From COMPANIES 3:09pm

Auditors named in Caterpillar-ERA debacle

Involvement of Deloitte and E&Y shows firms’ challenge in China

Notebook from COMMENT Jan 22, 2013

Smoking out the tree-hugging set

There is a nascent sense that some Chinese are getting fed up with the consumer society, writes Patti Waldmeir

Jan 22, 2013

Manila takes territorial dispute to court

Halt to Beijing’s activities in South China Sea sought

Global Insight Jan 22, 2013

Return of warlike rhetoric from China

Officials, commentators spout less about peaceful moves, more on military might

A man speaks on a phones as he looks at a sign for the latest 'Mark Six' jackpot outside a betting office in Hong Kong ©Getty Jan 22, 2013

China’s lottery boom sparks social fears

Gambling is illegal but sales of the state-run lottery are worth $40bn

From COMPANIES Jan 21, 2013

Huawei in pledge to disclose more information

Effort to dispel fears over suspected ties to China military

From COMMENT Jan 21, 2013

The weibo generation can reboot China

Social media are a battlefield for expression, say Jonas Parello-Plesner and Michael Anti

From LEX Jan 21, 2013

China earnings: tempered expectations

Rising inflation set to join laundry list of risks

Jan 21, 2013

Japan and China struggle to curb tensions

New leaders will not want to show weakness over disputed islands

A photo released 20 January 2013 shows a worker standing at the trench for the Myanmar-China pipeline project near Naung Cho, Northern Shan State, Myanmar, on 24 September 2012. Construction on the 800-kilometre natural gas pipeline began in 2009 in the western state of Rakhine, and is scheduled to wind up later this year in Yunnan, China. Complaints of lack of proper environmental impact studies and inadequate compensation have dogged the venture, signed in 2009 when Myanmar was still under military rule ©EPA Jan 21, 2013

China-Myanmar pipeline to open in May

Gas pipeline to help reduce Chinese dependence on Malacca Strait

From LEX Jan 20, 2013

China M&A: a slowly breaking wave

Consolidation is winnowing overcrowded sectors

Jan 20, 2013

Beijing tries to clean up its act

Authorities respond to public pressure over air quality

From GLOBAL ECONOMY Jan 18, 2013

Chinese labour pool begins to drain

Working age population shrinks for first time in recent history

Editorial from COMMENT Jan 18, 2013

Smoke alarms

Air pollution has a human and an economic cost

Jan 18, 2013

China wealth gap data stoke scepticism

Experts say official measure of income inequality inaccurate

Jan 18, 2013

Hazardous smog blankets Beijing

Emergency measures introduced to cut pollution levels

Jan 17, 2013

Beijing calls for end to Myanmar fighting

Rare rebuke after another artillery shell lands in China

Jan 17, 2013

Scientist hits out over China air quality

Chinese expert blames pollution on lack of political reform

Global Insight Jan 17, 2013

China’s smog emerges from invisible cloak

Politicians can not ignore the air pollution problem

From GLOBAL ECONOMY Jan 16, 2013

Research rewrites global trade data

US trade imbalance with China shrinks under OECD findings

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