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Li Na Sails Into Australian Open Semis

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 09:00 PM PST

Li Na's campaign for a second Grand Slam title continued in impressive fashion on Tuesday as the Chinese tennis rebel put an end to fourth seed Agnieszka Radwanska's 13-match win streak.

First privacy protection standards introduced in China

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 05:03 AM PST

Anonymous messages, strange calls and spam may stop harassing Chinese residents, as a national standard on personal information protection will become effective on Feb. 1. According to the non-obli...

Quarter of Lunar New Year food items in Taipei substandard

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 05:03 AM PST

In the run-up to the Lunar New Year festival, the most important holiday in the Chinese calendar, Taipei health authorities have found substandard traditional Lunar New Year food products being sold i...

55 TV ads pulled from China's airwaves for violations

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 04:59 AM PST

China's top communications watchdog has ordered a broadcast ban for 55 advertisements for consultation and TV shopping services, as they have violated broadcasting regulations. The State Administr...

Anti-graft drive prompts mysterious sell-off of luxury properties

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 04:55 AM PST

The new crackdown on corruption being pursued by China's new leadership, including the introduction of requirements for public officials to declare their assets, has sparked panic among unscrupulous o...

Beware 'social cost' of economic ties with China: DPP heavyweight

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 04:55 AM PST

A Taiwanese opposition party politician known for being a staunch supporter of Taiwanese independence said during his first visit to China on Monday that the country is an "unavoidable" and "undeniabl...

Guangdong official asks to 'borrow' orphans ahead of inspection

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 04:31 AM PST

In a Buddhist temple in China's southern Guangdong province, a man asked the abbot if he would lend the local government a dozen orphans ahead of an inspection. The abbot refused the request. This ...

Pulitzer prizewinner shares war photographer experiences in Taipei

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 04:31 AM PST

An American Pulitzer Prize winner shared her experience as a war photographer at a talk in Taipei on Sunday and stressed that making people care was an important part of her job. Carolyn Cole, a ph...

Henan illegal foster home not an anomaly in China

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 04:11 AM PST

For at least three months, Ban Aihua has tried to legalize her privately run foster home, a humble shelter for 68 children. Her plea to register the home as a non-governmental charity agency has fa...

Firms to invest US$2bn in shale gas exploration in China

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 03:59 AM PST

Sixteen Chinese firms have pledged to invest 12.8 billion yuan (US$2 billion) in shale gas discovery and development over the next three years, the Ministry of Land and Resources said Monday. The c...

Chinese luxury brands attempt cross-sector development

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 03:51 AM PST

Several luxury fashion brands in China are trying to embrace cross-line operations, emulating the practices of foreign luxury brands such as Gucci, Chanel, Hermes, and Armani, which have opened coffee...

Giant Interactive assisting police over possible money laundering

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 03:43 AM PST

The chairman and chief executive officer of Shanghai-based online game developer Giant Interactive Group, Shi Yuzhu, has said in a statement to Henan's Dahe Daily that his company is willing to cooper...

Shanghai GDP tops US$321bn in 2012

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 03:43 AM PST

Shanghai's GDP grew 7.5% year-on-year to exceed 2 trillion yuan (US$321 billion) in 2012, official figures showed Monday. The data, released by the Shanghai Bureau of Statistics, placed the city o...

Bank card charges cut in China to boost consumer spending

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 03:43 AM PST

China's government said Monday it will lower bank card charges for businesses ranging from retailers to property developers in order to reduce their burdens and boost consumption. The move will tak...

What Real Estate Says About China's True Wealth Gap

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 07:47 PM PST

On Friday, China released official statistics about its wealth gap for the first time in years.

Chinese Academy of Sciences establishes overseas branches

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 03:31 AM PST

China's leading scientific institution is aiming to expand its influence by establishing overseas branches around the world, the Chinese Academy of Sciences announced on Monday. The Academy has start...

IMF warns Hong Kong of record real estate prices

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 03:27 AM PST

People living in Hong Kong bear the burden of the world's heaviest real estate prices, with the average market price 12.6 times their average annual salaries, a report released by the International Mo...

Beijing may overtake Atlanta as world's busiest airport this year

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 03:27 AM PST

Beijing's Capital International will become the world's busiest airport by the end of the year, replacing Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson, according a report in USA Today. Predicting that China will a...

Taiwanese managers headhunted for China's department store chains

Posted: 22 Jan 2013 03:11 AM PST

With consumer culture on the rise in China, department store operators are investing heavily in recruiting Taiwanese operations and sales professionals to expand their business. Chu Yuen-lung, prev...

Coming to a City Near You: More Chinese Shoppers

Posted: 21 Jan 2013 07:06 PM PST

If you thought the throngs of Chinese tourists in Hong Kong, Paris or London couldn't get any bigger, think again: The age of the globe-trotting Chinese shopper has just begun, according to consulting firm KPMG.

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