SCO members brace for terrorist threat

BEIJING – China, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan have held a joint counterterrorism drill along the border near Kashgar, in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, at a time when there are indications extreme separatists are re-entering…

Ministry issues list excluding new tech college

SHENZHEN, Guangdong – While many of China’s universities are advertising to attract attention from college candidates ahead of the annual college entrance examination in June, one university is noticeably absent from a list of colleges…

Ivy League lectures strike chord on mainland

Yale philosophy professor Shelly Kagan, who looks somewhat nerdy, has been affectionately called “Professor Desk” by his mainland fans ever since they saw him in a videotaped lecture sitting cross-legged on a lecture desk, talking…

Sino-US dialogue should shatter illusions

The United States has said that it will pressure China on the yuan exchange rate and the unfair playing field for US enterprises in China, ahead of the third round of the China-US Strategic Economic…

More Chinese buying luxury goods abroad

According to industry analysts, purchasers of luxury goods should receive one more lavish advantage, little tax. Analysts said the nation should adjust its marketplace for luxury goods to keep the overwhelming purchasing power of Chinese…

China ranks 2 as clean tech producer, US is No 17

AMSTERDAM – Denmark earns the biggest share of its national revenue from producing windmills and other clean technologies, the United States is rapidly expanding its clean-tech sector, but no country can match China’s pace of growth,…

Beijing steps up efforts to build subsidised flats

Beijing is showing increasing political willingness to interfere with the housing market, with the latest circular from the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission urging corporations under central government control to play an active part…