State TV official has been detained in the latest sign that President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign is stretching far and wide

The author is ANZ greater China chief economist Liu Li-Gang China’s official purchasing managers' index (PMI), the bellwether of large industrial firms, picked up for the second consecutive month to 50.8 in May from April’s 50.4. In the meantime, the HSBC PMI, representing a group of private-sector and small and medium enterprises, surged to 49.7 […]

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The sources of instability in the Asia-Pacific region include not only the threat of weapons of mass destruction, but also – and more immediately – efforts to alter the territorial status quo through force or coercion. And those efforts are taking place largely at sea.

While the UN celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2015, Koreans will lament 70 years of national division. Considering all of the challenges and opportunities that the divided peninsula faces – and will continue to confront in the coming years – unification remains an important goal that we must continue to pursue.

Chinese-Australian artist Guo Jian was detained on Sunday just three days ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre

China’s official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index (PMI) rose to 50.8 in May from April's 50.4, hitting five-month’s high, according to data released by China’s National Bureau of Statistics. The gauge has been climbing for a continuous three months, indicating the economy may be stabilizing. The new order index went up to 52.3 from April’s 51.2, reaching […]

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Despite gloominess about the Chinese currency becoming more entrenched, the outlook for the country’s economy seems to be brightening

Growth can be robust or consumption-led but not both

Rising wage costs and growing competition is forcing the former manual labour ‘workshop of the world’ to turn increasingly to technology

Beijing has detained dozens of people in an operation to stop commemorations of an event that authorities have tried to wipe from the nation’s collective memory

Top Chinese general accused US and Japan of staging ‘provocative actions’ against China, as maritime tensions spilled into an Asian regional defence forum