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  • Sunday, 6 October, 2024
    Chinese politics & policy
    China demands schoolteachers hand in their passports

    Authorities make travelling abroad difficult for growing number of public sector employees

    Close-up of a Chinese passport
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    OutlookKai Waluszewski
    ‘Too boring’: Chinese students are sleeping through propaganda

    Hours of political education are supposed to reinforce loyalty but young people struggle to stay awake

    College students wave national flags as they watch the opening of the Communist Party Congress
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    Fatal stabbing of 10-year-old rattles Japanese community in China

    Spate of attacks reignites concern among expatriates and companies about anti-Japanese sentiment

    A woman places a bouquet of flowers on the ground outside the Shenzhen Japanese School. Several people, including photographers, stand nearby. The school gate and part of a playground are visible in the background.
  • Sunday, 15 September, 2024
    News in-depth
    More Chinese women graduate but jobs and equal pay still elude them

    Women under-represented in Stem subjects at university and afterwards are quizzed about plans to start a family

    Graduates at Wuhan university
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    China to raise retirement age for first time since 1978

    Beijing battles demographic crisis and pressure on pension system by keeping population in workforce for longer

    Two elderly men play Chinese chess at a park in Beijing
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    Markets InsightDiana Choyleva
    China’s squeeze on the aspiring classes will have an economic cost

    Beijing needs to adopt more ambitious measures to improve consumption

    A large crowd of people walks down Nanjing East Road in Shanghai, China. The street is decorated with numerous Chinese national flags, and the area is surrounded by trees and various shops.
  • Monday, 12 August, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    China’s milk producers target adults as population ages

    Intense competition forces companies to seek out new areas of growth in one of world’s biggest dairy markets

    An elderly man shops for milk formula in a supermarket in China
  • Thursday, 8 August, 2024
    LexPersonal & Household Goods
    Product patriotism isn’t pretty for Asia’s beauty groups Premium content

    Improving quality means Chinese consumers aren’t choosing domestic cosmetic brands for their affordability alone

    A customer tries out a beauty product made by an Amorepacific brand at a shopping centre in Singapore
  • Monday, 5 August, 2024
    Malaysia
    Chinese emigration to Malaysia doubles on student and investment surge

    Middle-class families seek more affordable destination amid slowing economy at home

    Ethnic Chinese Malaysians visit a temple on the first day of lunar new year celebrations in Petaling Jaya, outside Kuala Lumpur
  • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    China’s urban pets forecast to outnumber toddlers this year

    Growing number of household animals amid declining human population forecast to build $12bn pet food market by 2030

    A Chinese pet shop owner poses with two greyhounds
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Chinese politics & policy
    China’s data watchdog plans tighter control of internet users

    Proposed digital IDs potentially covering everything from ecommerce to travel itineraries spark backlash

    A woman walks past a large video screen showing Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in 2022
  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    Gardens
    The secret Hong Kong garden that’s a portal to the past

    Chan Siun-kuen left rural China in the slipstream of the revolution for a rapidly urbanising Hong Kong. His herb garden restores a connection to forgotten traditions and the healing power of plants

    An entrance to a planting site at Lung Fu Shan Country Park, marked by a weathered wooden sign. The site is lush with various plants and trees, with a dirt path leading into the greenery
  • Thursday, 25 July, 2024
    News in-depth
    Younger Chinese fume at call to raise retirement age

    Communist party meeting sparks online row as experts warn ageing population makes change ‘inevitable’

    Two women, one young and the other much older, exit a crowded Beijing subway train
  • Monday, 15 July, 2024
    The Big Read
    Can Xi keep a lid on China’s mounting social strains?

    The authorities are increasingly concerned about rises in unemployment, mental illness and crime linked to the economic slowdown

    Police officer in Tiananmen square, left, protest against zero Covid measures in Beijing , right
  • Sunday, 7 July, 2024
    News in-depth
    China stabbing attacks raise concerns of growing social tensions

    Economic doldrums, unemployment and isolation could be playing into crime wave, analysts say

    Flowers at the site of a knife attack in Suzhou near Shanghai, China
  • Friday, 5 July, 2024
    Chinese politics & policy
    New podcast series: China’s race to tech supremacy

    Is China destined to overtake the US as the world’s technology superpower?

  • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
    News in-depthUS-China relations
    China exerts new control over its young expats in the US

    Students and workers who joined the Communist party say they have been asked to spread propaganda

    Passport of People’s Republic of China on United States flag
  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    ReviewBiography and memoir
    At the Edge of Empire by Edward Wong — from patriotic idealism to disillusionment

    A family history that exposes China’s authoritarian regime and an era of repression

  • Saturday, 29 June, 2024
    Hong Kong economy
    Hong Kong’s exclusive clubs rocked by economic slowdown and expat exodus

    Prices on secondary market for lifetime memberships continue to slide post-pandemic as city’s troubles squeeze demand

    Yachts parked at the Aberdeen marina in Hong Kong
  • Monday, 24 June, 2024
    Work & Careers
    ‘We’re like gears grinding until they break’: Chinese tech companies push staff to the limit

    As growth slows, employers are squeezing more hours out of fewer workers

    Chinese workers asleep at their desk in a Beijing office
  • Friday, 21 June, 2024
    James Kynge
    China’s super-rich are eyeing the exit

    But capital controls mean getting money out of the country is no easy task

    A kite-flyer in the Pudong district of Shanghai
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    US-China relations
    Four teachers from US college stabbed in China

    Authorities say attack in public park in north-eastern city is believed to be isolated incident

    A bridge over the Songhua river in China’s north-eastern city of Jilin
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    News in-depth
    China’s online ‘Kim Kardashian’ banned for being too ostentatious

    Beijing cracks down on social media influencers known for extravagant outfits and displays of wealth

    Chinese influencer Wang Hongquan, aka Wang Hongquanxing, stands second from right with other guests at a BMW event in Cannes this month
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    Artificial intelligence
    China’s latest answer to OpenAI is ‘Chat Xi PT’

    Internet regulator uses Chinese leader’s political philosophy to help answer questions posed to latest large language model

    Xi Jinping.
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    Chinese politics & policy
    China accused of ‘transnational repression’ of students

    Amnesty International report says Chinese authorities harassing citizens studying in Europe and US

    People at the University of Pennsylvania campus
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