CCDI will keep up pressure on extravagant spending ahead of festive season and says corruption is becoming harder to detect.
Activist surrendered passport as part of national security investigation but says police gave it back after she took part in Shenzhen trip they arranged.
Xi says China wants to work with Belarus towards greater ‘pragmatic cooperation’.
China, the world’s largest tobacco producer and consumer, estimated to contribute around 20 per cent of the global cost.
The surprise sting operation is prompting a rethink of the recent surge of foreign investors, amid signs dirty money is joining legitimate businesses in the rush to Singapore, with cash winding up at global lenders.
China’s Southern Theatre Command says American combat ship entered waters near the Second Thomas Shoal, violating ‘China’s sovereignty and security’.
China has set a goal of reaching peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030, but a report says it is likely to delay efforts to deliver on agricultural sustainability goals until then.
Lindsey McAlister, founder of Hong Kong Youth Arts Foundation, and Arthur de Villepin, co-founder of art gallery Villepin Gallery, offer their take on city’s efforts to become Asia’s leading arts destination.
The Southeast Asian nation has the largest geothermal reserves in the world, but experts are split over whether game-changing amounts of energy can be produced given the costs of drilling and insufficient government support.
The bodies of the climbers were discovered on Monday as a search for 12 more missing people was temporarily halted over safety concerns.
Police are looking into at least two suspects they believe were behind the blast that killed at least four people during a service at a university gymnasium in Marawi, which Islamic State militants claimed.
People who sat for 10 hours a day or more greatly elevated their dementia risk, a study finds. An expert explains the dangers of a sedentary lifestyle, and how even light aerobic exercise can help.
‘I don’t think anyone, Beijing included, has the illusion of being able to change the political situation in Hong Kong overnight,’ Leung Chun-ying says.
Hong Kong records significant 43.6 per cent drop in newly reported HIV infections, from 725 in 2015 to 409 last year.
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A court in China has granted a woman a personal safety protection order after her husband banned her from working and cut off all contact with her friends and family.
The money was meant to help farmers to buy equipment as part of the bigger national cause of food security but in at least one case the machinery was soon unusable, according to report.
City leader points to Hong Kong’s growth in exports, imports, visitor numbers and consumption as signs of recovery after ‘pandemic haze’.
The social media giant has joined peers Baidu and Alibaba in offering AI model development as a service.
‘The arts give us a really good chance to learn to understand each other and see each other’s points of view,’ says director general Barbera Wolfensberger.
A think tank has recommended the establishment of a common market in China’s Greater Bay Area, proposing a system of regional integration similar to the European Union.
The platform aims to help organisations verify the credibility of cross-order data based on the blockchain, enhancing smooth data flows across Greater Bay Area.
Association of the Pharmaceutical Industry says one stop shop for biomedical trials would mean end to ‘lack of communication’ between different bodies.
Despite the danger, some Thais and Sri Lankans see working in Israel as a means to beat the poverty trap in their homelands.
A trio of historic Hong Kong ‘squatter’ villages face destruction, destined to be replaced by homogenous residential blocks despite the efforts of historians, architects and academics.
The Saudi Pro League’s big spending on foreign players like Cristiano Ronaldo has drawn inevitable comparisons to the doomed Chinese Super League, but will it learn from China’s mistakes?
China’s Ministry of Education is taking the lead to ramp up the studies deemed essential to guard the country against perceived external threats.