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THE chairman of privately owned chemical business Dalian Shide Group has been detained over alleged involvement in economic crimes, it was reported yesterday. Xu Ming, who also sits on the board of the Bank of Dalian and was named the eighth richest person on China's mainland in 2005 by Forbes, was held by on March [...]

BOAO, Hainan, April 1 (Xinhua) — Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday met here with a delegation from Taiwan to this year's Boao Forum for Asia (BFA). The delegation is headed by Wu Den-yih, chief advisor of the Taiwan-based Cross-Straits Common Market Foundation.

BEIJING, March 31 (Xinhua) — China will establish a center for research of the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (1946-1948), an international military court established to try Japanese war criminals after the Second World War, it has been announced. The National Library of China and Shanghai Jiao Tong University on Saturday signed an agreement on setting [...]

Vice-Premier Li Keqiang on Saturday reaffirmed China's commitment to properly resolve the South China Sea issue with Vietnam, as he urged healthy and steady growth of bilateral ties. "The two countries should proceed from the overall and long-term interests and take effective measures to properly handle the South China Sea issue," he said. Read Full [...]