I'm sitting in a bar in Japan, enjoying a holiday whiskey, when I hear something that grabs my attention.
Item from Aug 18, 1988 in China Daily: Houses for sale ... Workers at the Ya Guang Electrical Engineering Factory in Chengdu, Sichuan province, look at notices on houses for sale ...
Many Chinese at home and abroad have been feeling the impact of the recent depreciation of the yuan.
Tianjin has committed to careful monitoring of air and soil pollution as it works to remove tons of sodium cyanide and water contaminated by cyanide at the site of last week's warehouse explosion, officials said on Monday.
The fatal blasts in Tianjin last week have taught real estate developers to monitor closely what is planned for areas surrounding their residential complexes, the president of China's largest real estate developer by sales value has said.
Seven hundred metric tons of sodium cyanide found on the site of deadly blasts in Tianjin has been confirmed to have been produced by a company in neighboring Hebei province.
The explosions at Tianjin Port may sink its ambition to become the world's third-busiest port by handling capacity this year, insiders said on Monday.
Premier Li Keqiang pledged on Sunday a thorough investigation into last week's fatal blasts in Tianjin and promised that those responsible would be punished.
Authorities said on Sunday that an estimated several hundred metric tons of sodium cyanide stored at the scene of Wednesday's killer explosions in Tianjin have not harmed human health or the environment.
A Chinese official and scholars issued an alert over right-wingers in Japan on Sunday following Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's offering of a ritual donation to a shrine endorsing convicted war criminals.