Chinese New Year Tourists Ditch Thailand's Protests For Bali's Beaches
Chinese tourists flocked to Thailand for Spring Festival last year, but political strife has them looking elsewhere in Southeast Asia for the upcoming holiday. more »China...
View ArticleChinese Activists Test New Leader and Are Crushed
The 20 or so activists gathered at an isolated guesthouse on the outskirts of the capital, leaving their cellphones behind to avoid detection by the police. China's first leadership change in a decade...
View ArticleOffshore Leaks China: How We Did It
The tight group of journalists gathering in Hong Kong on a rainy summer morning had arrived from all over: Beijing, Taipei, New York, Madrid, Washington, Berkeley and Munich. A veteran Chinese...
View Article'House of Cards' finds avid audience in China
Frank Underwood -- the scheming U.S. congressman in the Netflix drama "House of Cards" -- may be the most murderous, morally corrupt, conniving politician in Washington. And the Chinese can't get...
View ArticleParty's Graft Fighter Says It Is Investigating Hainan Deputy Governor
Ji Wenlin, who is suspected of 'serious discipline violations,' becomes 18th high official to tumble since autumn 2012 more »China NewshainancorruptioncaixinJi Wenlinpoliticscorruption in politics
View ArticleVoices for Change and Democracy at a Hong Kong Fair
Groups seeking political change and democracy in Hong Kong express themselves at a Lunar New Year fair and sell items such as toilet paper, shirts, and grass-mud horses. more »Hong Kong Newshong...
View ArticleMichelle Obama, daughters to visit China this month
First lady Michelle Obama will travel to China this month with her daughters, Malia and Sasha, and her mother, Marian Robinson, for a trip built on the theme of education, her office announced Monday....
View ArticleReally Important Communist Party Meetings For Dummies
Not a month goes by without talk of some really, really, high-level meeting, where incredibly important things get discussed, debated, and discussed some more. There are so many of them it, it is all a...
View ArticleMichelle Obama’s China Trip: ‘Style Showdown’? Try ‘Style Diplomacy’
Although media accounts of the U.S. First Lady's week-long China trip are all about a "fashion showdown," Michelle Obama's outfits have clearly been planned in the name of friendship. more »China...
View ArticleSevering a Family's Ties, China's President Signals a Change
A corruption inquiry targeting the retired Communist Party leader Zhou Yongkang and his family could challenge a tacit rule that has allowed elite clans to accumulate vast wealth. more »China NewsZhou...
View ArticleA Controversial New TV Series Awakens China's Historical Ghosts
Chinese prime time television entertainment is usually frothy fare, with reality shows, martial arts soaps, and anti-Japanese spy series vying for ratings on a nightly basis. But the airing of a...
View ArticleN Korean Defectors Held On China-Laos Border not to be returned to DPRK
A group of North Koreans defectors have been detained on the Chinese border with Laos in the latest crackdown by Chinese authorities who repatriate North Koreans found illegally in China. But in a rare...
View ArticleChina's Top Graft Buster, Wang Qishan, Probing Thousands
When Wang Qishan, China's top graft-buster, dispatched a dozen investigators to this south China river town last summer, his message was clear: The investigators should inspire "shock and awe" among...
View ArticleChina, India ponder immense international trade corridor
Chinese president Xi Jinping arrived in Gujarat, India on September 17, kicking off a three-day trip to the Subcontinent. As he did a little more than a year ago in Beijing with Manmohan Singh, Xi will...
View ArticleYunnan government weathers unexpected power shake-up
The government of Yunnan completed a reshuffle of its top members a bit more than two and half years ago amid some confusion. At the time, Kunming's golden boy party secretary, Qiu He, received what...
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