giving to government officials during the Chinese New Year, Beijing Times reported Wednesday. Instead of...

Health authorities in Mongolia have confirmed an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in Sukhbaatar province, the official Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. Eighty-six head of cattle of 15 herder families are infected and 82 were culled. Symptoms were...

China has scrapped a deal to buy 1.2 million tons of Thai rice, about 14 per cent of annual exports, because of a corruption probe into Bangkok’s troubled agricultural subsidies scheme, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. A...

A ruling against the Chinese affiliates of the Big Four accounting firms over their refusal to cooperate with US regulators has drawn attention to a questionable practice of some of the firms’ Hong Kong units, the...

Shenzhen is offering loans for high school graduates who want to start their own business as part of efforts to boost employment in the southern city, the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported Tuesday, citing a notice...

The China Notary Association will publish rules on multiple notarial services for private lending and demolition or relocation of homes, Southern Metropolis Daily reported Monday, citing chairman Ding Lu. The regulations are necessary to control risk...

Shenzhen has raised its minimum wage to 1,808 yuan (US$298.28) per month, up 13 percent from a year ago, while the minimum pay for part-time workers has been set at 16.5 yuan per hour, Tencent’s qq.com reported...

Tseng Ming-chung, chairman of Taiwan’s Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC), said on Monday that the regulator is planning to adopt some measures to enhance the contribution of the financial sector to the economy, which he expects to...