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South Korea Proposes 513% Tariff On Foreign Rice
After announcing it would scrap rice import caps from next year, the South Korean government proposed on Thursday an initial 513-percent tariff to soften the impact on a crucial domestic market.For the...
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Chinese Official Commits Suicide After Being Sacked In Graft Probe
BEIJING (Reuters) - An official in eastern China hanged himself on Thursday after being sacked following a corruption probe into his presence at an extravagant banquet, state media said on Thursday,...
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China Has Slowly And Quietly Been Seizing Disputed Territory Along Its Border...
Chinese and Indian troops had a standoff this week inside a disputed border area in the Himalayas, Niharika Mandhana reports for The Wall Street Journal. The confrontation, which took place in...
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People In Asia Are Buying As Many iPhone 6s As They Can To Sell At Inflated...
SINGAPORE/TOKYO (Reuters) - Lured by the promise of profit from smuggling the new iPhones into China, opportunists joined the thousands of Apple Inc fans lining up to buy the devices as they were...
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China Troops Withdraw From India Border
New Delhi (AFP) - Chinese troops have begun pulling back from the disputed border with India, sources said Friday, as President Xi Jinping wrapped up a rare summit in New Delhi overshadowed by the...
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China's Special Forces In Hong Kong Go Through A Ridiculous Training Regimen
China's Special Forces go through intense training to ensure that the top soldiers of a country that views itself as the world's rising superpower can be as versitile as possible. China's People's...
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A Chinese Telecom Firm With Ties To The Government Shipped American-Made...
A Chinese telecommunications company linked to the People’s Liberation Army provided US-origin equipment to Cuba in apparent violation of American economic sanctions on the communist-ruled island.US...
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It's Not 2008 For Chinese Companies — It's Worse
If you think we saw bad things out of China this week, brace yourselves. It's going to get worse.A recent slew of economic data out of the country showed that industrial production had slowed to its...
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Indian News Anchor Fired After Mistaking Chinese President's Name For Roman...
Pronouncing foreign leaders' names is a headache for newsreaders the world over but on Friday it proved the downfall of one Indian newscaster, who mistook the visiting Chinese president's name for the...
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XI WHO MUST BE OBEYED: The Rise Of The Most Powerful Chinese Leader In Decades
The madness unleashed by the rule of a charismatic despot, Mao Zedong, left China so traumatized that the late chairman's successors vowed never to let a single person hold such sway again. Deng...
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Here's How To Mathematically Beat Anyone At Rock-Paper-Scissors
The question of how to win at Rock-Paper-Scissors has, believe it or not, plagued mathematicians and game theorists for quite some time. While they previously had devised a theoretical answer to the...
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China Is Trying To Build A New World Order
The clue is in the name. The Shanghai Co-operation Organisation (SCO) groups six countries--China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan--and aims to be the dominant security...
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Here's What Makes China's Pollution So Bad
Dust, soot and filth from farms, industry, traffic and power plants took most of the blame for China’s air-pollution episode in the beginning of 2013, when astronomic levels of particulate pollution...
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China's Scotch Indicator Is Signaling Disaster
The Scotch Whisky Association published its global figures for the first half of this year, and consumption is way down in China.Exports to Singapore and China dropped 46%, according to the...
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A Nervous China Is 'Interested' In A Possible Role In The Fight Against ISIS
BEIJING, China — The Islamic State is flush with cash, territorially ambitious and eager for recognition.But is IS a threat to China?That’s been a question on foreign policy minds since US National...
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CHINESE MANUFACTURING SLIGHTLY RISES
A little bit of surprise good news in China.Chinese manufacturing may have grown a little bit in September, according to the Markit flash PMI report.The index came in at 50.5, up from 50.2 in August....
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People Are Getting Into Fights Outside Apple Stores Because No One In China...
Fights have broken out all over the world in the last couple of days in front of Apple Stores as people queued for the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.In part, the fights appear to be happening because...
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China Accused Of Selling Electric Shock Guns, Spiked Batons, And Other 'Tools...
The number of Chinese companies exporting "tools of torture" has surged over the past decade, Amnesty International said Tuesday, with many devices falling into the hands of rights violators...
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Iron Ore Has Been Melting Down
The price of iron ore fell below $80 per ton for the first time since September 2009.The most obvious reason behind the price decline is China, where growth is slowing, which means less industrial...
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The iPhone 6 Could Soon Be Launching In China (AAPL)
BEIJING (Reuters) - Apple Inc's iPhone 6 is in the final stages of review for approval, with results due shortly, a top Chinese government regulator said in an interview published on Tuesday by...
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