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Fugitive Chinese billionaire's firms to pay $539mn fines
Sep 13, 2021 (AFP)
GTV Media Group, Saraca Media Group and Voice of Guo Media Inc last year raised funds through the sale of digital assets called G-Coins and G-Dollars, as well a...
Hong Kong police raid shuttered Tiananmen museum
Sep 09, 2021 (AFP)
Officers from the city's newly set-up national security police went into the now-shuttered June 4 museum Thursday morning for a search and cordoned off the buil...
China orders gaming giants to cut 'effeminate' gender imagery
Sep 09, 2021 (AFP)
The move is the latest by authorities to tighten their grip on the embattled technology sector and sparked a collapse in the share prices of some of the industr...
China's state media tries to reassure investors over crackdown
Sep 08, 2021 (AFP)
Sweeping regulatory changes over the past months have targeted everything from monopolistic behaviour to data security, rattling share prices and wiping billion...
Evergrande: China's fragile housing giant
Sep 03, 2021 (AFP)
Crippled with debt, the firm's Hong Kong-listed shares have collapsed this year on mounting fears for its financial health. Any possible bankruptcy of the group...
China's mentally ill yearn to step from the shadows
Sep 02, 2021 (AFP)
Despite mounting stress in a fast-modernising China, mental illness is rarely spoken about publicly, forcing millions to cope alone. "They think we're crazy, th...
China bans reality talent shows in showbiz crackdown
Sep 02, 2021 (AFP)
Talent shows that put hundreds of aspiring young performers through rigorous boot camps and subject them to public votes have become massively popular in China,...
China's kids get schooled in 'Xi Jinping thought'
Sep 01, 2021 (AFP)
The education ministry has said it will incorporate Xi's vaguely defined political ideology into the national curriculum, from primary schools to graduate progr...
Hong Kong University labour researcher detained in China: friends
Sep 01, 2021 (AFP)
Beijing has repeatedly cracked down on grassroots protests and labour NGOs in recent years, with authorities seeking to control social movements they view as a ...
China bans exams for six-year-olds as Beijing retools education system
Aug 30, 2021 (AFP)
China's exam-oriented system previously required students to take exams from first grade onwards, culminating in the feared university entrance exam at age 18 k...
Actress hit with $46 mn tax fine as China targets celebrity culture
Aug 27, 2021 (AFP)
Beijing is on a mission to rein in what it calls "chaotic fan culture" and celebrity excess, after a spate of scandals in recent months that have taken down Chi...
Hong Kongers plead guilty to 'national security' charge over sanction calls
Aug 19, 2021 (AFP)
China imposed the sweeping security law on Hong Kong last year to wipe out dissent after the financial hub was rocked by huge and often violent democracy protes...
Mirror: The boy band bringing joy and local pride to Hong Kong
Aug 18, 2021 (AFP)
Instead the crowd has gathered for the latest boy band frenzy sweeping the troubled city, where many are desperate for both a happy escape and a source of local...
China eyes its rich in drive to reduce inequality
Aug 18, 2021 (AFP)
The policy goal, announced in the readout from an economic planning meeting attended on Tuesday by President Xi Jinping, comes amid a sweeping push by Beijing t...
China's youth react to gaming curbs with anguish and cunning
Aug 15, 2021 (AFP)
An edict by gaming giant Tencent means players under 12 can no longer make in-game purchases in multiplayer battle smash-hit "Honor of Kings", while under-18s a...
Friends call for China to release Australian journalist
Aug 13, 2021 (AFP)
Cheng -- once a familiar face on state-run CGTN's English-language channel -- disappeared from the airwaves in August 2020 without a trace. For seven months, he...
China signals more crackdowns in pipeline for businesses
Aug 12, 2021 (AFP)
A regulatory crackdown on sectors ranging from tech to education has roiled markets in recent months. Guidelines published late Wednesday by the Communist Party...
Hong Kong saw net outflow of 90,000 residents over the last year
Aug 12, 2021 (AFP)
The population decrease continues the largest decline since the city began keeping comparable records in 1961 and comes during a period of intense political tur...
China's anti-sanctions law a new headache for banks in Hong Kong
Aug 12, 2021 (AFP)
As a finance hub with an internationally respected legal system, Hong Kong has long marketed itself as a reliable business gateway to authoritarian China. But s...
Canadian jailed for 11 years in China for spying, Ottawa vows appeal
Aug 11, 2021 (AFP)
Spavor was detained in 2018 along with compatriot Michael Kovrig on what Ottawa has said are politically orchestrated charges after Huawei executive Meng Wanzho...
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