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• Fraud, Culture and the Law: Can China Change?
• Railways minister to be tried before 18th National Congress: Duowei
• China's manufacturing activity worsens in August: HSBC
• HNA Group undergoes major restructuring
• HIV tests up in Taiwan after last Chinese Valentine's Day: CDC
• UMC suspends new solar energy investments
• Deutsche Bank upbeat about HTC's new investment
• Four new beetle species discovered in southern Taiwan
• China announces second rare earth export quota for 2012
• Chinese anti-corruption official hopeful of improvement
• China unveils ambitious space study projects
• KFC opens 300th restaurant in Beijing
• He Guoqiang pledges five-year anti-graft plan for China
• China further cuts administrative approval items
• Low-altitude airspace to open up across China from 2013
• Harvard project to hold Asia conference in Taipei
• Culture is not a weapon, Taiwan minister says in US
• ‘Chinese takeaway from India’s northeast’
• Top China Stories from WSJ: New Missile Defenses, Islands Row, Yuan Use to Widen
• Chinese airline partners with Boeing to make biofuel

Fraud, Culture and the Law: Can China Change? Posted: 23 Aug 2012 09:09 PM PDT The persistence and extent of fraud in China, despite a near constant string of crackdowns and arrests, raises fundamental questions about cultural forces in Chinese society that limit the reach of law.

Railways minister to be tried before 18th National Congress: Duowei Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:30 AM PDT The corruption trial of China's former railways minister Liu Zhijun will be held next month in Liaoning province in the country's northeast. It is expected that Liu will be sentence to life imprisonme...

China's manufacturing activity worsens in August: HSBC Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:18 AM PDT China's manufacturing activity continued to struggle in August as orders from overseas declined at their sharpest rate since March 2009. The flash China manufacturing purchase manager index (PMI) hit...

HNA Group undergoes major restructuring Posted: 24 Aug 2012 05:18 AM PDT Chinese aviation conglomerate HNA Group has made major adjustments to its operation recently, with Hainan Airlines completing 8 billion yuan (US$1.26 billion) of cash capital increment last week. The ...

HIV tests up in Taiwan after last Chinese Valentine's Day: CDC Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:30 AM PDT Taiwan's Centers for Disease Control said Thursday that the number of people seeking anonymous HIV tests increased by 43% after Chinese Valentine's Day last year, highlighting the importance of safe ...

UMC suspends new solar energy investments Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:26 AM PDT United Microelectronics Corp, the world's second largest contract chip maker, said Wednesday it has decided to suspend its new investments in the solar energy sector because of the market uncertainty ...

Deutsche Bank upbeat about HTC's new investment Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:26 AM PDT Taiwanese smartphone vendor HTC has made some poor investment decisions in recent years, but its acquisition of a stake in Magnet Systems could pay off by boosting its competitiveness, Deutsche Bank h...

Four new beetle species discovered in southern Taiwan Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:26 AM PDT A Taiwanese team has found four new species of darkling beetles in southern Taiwan, the Kenting National Park Headquarters said Wednesday. Three of them were new discoveries worldwide, while the othe...

China announces second rare earth export quota for 2012 Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:14 AM PDT China's Ministry of Commerce on Wednesday announced the second batch of rare earth export quotas for this year, totaling 9,770 tonnes. The latest quotas, including 8,537 tonnes of light rare earth me...

Chinese anti-corruption official hopeful of improvement Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:14 AM PDT A senior anti-corruption official in China has warned of challenges facing the supervision of government power but is confident of the situation will improve. There has been an increasing number of c...

China unveils ambitious space study projects Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:06 AM PDT China will launch several space projects, including a hard x-ray telescope for black hole studies, between 2014 and 2016, according to a senior Chinese astronomer. Su Dingqiang, an academic at the Ch...

KFC opens 300th restaurant in Beijing Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:06 AM PDT Yum! Brands has opened its 300th KFC franchise in Beijing, 25 years after entering the Chinese market, the company said Tuesday. The new KFC drive-through restaurant is located in a furniture mall al...

He Guoqiang pledges five-year anti-graft plan for China Posted: 24 Aug 2012 04:06 AM PDT China will implement a five-year plan for eliminating corruption after the upcoming national congress of the Communist Party of China, top official He Guoqiang said on Tuesday. He, a member of the St...

China further cuts administrative approval items Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:58 AM PDT The State Council, China's cabinet, has decided to remove or modify 314 administrative examination and approval items in order to further clear systematic obstacles for its social and economic develop...

Low-altitude airspace to open up across China from 2013 Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:54 AM PDT China will relax the ban on the use of low-altitude airspace across the country starting in 2013, the country's air traffic authorities said Thursday. A series of reforms will be implemented in five ...

Harvard project to hold Asia conference in Taipei Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:54 AM PDT The Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations, a non-profit body under the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences, will host its annual Asia Conference in Taipei from Aug. 24-28, ...

Culture is not a weapon, Taiwan minister says in US Posted: 24 Aug 2012 03:54 AM PDT Taiwan's culture minister, Lung Ying-tai, said in New York on Wednesday that there are still many barriers to cultural exchanges across the Taiwan Strait and that both sides should allow more such int...

‘Chinese takeaway from India’s northeast’ Posted: 23 Aug 2012 04:57 PM PDT A newspaper affiliated to the Communist Party of China on Thursday said they have lessons to learn from the rumors concerning people from India's northeast that caused widespread disturbances in the country.

Top China Stories from WSJ: New Missile Defenses, Islands Row, Yuan Use to Widen Posted: 23 Aug 2012 06:34 PM PDT The U.S. is planning a major expansion of missile defenses in Asia; the flare-up in tensions between Japan and three neighbors has been stoked by a shift in the balance of power in Northeast Asia; China aims to turn a trickle of cross-border trade that is settled in yuan into a stream.

Chinese airline partners with Boeing to make biofuel Posted: 24 Aug 2012 02:10 AM PDT Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China has announced its cooperation with US aircraft company Boeing in the production of aviation biofuel sourced from waste oil from China's restaurants. This i...

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