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WHO urges China to tackle state tobacco monopoly in battle on smoking

August 25, 2021 at 1:19 a.m.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China must separate the conflicting promotion and prevention roles of its state tobacco monopoly to reduce smoking-related deaths, which number as much as 1 million a year,...

WHO urges China to tackle state tobacco monopoly in battle on smoking

May 14, 2019 at 1:14 a.m.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China must separate the conflicting promotion and prevention roles of its state tobacco monopoly to reduce smoking-related deaths, which number as much as 1 million a year,...

China taps tech training to tackle labor market mismatch

August 25, 2021 at 12:36 a.m.

By Li Hui and Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China is waking up to a potentially damaging mismatch in its labor market. A record 7.27 million graduates - equivalent to...

China to probe tech suppliers for security checks amid row with U.S.

November 3, 2021 at 8:46 p.m.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will investigate providers of important IT products and services to protect "national security" and "economic and social development", the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday,...

China to probe tech suppliers for security checks amid row with U.S.

December 23, 2018 at 5:51 p.m.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China will investigate providers of important IT products and services to protect "national security" and "economic and social development", the official Xinhua news agency said on Thursday,...

Japan’s Mitsui pays China to release seized ship-court

August 24, 2021 at 11:09 p.m.

BEIJING/TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd paid about $29 million for the release of a ship seized by China over a dispute that dates back to the 1930s...

Chinese parents, trapped in one-child web, give babies away on Internet

May 14, 2019 at 12:49 a.m.

GANZHOU, China (Reuters) - Lu Libing knew he had only one choice as the birth of his third child approached. He couldn't afford hefty fines that would be meted out...

With legal reforms, China wants less interfering in cases, fewer death penalty crimes

December 23, 2018 at 4:38 p.m.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has curtailed the power of the ruling Communist Party's Political and Legal Committee, a secretive body overseeing the security services, to interfere in most legal cases,...

Chinese criticize state firm behind Three Gorges dam over graft probe

December 23, 2018 at 4:15 p.m.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A scathing report on corruption at the company that built China's $59-billion Three Gorges dam, the world's biggest hydropower scheme, has reignited public anger over a project...

Chinese wonder why their tourists behave so badly

May 13, 2019 at 11:47 p.m.

From faking marriage certificates to get honeymoon discounts in the Maldives to letting children defecate on the floor of a Taiwan airport, Chinese tourists have recently found themselves at the...

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