South China Morning Post
From their website:
First published in 1903, South China Morning Post is Hong Kong’s premier English language newspaper and has the city’s most affluent and influential readership. With a reputation for authoritative, influential and independent reporting on Hong Kong and China. The newspaper is supported with its online publicationscmp.com and its Sunday edition, Sunday Morning Post.
《南華早報》是全港首屈一指的英文報章，讀者主要來自本港最具影響力的階層。自1903年創立以來，《南華早報》一直以具權威性、富影響力和客觀獨立的報道著稱，在香港及中國內地享有卓越聲譽，過去一年更榮獲58項優秀新聞獎。讀者還可閱覽網絡版scmp.com和週日版《星期日南華早報》，接收更多資訊 。
Last Updated: July 7, 2016
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The government has announced that the Chinese-language proficiency requirements will be lowered for 22 civil service grades, bringing the total thus adjusted since the year 2010 to 53.
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Research group highlights Beijing’s growing share of global arms trade as it tries to strengthen ties with key allies.
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Beijing is unhappy with the visit of a US aircraft carrier to a Vietnamese port, the first by such a vessel since the Vietnam war, and is monitoring developments, according to a state newspaper report on Wednesday.
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Chinese internet users have been arguing about whether red envelopes – filled with cash and given as gifts during the Lunar New Year – should go to children or their parents, after a court published rulings on several cases.
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02.15.18China’s All-Seeing Social Control Network Brings an End to Fugitives’ Festive Fun
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With most of China getting into the swing of the Lunar New Year holiday, two crime suspects in the southern city of Guangzhou could have been forgiven for thinking the local police force was taking a break too.
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02.06.18The Upside for China in the US Stock Market Plunge – from the Chinese Economist Who Tipped a Big Fall
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A record points plunge in the US stock market this week could be good news for China’s exporters, according to a Chinese government economist who predicted a big correction in American shares four weeks ago.
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Offshore platforms targeted after recent efforts to shut down domestic exchanges failed to eradicate trading.
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01.30.18China’s Retired Anti-Graft Tsar Wang Qishan Holds on to Top Legislature Spot to Stay in the Political Game
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Wang is set to take on the vice-presidency but his power will depend on what Xi Jinping needs him to do, analyst says.
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American business group says Beijing could target sectors to send a political message across the Pacific.
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China’s banking regulator has slapped a 462 million yuan (US$72 million) fine on a bank branch over a massive shell company fraud, as Beijing continues to crack down on financial risks.
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Wei Shiji “died instantly” while trying to defuse a landmine in a dense forest in China’s Fujian province this month, while two comrades, Li Shoushun and Liu Shangdong, “survived the war”.
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The call comes as Washington ramps up talk of taking tough action against Beijing, including punitive tariffs, sanctions and even a trade war.
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The outrage in China over US hotel giant Marriott’s gaffe in which it listed Tibet, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan as independent countries, has spread to a clutch of other well-known international brands as angry internet users sought to “expose”...
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