Samsung partners with China's Alipay

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd has struck a partnership with Chinese payment service Alipay, to expand Samsung Pay in the world's largest smartphone market.

Regulator tightens rule on mutual fund risky investments

China's top securities regulator said on Friday it will tighten regulation on subsidiaries of the country's mutual funds, to curb the explosive growth in areas of risky investments that it says were "blindly expanded" and that analysts say exist in a regulatory void.

Internet fraud on the rise as payments by mobile boom

The number of people being deceived by fraud on the mobile internet is increasing as the market of mobile payments has boomed recently in China.

Uber lures clients with art

Be it car stations with artsy sculptures or an in-app lifestyle magazine, Uber Technologies Inc is going all the way out to woo Chinese customers over, amid the fierce ride hailing competition in the country.

Vanke to finance US apartment tower

Seattle is getting another infusion of Chinese capital.

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US military snooping is more than impolite

The Pentagon has once again pointed accusing fingers at China, this time for what it claims was an "unsafe" intercept of one of its spy planes by two Chinese fighters over the South China Sea on Tuesday. But as a Chinese proverb observes, the offender complains first.

Ray of hope in US-made mire

In a recent clarification to domestic and foreign media on its stance on the case submitted by the Philippines to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague on its territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea, China's Foreign Ministry emphasized that the court has no power of jurisdiction over what is fundamentally a sovereignty case and its ruling has no legal force.

Domestic violence goes beyond family as a legal and social issue

A MAN WAS seen continuously beating a 10-year-old boy in a street in Jiulongpo district, Chongqing, in southwestern China. When police officers arrived, they found the man was the boy's father who was angry because his son was slow in finishing his homework. The father promised he wouldn't discipline his son through such crude means in the future. Beijing Youth Daily commented on Thursday:

Cleaning school toilets may benefit students

STUDENTS AT A PRIMARY SCHOOL in Fuzhou, East China's Fujian province, were reportedly required to clean the school toilets to "help them nurture good habits". Cnr.cn commented on Thursday:

High food prices inside resort spur debate

AFTER SHANGHAI Disneyland Resort began its trial opening on May 7, some of the visitors complained online about the high food prices inside the theme park. China Daily's Zhang Zhouxiang summarizes the debate:

Brexit would entail huge economic costs for UK

Those campaigning for the United Kingdom to exit the European Union claim that doing so would make their country both freer and richer. They assert that after the so-called Brexit, the UK could quickly negotiate a bespoke agreement with the EU that offers all the benefits of free trade without the costs of EU membership; strike better trade deals with other countries; and reap huge benefits from scrapping burdensome EU regulations. This is a delusion.