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Japan's car sales slammed in China, S Korea and domestic brands surge

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 05:14 AM PDT

China's Great Wall Motors Company and South Korea's Chinese joint venture in China Beijing Hyundai have been performing well while the sales of Japan's car brands have continued to bomb, according to ...

Uighurs fighting Syrian forces: Chinese daily

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 05:33 PM PDT

Chinese Muslim separatists from the northwest region of Xinjiang are battling Syrian government forces alongside al-Qaida and other extremist groups, an official Chinese newspaper reported on Monday.


Brit with marriage ties to Xi is 'China's most influential foreigner'

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 05:02 AM PDT

Daniel Foa, a 36-year-old British businessman is reported by the country's Daily Telegraph to be the best connected foreigner in China because of his ties by marriage to Xi Jinping, China's leader-in-...

Fujian man charged with murder, rape, sentenced to death

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 04:50 AM PDT

A female office worker in China's southern Fujian province was killed by a unemployed man in August 2011. The man, Chen Haiping, found out where she lived after seeing her address and phone number on ...

Shandong writers chief denies touting self for Nobel prize

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 04:34 AM PDT

The head of the writers' association of eastern China'a Shandong province has angrily denied sending his own works to a Nobel literature judge in the hope of being nominated for the prize, reports the...

Taiwanese former naval officer arrested for spying for China

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 04:26 AM PDT

A retired Taiwanese naval officer has been arrested on suspicion of collecting classified information for China, the country's Ministry of National Defense said Monday. According to a ministry s...

Microsoft urged to increase applications for Surface tablet

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 04:26 AM PDT

Microsoft needs to expand its pool of Windows applications to help its Surface tablet gain popularity against Apple's iPad and other models using Google's Android software, Digitimes Research said rec...

Asian economies brace for impact of hot money

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 04:26 AM PDT

The enormous influx of hot money into the Asian capital market toward the end of October has prompted monetary authorities in Hong Kong, South Korea and Thailand to adopt preventive measures that rest...

ZTE Quietly Grabs Larger Chunk of Smartphone Market

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 08:27 PM PDT

Chinese telecommunications equipment maker ZTE has been quietly increasing its smartphone market presence.

Territorial dispute with China hurts Japan's department stores

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 04:14 AM PDT

A recent survey published by a Japanese retailers association has found that spending by Chinese tourists in Japan's department stores has dropped by 40% following the escalation of the territorial d...

RMB appreciation room limited despite recent strengthening: experts

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 04:14 AM PDT

China's renminbi, or the yuan, has strengthened against the US dollar in the past month, but room for the currency to further appreciate is limited in the long run, experts have said. The yuan closed...

China Southern Airlines Q3 net profit drops 29%

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:38 AM PDT

Chinese airline giant China Southern Airlines said on Sunday its net profit tumbled 29.25% year on year to reach 2.22 billion yuan (US$352.4 million) in the third quarter of this year. The decline ...

Alibaba leads internet giants' foray into mobile internet

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:38 AM PDT

Despite a row with Google over its own mobile operating system called Aliyun OS, Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group will continue with its foray into the mobile internet industry. Reportedly buckli...

China Construction Bank net profit up 13.8%

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 03:26 AM PDT

China Construction Bank (CCB), the country's second-largest state-owned bank, said its net profit rose 13.8% year-on-year to 158.19 billion yuan (US$25.1 billion) in the first three quarters of this ...

Top China Stories from WSJ: Philip Morris Strategy, Taiwan Spy Case

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 06:58 PM PDT

Philip Morris International is trying to raise its profile in China by moving beyond simple smokes; a retired Taiwanese naval officer and two others were arrested on suspicion of spying for China.

China's crude steel output slows sharply in January-September

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:54 AM PDT

The output of China's steel industry slowed significantly in the first three quarters of 2012, according to data provided by the country's top economic planner on Sunday. Crude steel production incr...

German Nobel Prize winner joins Chinese university

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:54 AM PDT

German scientist and winner of the Nobel Prize for physics in 2007, Peter Grunberg, officially joined the staff at a Chinese university on Saturday. Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications...

Increasingly high rent offsets profits in China's cities

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:54 AM PDT

The annual growth rate of commercial property rent on average has reached two-digit figures in China's major commercial areas over the past two years, reports Shanghai-based First Financial Daily. T...

Chinese spouses eligible for Taiwan ID in 4 years, says Ma

Posted: 30 Oct 2012 01:54 AM PDT

President Ma Ying-jeou pledged Saturday to shorten the amount of time Chinese spouses of Taiwanese nationals have to wait to obtain IDs to four years, from the present six years. The president said h...

China News Broadcast, October 29, 2012: Wen Jiabao' Family Hits Back

Posted: 29 Oct 2012 05:26 PM PDT

the family of Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has hit back at a New York Times report that claimed they control more than $2.7 billion in assets. Authorities in Ningbo, Zhejiang province halt expansion plans for an oil refinery, following days of protests.

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