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How many Hongkongers are really living in poverty?

As Hongkongers get fired up and ready to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the city’s return to China in just over a month, the government seems equally psyched up and has taken every opportunity to brag about its achievements over the past two decades.

SCMP | 2017-05-22 11:27

Operation Fight Club: Medical staff in punch-up as patient undergoes surgery

A fight broke out in an operating theatre in central China while surgery was underway, due to suspected relationship problems between two medical staff, mainland media reported. Leaked surveillance footage shows a man and woman - dressed in medical scrubs and surgical caps - coming to blows at Lankao Central Hospital in Henan province last Friday, according to the Legal Eveni...

SCMP | 2017-05-22 11:12

Xi Jinping primes China to be leader of the free-trade pack

China looks poised to take on a leadership role in the global economy, with President Xi Jinping making a vigorous defence of free trade and globalisation in Beijing on Sunday. The new Silk Road extravaganza promoting Xi’s ambitious global trade and infrastructure programme, promoted by state media as China’s coming-of-age on the world stage, offered Xi a chance to outline ...

SCMP | 2017-05-15 12:24

China's missile tests in Bohai 'aimed at THAAD'

Chinese rocket forces tested a new type of missile aimed at the country’s waters west of the Korean peninsula, the defence ministry announced in a rare public statement. The statement did not say what missile was tested or when the launch took place but the announcement was likely aimed at South Korea and the United States, observers said.

SCMP | 2017-05-11 10:46

N. Korea expected to ask China for a break at summit

North Korea is expected to press China to tone down its economic sanctions when its delegation attends an infrastructure and trade summit in Beijing on Sunday, observers said. Talks between North Korean and Chinese officials on the sidelines of the “Belt and Road Initiative” forum would mainly focus on economic matters, but Beijing was likely to call on Pyongyang to stop ...

SCMP | 2017-05-11 10:33

Will N. Korea crisis finally bring China and US together?

The rising crisis over North Korea’s nuclear ambitions has forced China and the United States to work together - at least for now - but tensions remain high in the Korean Peninsula. Regional observers say the two powers have come together in an effort to deal with North Korea. “Both nations have been continuing to coordinate on the North Korea issues after the Trump-Xi summit...

SCMP | 2017-05-02 10:28

China urges citizens in N. Korea to return home

Trump willing to meet N. Korean leader 'under the right circumstances'

US President Donald Trump said he would meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un “under the right circumstances” and defended his decision to invite Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte as part of a military strategy. Trump made the comments in an interview with Bloomberg News, which didn’t define conditions Pyongyang would need to meet in order to pave the way for a meetin...

SCMP | 2017-05-02 10:20

N. Korea vows to bolster nuke program 'at maximum pace'

China 'might agree' to UN oil embargo of N. Korea

Beijing would consider an oil embargo against Pyongyang in the case of further nuclear tests by its reclusive neighbour, according to diplomatic analysts. A suspension of oil supplies from Beijing could deal a much harder blow to Pyongyang than any of the existing sanctions, possibly paralysing the government of Kim Jong-un. But analysts said China was unlikely to impose furt...

SCMP | 2017-05-02 10:09

'Don't test our patience': North Korea implies 'damaged' alliance with Beijing

Oops! Chinese defence ministry's PLA poster a big Photoshop fail

It was supposed to be a visual celebration but an official poster to mark the 68th anniversary of the Chinese navy has instead been a massive Photoshop fail for the Ministry of National Defence. The poster of the Liaoning, the country’s first aircraft carrier, was produced by the ministry and shared on its official microblog on Sunday.

SCMP | 2017-04-27 10:23

How do China's aircraft carriers stack up against other nations?

China is about to launch its first homebuilt aircraft carrier, once the tidal conditions are right at the dock where the vessel has been under construction in Dalian. Weighing 70,000 tonnes and 315 metres long and 75 metres wide, the still unnamed carrier is slightly larger than the Liaoning, China’s only other aircraft carrier, which was made in Ukraine.

SCMP | 2017-04-26 10:40

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