Chinese who have studied overseas and returned to China find it particularly difficult to find a life partner so the state is giving them a helping hand

Beijing has rejected claims by Hanoi that a Chinese fishing vessel rammed and sank a Vietnamese fishing boat in disputed waters in the South China Sea

The Chinese Communist Party will try to eliminate all mention of what happened at Tiananmen Square 25 years ago for fear of triggering renewed calls for human rights and democracy. But, though the anniversary will pass without official acknowledgment, the protesters’ demands have not gone away, and they cannot be suppressed forever.

When it comes to geopolitics, there is always a market for gloom, and business has been booming in this respect lately. But, though global political conditions are hardly as good as they could be – they never are – there are plenty of grounds for thinking they are not nearly as bad as so many are claiming.

Slowing economic growth, a crackdown on corruption and the rise of online shopping are hitting sales at Chinese bricks and mortar stores

The author is ANZ greater China chief economist Liu Li-Gang China’s property market witnessed a bumpy start in 2014 after a double-digit property prices surge last year. The new home sales in all tiers of Chinese cities dropped sharply in the past few months, and the unsold new home inventories have picked up significantly since […]

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The author is Standard & Poor’s Financial Services Over the past few decades, we've witnessed an increase in extreme weather events. In 2013, reinsurance group Munich Reinsurance Co. recorded 888 loss-related natural catastrophe events worldwide, slightly down from the 936 events recorded in 2012 but above the 10-year average of 822. Of the 888 documented […]

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China's Huishan Dairy Holdings Company Limited and Netherlands' Royal FrieslandCampina N.V. have reportedly entered into exclusive talks for creating a joint venture to produce and sell infant milk formula in China. The purpose of the joint venture is to set up a fully integrated infant milk formula supply chain. With the joint venture, Huishan and […]

Chinese online game developer and operator Giant announced the establishment of its web game publishing center for the publishing and operation of web game products developed and operated exclusively by Giant. Wu Meng, Giant's vice president, will lead this new publishing venture. Wu joined Giant at the beginning of 2012 and set up Juzi Network, […]