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The pro-democracy news outlet Stand News and its former chief editors Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam become the first defendants to be convicted of sedition in Hong Kong since its handover to China in 1997, [21] which Chung sentenced to 21 months' imprisonment on 26 September.
In October 2012, Album of Mountains and Rivers by Qi Baishi sold for almost US$6 million in China Guardian's Hong Kong auction. [8] Jin Shangyi’s Tajik Bride sold at the 2013 Autumn Auctions for 85.1 million yuan (US$12.25 million). [18] China Guardian's 2015 Spring Auction sold US$301.2 million worth of art. [14]
Yahoo! Auctions is a service set up by the online search giant Yahoo! in 1998 to compete against eBay. [2]There are currently only two localizations of the service active in Taiwan and Japan; Yahoo! has discontinued the service in the United States, Canada, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Kingdom and Ireland.
China is holding the most important meeting in its political calendar, the five-yearly Communist Party congress, where President Xi Jinping is expected to gain an unprecedented third term as the ...
Lunar New Year is most commonly celebrated in China and other Asian countries. That's why you also see it called Chinese New Year. It starts with the first new moon of the lunar calendar and ends ...
Ecuador's foreign ministry announces the reinstatement of visa requirements for travelers from China, citing an increase in irregular migratory flows from the latter. [39] 21 June – China officially defines Taiwanese separatist behavior as a criminal act. [40] 22 June – Six people are found dead following a landslide in Shanghang County ...
The importance of green space in cities across China has become more apparent in recent decades as rapid urbanization was accompanied by suffocating pollution that in Beijing peaked around 2013.
The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group. [2] [3] Founded in 1903 by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham, it has remained Hong Kong's newspaper of record since British colonial rule.