Soldiers of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) take part in a combat training in the Gobi desert in Jiuquan, Gansu province, China China’s armed forces must strengthen their sense of urgency and do everything they can to prepare for battle, President Xi Jinping told a meeting of top brass on Friday. China is […] Read more
China’s cybersecurity police on Thursday announced a new campaign targeting websites and web applications that spread what they called “negative information” on the internet. The six-month crackdown officially started this month, according to a notice posted on the Cyberspace Administration of China’s website. During the clampdown, all websites, mobile phone apps, forums, instant messaging and […] Read more
Beijing has appointed a vice-minister of commerce to be its top official in Macau, in a move seen as the central government’s bid to strengthen economic ties with Portuguese-speaking nations amid an ongoing trade war with the United States. Commentators and lawmakers believe that the appointment of Fu Ziying as director of the central government’s […] Read more
Residents of Kowloon City where as many as 10,000 mainland day-trippers on cheap Hong Kong tours have disrupted local lives could soon get a respite after authorities on Thursday pledged to come down hard on illegal parking and unseemly foot traffic. The government will take action from next Wednesday to curb the long-running problems presented […] Read more
Hong Kong’s transport giant has played down the safety failures being unearthed daily at the city’s most expensive rail project ever, as it tried to scotch suggestions that it should rip up newly built platforms and start again. Reporting progress on the investigation by the MTR Corporation on the Sha Tin-Central link at Hung Hom […] Read more
Indonesia this week opened a military base with more than 1,000 personnel on the southern tip of the disputed South China Sea, where the territorial claims of China and several other countries overlap. The base, which opened on Tuesday, is located in Selat Lampa on Natuna Besar Island – part of the Natuna Islands – […] Read more
Canadian consular officials are assisting a third Canadian citizen detained by Chinese authorities, as the row deepens between Beijing and Ottawa over the arrest of a Chinese tech executive. Global Affairs Canada spokeswoman Maegan Graveline on Wednesday confirmed that another Canadian national had been detained in China, without giving details of the person’s identity or […] Read more
A ferry that sank off Thailand’s southern resort island of Phuket this summer killing 47 Chinese tourists did not meet regulatory standards, according to investigators. The sinking of the Phoenix on July 5 was one of Thailand’s worst tourism-related disasters in recent memory. Three of the boat’s operators have been charged with negligence causing death […] Read more
Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed his nation Tuesday morning in Beijing to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China’s “reform and opening up” — and he struck a relatively defiant tone in response to international calls for changes to his country’s economy. His remarks focused on how China’s Communist Party guided the nation to its economic […] Read more
China will try to develop “a powerful home market” to help offset external uncertainties next year, the country’s top leadership agreed on Thursday, roughly two weeks into a 90-day truce in the trade war with the United States. The Politburo, the country’s highest decision-making body, said China still had a “strategic window of opportunity” and […] Read more
