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PUBLISHED : Sunday, 13 March, 2016, 10:31pm UPDATED : Monday, 14 March, 2016, 12:31am In China, Soviet-era ‘rank’ system is crippling reform In a holdover from the central planning model, everything gets ranked for their ‘importance’. Some leading figures say it’s keeping the nation back Wang...

Chinese man arrested on suspicion of faking kidnap and demanding 60,000 yuan ransom to cover debts PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 02 February, 2016, 12:08pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 02 February, 2016, 12:08pm Gloria Chan [email protected] A photograph taken from a video of a Chinese ‘kidnap’ victim...

Five Chinese billionaires lose big as China stocks take swan dive in painful market rout Wanda and Fosun lead companies in ringing up losses PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 27 January, 2016, 4:02pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 27 January, 2016, 7:11pm Daniel Ren [email protected] The chairman of Dalian...

China’s quit-smoking efforts under fire as more take up the habit PUBLISHED : Thursday, 28 January, 2016, 12:07am UPDATED : Thursday, 28 January, 2016, 12:07am Zhuang Pinghui [email protected] The government aims to cut smoking from 28.1 per cent of adults to below 25 per cent, but a...

Exclusive - China's chief stock regulator has offered to resign - sources Reuters January 18, 2016, 9:41 pm China Securities Regulatory Commission Chairman Xiao Gang addresses the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong January 19, 2015. REUTERS/Bobby Yip By Benjamin Kang Lim and Kevin Yao...

Exclusive - China's chief stock regulator has offered to resign - sources Reuters January 18, 2016, 9:41 pm China Securities Regulatory Commission Chairman Xiao Gang addresses the Asian Financial Forum in Hong Kong January 19, 2015. REUTERS/Bobby Yip By Benjamin Kang Lim and Kevin Yao...

Tip of the iceberg? Underground banks siphoned 207 billion yuan out of Chinese province in just one year PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 12 January, 2016, 11:38pm UPDATED : Tuesday, 12 January, 2016, 11:38pm Mimi Lau in Guangzhou [email protected] Some 700 million yuan had been transferred by suspects...

Gang of 20 busted in China for making and selling fake 20-yuan bank notes The bills were printed, gilted, lacquered with a thin film, soaked in soy sauce, dried and worn out by a wooden scraper before they were introduced into the market as real money PUBLISHED : Thursday, 07 January, 2016...

Gang of 20 busted in China for making and selling fake 20-yuan bank notes The bills were printed, gilted, lacquered with a thin film, soaked in soy sauce, dried and worn out by a wooden scraper before they were introduced into the market as real money PUBLISHED : Thursday, 07 January, 2016...

2nd human H5N6 avian flu reported in S. China Xinhua, January 4, 2016 A second human H5N6 avian flu case has been reported in south China's Guangdong Province within a week, health authorities said on Monday. The new patient is a 40-year-old woman from Zhaoqing City. She is in a serious...

Woman critically ill in Shenzhen after catching H5N6 strain of bird flu PUBLISHED : Wednesday, 30 December, 2015, 12:06pm UPDATED : Wednesday, 30 December, 2015, 12:06pm Staff Reporter File picture of a cull of chickens in Shanghai to combat the spread of another strain of bird flu. Photo...

Beijing’s choking smog hits red-alert level: schools, factories to close Second stretch of high pollution to hit Beijing as school students forced inside PUBLISHED : Monday, 07 December, 2015, 9:20pm UPDATED : Monday, 07 December, 2015, 9:43pm Keira Lu Huang [email protected]...

Two volunteers for an environmental NGO investigating industrial pollution and wetland destruction caused by Ni Hejin Industrial Park in Ningde were arrested for “suspected prostitution” by local police yesterday. Local police announced that the two were released this morning. NGO staff...

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Two volunteers for an environmental NGO investigating industrial pollution and wetland destruction caused by Ni Hejin Industrial Park in Ningde were arrested for “suspected prostitution” by local police yesterday. Local police announced that the two were released this morning. NGO staff...

Guangdong plans to tackle online prostitution China Daily, December 4, 2015 A hostel in a former read-light district in Dongguan, Guangdong province. [File photo] The police will set up a special task force to investigate and squelch the online promotion of prostitution, which has been...

99 percent of Ultraman mobile games in China pirated, says agent Source: Xinhua Published: 2015-11-15 19:18:01 Iconic Japanese comic and anime superhero Ultraman is facing an intellectual property battle in China, as an agent complains that 99 percent of the mobile games featuring the...

Mao money, Mao problems: China's cash machines ‘snub’ new hi-tech 100-yuan notes Problems occur on Friday - one day after the red note worth just under US$16, emblazoned with a portrait of Communist China’s founder Mao Zedong on the front, went into circulation PUBLISHED : Friday, 13...

Mao money, Mao problems: China's cash machines ‘snub’ new hi-tech 100-yuan notes Problems occur on Friday - one day after the red note worth just under US$16, emblazoned with a portrait of Communist China’s founder Mao Zedong on the front, went into circulation PUBLISHED : Friday, 13 November...