China's central bank launched a set of tightened mortgage rules on Friday, the government's latest effort to curb speculative home-buying in Beijing and cool down the red-hot real estate market.
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Japan's major opposition parties agreed on Friday to seek the summoning of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's wife, Akie, and Osaka Governor Ichiro Matsui to give sworn testimony in parliament.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said Friday that he is looking forward to his second trip to China this May to attend the "One Belt, One Road" summit organized by the Chinese government.
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The Chinese economy is healthy and its structural reform is heading in the right direction, said Asian Development Bank (ADB) Vice President Stephen Groff on Friday at an Asian economic cooperation fo ...
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang (L) delivers a speech at the China-Australia Cooperation on Economy and Trade Forum in Sydney, Australia, March 24, 2017. Li attended the forum together with Australian Prim ...
The Media Leaders Roundtable is held at the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference in Boao, south China's Hainan Province, March 23, 2017. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
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Beijing said on Thursday it has reasons to stay "highly alert" to Tokyo's military moves and the real intentions behind them, one day after a large Japanese escort vessel was commissioned.
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Canada's joining the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank makes it the first country in the Americas to join the organization, the AIIB announced on Thursday.
AIIB's Board of Governors adopted resolu ...
A man uses his smartphone to scan an Alipay two-dimensional code for payments at the first unmanned supermarket in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. (Photo/Asianewsphoto)
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China's Yu Dabao (L) celebrates his goal with Wang Yongpo during the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia qualification match against South Korea in Changsha, central China's Hunan province, March 23, 2017. (Xi ...
Gender discrimination against women has deepened after China changed its policy to allow women to have a second child. Experts are calling for practical laws to protect women's rights in workplaces.
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U.S. space agency NASA said Wednesday it's moving ahead with a long-term demonstration of laser communications that eventually "could become the high-speed internet of the sky."
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The chip wholly developed by Xiaomi's subsidiary Pine Cone Electronics is displayed in Beijing, on Feb 28, 2017. (Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn)
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Beijing has again urged restraint and suggested that nations involved to give serious consideration to its proposal of "dual suspensions" after the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's seemingly fa ...
City governments across China have thrown everything but the kitchen sink at their real estate sector in an attempt to dampen demand and prevent a bubble from developing in the property market.
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