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Josephine Ma
Josephine Ma
Hong Kong
@scmp_joma
News editor, China
Josephine Ma is China news editor and has covered China news for the Post for more than 20 years. As a correspondent in Beijing, she reported on everything from the 2003 Sars outbreak to the riots in Lhasa and the Beijing Olympics in 2008. She has been based in Hong Kong since 2009. She has a master’s degree in development studies from the London School of Economics and a bachelor’s degree in English language from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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President Xi Jinping wants officials and media to make China’s voice heard over the Western narrative. Millions have been spent, but there is frustration that the campaign is doing little to sway international opinion.

Problems such as the property and stock market slumps, the sluggish recovery and lack of jobs for the young have put many middle-income households in a precarious position.

While some cite fall of Soviet Union and Lenin’s chequered legacy for China’s low-key response to Lenin’s death centenary, one analyst asserts that Leninism ‘is in the DNA’ of the party.

The country says it will be more selective about sharing judgments to online database while setting up new archives offering limited information to the public, prompting outcry from lawyers and scholars.

Jiang Ping was known as the ‘conscience’ of the profession and for his advocacy for the rule of law. He played a role in drafting key legislation including corporate, trust, contract and property laws.

State media is trying to paint a rosy picture of rural life to lure people to the countryside as the country’s economy struggles to get back on track.

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Three Philippine fisheries bureau vessels ‘intruded’ into waters near disputed shoal, China Coast Guard says, as Manila condemns obstruction of supply mission.

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Top prosecutor’s office says it has indicted 34,000 people in first 10 months of the year, with about half of them involved in overseas syndicates, and the number is expected to increase in coming months as suspects arrested in Myanmar are extradited.

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Beijing’s response to Covid-19 created a trust deficit it will struggle to overcome without releasing as much information as possible about the latest outbreak.

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WHO request follows reports about overcrowded fever clinics, hospital emergency rooms and children’s wards, with experts citing the circulation of multiple winter pathogens, including Sars-CoV-2.

Businesses cash in on holiday by promoting scary movies, costumes and other commodities as a quarter of humanity suffers in conflict zones, but celebrations could make statement against terror instead of encouraging people to become desensitised.

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