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China orders financial support for battered property sector

The Chinese government has urged banks and financial institutions to back a sputtering real estate sector where the biggest developers…

1 year ago

Taiwan: the ‘most sensitive’ issue, linchpin to US-China relations

The leaders of the world’s two biggest economies emerged from a high-profile summit with a conciliatory and consensual commitment to…

1 year ago

APEC 2023: Xi heads for US in closely-watched summit with Biden

Even as the world watches keenly as China’s President Xi Jinping meets his American counterpart Joe Biden on Wednesday, expectations…

1 year ago

China dominates in overseas ports: report

China has built a global network of commercial ports overseas that helps Beijing wield economic power as well as expand…

1 year ago

Australia and China: Besties again? It’s complicated

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wrapped up a three-day trip to China Tuesday, calling for the “full resumption of free…

1 year ago

Uyghur artist wins prize at prestigious art exhibit in Italy

Lékim Ibragimov was well into his career as an artist when he visited the Kizil Thousand-Buddha Caves in Xinjiang in…

1 year ago

Myanmar junta shutters independent news outlet in Rakhine state

Myanmar junta troops raided and shuttered an independent news outlet in Rakhine state on Sunday, arresting one reporter and a…

1 year ago

Migration throws Laos’ communist government a lifeline

In a rare moment in the international spotlight, Laos was the topic of two articles published by major world media…

1 year ago

Ailing rights lawyer Li Yuhan jailed for 6 ½ years

Chinese authorities have given a six-and-a-half year prison term to human rights lawyer Li Yuhan for "fraud" and "picking quarrels…

1 year ago

Junta sentences 7 men to death in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady region

Myanmar’s military regime sentenced seven men in Ayeyarwady region to death, Pyapon township residents told Radio Free Asia over the…

1 year ago

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