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Shanghai Enacts Curbs on Business Dealings of Officials’ Relatives

Responding to calls by President Xi Jinping to rein in corruption in China, Shanghai has enacted strict rules to keep the spouses and children of top local officials from entering private business and profiting from their government connections. Read more

India will overtake China in population growth by 2028, says Health Minister

The government on Tuesday said that the birth rate in India is greater than that of China and said the country's population will cross China's by 2028. "Yes. As per World Population Prospects - the 2012 revision, the population of India will cross the population of China by 2028," Health Minister JP Nadda told Rajya Sabha. Read more

The most incredible Chinese cities you've never heard of

Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong are China’s glamour triplets. Everybody knows them, everybody wants to see them (and hopefully snap a selfie). And yeah, they’re pretty fantastic. But did you know that China is home to an incredible 600+ cities, more than 160 of which have populations greater than a million? Read more

More than $1 trillion in secret cash sneaked out of China in the last 10 years

China’s capital account might be closed—but it’s not that closed. Read more

China Promises $46 Billion To Pave The Way For A Brand New Silk Road

China wants to build a new network of roads, railways pipelines and shipping lanes connecting China to South Asia, Southeast Asia, Central Asia, Africa and Europe. With this in mind, China's President Xi Jinping visited Pakistan last month, promising $46 billion in infrastructure investment. Read more

Report: 'Legal Firewall' Shields Chinese Firms From Lawsuits

For now, anyone suing a Chinese company can find it "almost impossible" to deliver court papers to the defendants in the United States, according to the report. That forces plaintiffs into a cumbersome international process for delivering legal documents and pursuing evidence in China. The paperwork must be translated into Chinese, then presented to China's government, which often rejects the

China's President, Taiwan's Ruling Party: Their New Agenda

Eric Chu, the chairman of Taiwan’s ruling Nationalist party met Chinese President Xi Jinping for an hour in Beijing. Read more

The Fugitive Lives of Corrupt Chinese Officials

Wanted in China for graft, bribery, and other violation of the law or “Communist Party discipline,” many corrupt officials have fled their homeland for a safer life abroad. Of those identified by Chinese anti-corruption authorities as being among the top 100 fugitives, 66 are suspected to be living in the United States or Canada. Read more

Cancer hotels home to China's healthcare misery

The sick sell their homes to come here. A shabby row of two-story buildings in west Beijing, a few hundred meters from one of China's top cancer treatment and research hospitals, they house untold misery. Read more

The women of the Chinese internet remain defiant

Despite widespread censorship of social media, until recently feminist discussion seemed mostly permitted online in the communist country whose founder Chairman Mao once said that "women hold up half the sky". But last month, on International Women's Day, the women behind these online protests were arrested, beginning an ordeal of detention and interrogation that led one of them, Wu Rongrong,