US' rebalancing will lose its market

US President Barack Obama has merely half a year to go before leaving office, and to consolidate his administration's strategy of rebalancing to the Asia-Pacific before leaving office, he is visiting Vietnam and will attend the G7 Summit in Japan.

Manila pretending to be blind to historical facts

The Philippines has initiated arbitration proceedings on the South China Sea through the United Nations Permanent Court of Arbitration. Its No.1 and No.2 arbitration requests are to let the court rule that China's historical rights in the "nine-dash line" area of the South China Sea are against the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, which was concluded in 1982, so as to deny the legality of China's interests.

Missed opportunity to seek solutions to common challenges

On Friday, Japan's Foreign Ministry released the agenda of the G7 summit meeting, which the island country will host this week.

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: