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Wang Lei, CEO of Huatai Financial. Photo: Handout

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Chinese banks outpace rivals in Hong Kong wealth growth, Huatai HK CEO says

Booming listings and rising outbound investment demand are accelerating growth for Chinese players, SFC data shows.

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China’s market regulator appears in public after resignation report

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Hong Kong schools’ fair to woo mainland Chinese but ‘no priority’ in admissions

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Another child in China gets his head stuck in the hole of a massage bed

14 Mar 2016 - 3:16PM

The latest victim of a massage bed child trap in the mainland. Photo: Hangzhou Metropolis Express

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Around the nation: Chinese man smuggles heroin in his foreskin; divorce on menu after wedding feast dispute

A 12-year-old girl in Jiangyou killed herself by drinking pesticide after giving her grandmother water laced with the poison. Railway police revealed they captured a man who hid a bag of heroin under his foreskin.

21 Aug 2015 - 4:50PM

China Insider

Around the nation: Chinese 'naked' wedding celebrations focus on love - not money

Couples covered in body paint and dressed only in underwear celebrate 'naked weddings' in Zhejiang province to protest against modern China's values, which focus more on money than love

21 Aug 2015 - 5:16PM

China Digest

China's longest-living couple look back on 90 years of marital bliss

Two Chinese lovebirds who have been married for 90 years - and who are still in love at the ripe age of over 100 - are proving that love can indeed last a lifetime.

18 Feb 2015 - 3:43PM

The couple have been married for more 90 years, longer than the life expectancy in China. Photo: Weibo

China Digest

Around the nation: Pupils kowtow en masse at Shanghai school

27 Aug 2015 - 4:36PM

China Digest

Around the nation: Official says sleazy nightclub photos a set-up

27 Aug 2015 - 2:29PM

China Insider

Around the nation: Video of laughing police at crime scene goes viral

27 Aug 2015 - 2:28PM

Police in the capital have recovered stolen historical artifacts in Beijing. Photo: Weibo screenshot

China Digest

Waste collector, 85, donates 1m yuan to needy; Shanghai officials pounce on bouncy castles; Man buys minivan with loose change

Beijing municipality will invest 500 million yuan (HK$632 million) yearly between 2014 and 2020 to support the economic development of 16 cities and counties in Hubei and Henan in compensation for their contributions to the south-to-north water diversion project, Xinhua reports.

27 Oct 2014 - 5:43AM

Danjiangkou Reservoir is the starting point of the South-North Water Diversion Project.

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New | Hong Kong man arrested in US for trying to smuggle space technology to China

18 Feb 2014 - 11:30AM

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China's high-speed trains will soon receive wi-fi

29 Jan 2014 - 5:43PM

A high-speed train in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. Photo: Xinhua

China Digest

Chinese banks outpace rivals in Hong Kong wealth growth, Huatai HK CEO says

Booming listings and rising outbound investment demand are accelerating growth for Chinese players, SFC data shows.

China’s market regulator appears in public after resignation report

Hong Kong schools’ fair to woo mainland Chinese but ‘no priority’ in admissions

Another child in China gets his head stuck in the hole of a massage bed

Around the nation: Chinese man smuggles heroin in his foreskin; divorce on menu after wedding feast dispute

A 12-year-old girl in Jiangyou killed herself by drinking pesticide after giving her grandmother water laced with the poison. Railway police revealed they captured a man who hid a bag of heroin under his foreskin.

Around the nation: Chinese 'naked' wedding celebrations focus on love - not money

Couples covered in body paint and dressed only in underwear celebrate 'naked weddings' in Zhejiang province to protest against modern China's values, which focus more on money than love

China's longest-living couple look back on 90 years of marital bliss

Two Chinese lovebirds who have been married for 90 years - and who are still in love at the ripe age of over 100 - are proving that love can indeed last a lifetime.

Around the nation: Pupils kowtow en masse at Shanghai school

Around the nation: Official says sleazy nightclub photos a set-up

Around the nation: Video of laughing police at crime scene goes viral

Waste collector, 85, donates 1m yuan to needy; Shanghai officials pounce on bouncy castles; Man buys minivan with loose change

Beijing municipality will invest 500 million yuan (HK$632 million) yearly between 2014 and 2020 to support the economic development of 16 cities and counties in Hubei and Henan in compensation for their contributions to the south-to-north water diversion project, Xinhua reports.

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China's high-speed trains will soon receive wi-fi

New | Hong Kong man arrested in US for trying to smuggle space technology to China