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Lucy Hornby works from Beijing. Financial Times deputy bureau chief in Beijing. 金融时报北京分社副社长 Lucy Hornby has over 46801 followers on Twitter.
A new scheme has been created with the hope it will cool popular anger over high housing prices in China — but the numbers don’t add up enough.
China’s band dissidents believe awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to one of their own could bring change to the world’s most populous country.
A magnitude 6,9 earthquake on Wednesday killed about 300 people in the mountainous Tibetan Plateau in south-west China.
It was called ”the gentleman’s C”, the grade that scions of wealthy families could achieve while waltzing through university with a minimum of study.
China has issued new internet regulations, including what appears to be an effort to create a ”whitelist” of approved websites.
Chinese investors in Africa, long used to low-interest policy loans, are being reluctantly pushed towards commercial lending.
Security forces used tear gas to break up protests on Friday, as thousands of Han Chinese demanded better security after a spate of syringe attacks.
China denounced a proposed trip to Taiwan by the Dalai Lama on Thursday, saying any such visit threatened to ”sabotage” improving relations.
Australia summoned China’s ambassador on Monday for a second time to press for details of the detention of Rio Tinto’s top iron ore salesperson.
Access to popular social networking service Twitter and email service Hotmail was blocked across mainland China late on Tuesday afternoon.
The Beijing-backed Panchen Lama addressed an international Buddhist audience in English on Saturday, as officially atheist China turned to Buddhism.
Bundled in city clothes, Zhao Yongfeng slumped in front of a television set and tried to ignore the red-cheeked children in padded jackets.
Talks pressing North Korea to abandon its nuclear-arms ambitions limped into a fourth day on Thursday.
The new face of Aids in China is a shy man with a heavy provincial accent, a weathered face and the rough hands of a manual worker.
Climate change could cut SA’s maize crop by 20% as the west of the country dries out while the east is afflicted with increasingly severe storms.
On a hillside above a collapsed middle school in Sichuan, biohazard workers in white suits scattered lime and sprayed disinfectant on hundreds of small, fresh graves, while two…
China has found what it termed 50 ”hazardous sources of radiation” due to last week’s earthquake, a senior official said on Friday, though he insisted the situation was under…
From tent cities in stricken Sichuan province to Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, sirens wailed and millions of Chinese stood for three minutes on Monday to mourn tens of thousands…
Xing Houyuan’s advice to investors who seek her out is patient and practical: do due diligence on any potential partner, clarify its ties to the government and make sure you…
