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Thursday, June 26, 2014

South China Morning Post- China

China has demanded cooperation from the Iraqi government to "accurately assess" the security situation after troops reportedly turned back 1,300 Chinese employees of a state-owned enterprise who...
27 Jun 2014 - 3:08am
China and Russia are unlikely to form an alliance against the West despite presenting a united front over several conflicts, the German ambassador to China, Michael Clauss, says.
Updated 27 Jun 2014 - 8:30am
Two major generals in the PLA with connections to Sichuan province have been detained as part of a corruption investigation, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.
Updated 27 Jun 2014 - 8:48am
The mainland's top official in charge of Taiwan affairs had his first personal experience of everyday life on the island and said it would help him better understand local attitudes towards cross-...
Updated 27 Jun 2014 - 8:56am
Unlike other regional economic plans that focus mainly on development, the integration of the metropolises of Beijing and Tianjin with Hebei province will be more about implementing reform,...
Updated 27 Jun 2014 - 9:04am
Detained Uygur economist Ilham Tohti staged a hunger strike in jail and was later denied food for 10 days, his lawyer said after visiting him at a detention centre in Xinjiang.
27 Jun 2014 - 3:11am
Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin, tipped to run for president of Taiwan in two years, is due to meet senior leaders in Beijing. It is Hau's first official visit to Beijing, and analysts said it would...
27 Jun 2014 - 2:24am

Opinion

Taiwan and the mainland are to hold talks on allowing mainland visitors to use Taiwan as a transit point to travel to other countries, a move that would significantly benefit the island's tourism...
26 Jun 2014 - 7:39am
The United States and China are both crucial players in ensuring security in Asia-Pacific and can overcome their differences through "constructive engagement", Washington's ambassador to Beijing...
26 Jun 2014 - 8:10am
Wang Lin, a self-proclaimed qigong master suspected by mainland authorities of fraud and bribery, stepped out of hiding in Hong Kong and visited his hometown in Jiangxi province.
26 Jun 2014 - 2:39am
The head of a US$2 billion Chinese copper producer fell to his death from a building, the firm announced on Wednesday, with a state-run newspaper claiming he committed suicide following corruption...
25 Jun 2014 - 3:08pm
Li Peng, the retired premier who played a key role in the bloody crackdown of Tiananmen Square protest 25 years ago, published his official memoir yesterday.
25 Jun 2014 - 6:40pm
The House Appropriations Committee has included in its next year State Department budget a proposal to rename the stretch of road in front of the embassy “Liu Xiaobo Plaza”.
25 Jun 2014 - 11:50am
Restaurants in Yulin, Guangxi, at the centre of the dog meat controversy have hit back at animal rights activists by circulating photos of foreign reporters eating dog.
26 Jun 2014 - 1:37pm
China will act assertively at a regional meeting to discuss a code of conduct for the South China Sea amid rising tensions with its Southeast Asian neighbours over disputed waters, observers said...
25 Jun 2014 - 3:19am
Lawmakers in Beijing are considering amending the law on food safety that promises tougher rules on food production, sales and supervision.
25 Jun 2014 - 4:41am
In the style of his predecessors, the integration of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei is set to be the signature project of Xi’s administration.
25 Jun 2014 - 3:46pm
China's head of Taiwanese affairs is set to arrive in Taiwan today, the first time the mainland's most senior official in charge of cross-strait relations will set foot on the island, which has...
25 Jun 2014 - 8:27am
Controversial multi-millionaire Chen Guangbiao placed a full-page advertisement in the New York Times and a half-page advertisement in the Wall Street Journal, inviting 1,000 underprivileged...
26 Jun 2014 - 7:14am
China's supreme court has overturned the death sentence of a woman convicted of killing her husband after she endured months of domestic abuse, a member of her family said.
25 Jun 2014 - 4:32am
The agenda of the mainland's cross-straits ambassador, Zhang Zhijun, on his visit to Taiwan signals the growing clout of the island's main opposition party.
25 Jun 2014 - 4:41am
China's growth in local government debt has been slowing since the middle of last year, the National Audit Office said, but cautioned that some provinces were deferring the problem by repaying old...
25 Jun 2014 - 5:18am
Legendary Chinese oil trader "Crazy Yang" Qinglong, who started China's oil business with Iran in the 1990s and who is fondly remembered for bear-hugging Iranian officials, has died.
24 Jun 2014 - 6:53pm
The country’s top legislature is reviewing a proposed pilot system to fast-track processing of petty offences in 18 cities that legal experts view as a cautiously positive step to legal reform.
24 Jun 2014 - 6:37pm
President Xi Jinping’s order to revive the Communist Party’s decades-old “criticism and self-criticism” sessions has given rise to a new online business: ghost-writing lengthy self-critiques.
24 Jun 2014 - 7:43pm
A student who quit the University of Hong Kong (HKU) last year after she was awarded a full scholarship has scored top marks for the second time in the National College Entrance Exam.
24 Jun 2014 - 4:07pm
China has ambitious plans to touch down on Mars by 2020, likely with a rover, and to collect its own samples from the red planet 10 years after that, a top aerospace scientist has revealed.
24 Jun 2014 - 4:40pm

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