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In a speech on Jan 12, Chinese President Xi Jinping said the fight against corruption remains "severe and complex", while calling for an "unwavering high-pressure stance".  China must promote the anti-corruption efforts with stronger determination and find innovative ways to tackle any new trends of corruption, Xi said during a CCDI plenary session.  "Corruption is a roadblock and stumbling stone to the Party and nation's development," he added. "The fight against corruption is a major battle that we cannot afford to lose and must not lose."  His high-profile campaign against corruption continues. Two top Chinese military leaders were expelled from the ruling Communist Party and the military on corruption charges in October.  In their 2025 campaign, authorities investigated 33,000 individuals for offering bribes and transferred 4,306 of them to prosecutors.  Figures were up from 26,000 investigations and 4,271 transfers recorded in 2024, ...

A video clip released by a woman in China in which her husband is seen smashing up their home because she bought a 1,500-yuan (US$215) dishwasher has gone viral on social media. The woman, who lives in Guangdong province, southern China, said in a video posted on January 8, that she had bought the machine from an online platform without telling her husband. She said she needed it because the tap water in winter was too cold for her to wash by hand, the Dahe News reported. The distraught woman was left in tears after her husband's violent outburst. Photo: 163.com Her husband does not do any washing up, according to the unidentified woman. The man only found out about the purchase when a worker came to install the dishwasher in their rented flat. The husband ordered his wife to cancel the order and return the machine but she refused. He said that the family could not afford the dishwasher because of high water and electricity charges.

The move shows that officials are focused on levelling the playing field for investors and ensuring market stability [SHANGHAI] China is pulling the plug on a key advantage held by high-frequency traders, removing servers dedicated to those firms out of local exchanges' data centres, according to people familiar with the matter. Commodities futures exchanges in Shanghai and Guangzhou are among those that have ordered local brokers to shift servers for their clients out of data centres run by the bourses, according to the people, who said the move was led by regulators. The change does not only affect high-frequency firms but they are likely to feel the biggest impact. The Shan ghai Futures Exchange has told brokers they need to get equipment for high-speed clients out by the end of next month, while other clients need to do so by Apr 30, the people said. The clampdown will hit China's army of domestic high-frequency firms but will also impact a swathe of global firms that ...

US-China For more than two decades, the African Growth and Opportunity Act has been the anchor of US–Africa economic relations. The decision by the US House of Representatives on Monday to overwhelmingly (340-54) extend the trade pact for a further three years reflects a strategic recalibration by Washington in the face of China's deepening economic and diplomatic engagement with Africa. As China cements its role as Africa's largest trading partner, financier and infrastructure builder, the US has found itself increasingly exposed, especially under the Donald Trump administration. Through his "America First" domestic and foreign policy, President Trump has rolled back critical aid programmes and withdrawn from key UN and other multilateral institutions that mostly deal with problems in the Global South, particularly Africa. While the proposed ext...

China's birth count plummeted to a record low last year, falling by about 10 million from its 2016 peak and slashing the total by more than half in less than a decade, as the country's population shrank for a fourth consecutive year. Only 7.92 million babies were born in 2025, down 17 per cent from 9.54 million in 2024 , according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on Monday. This marked the lowest birth figure since records began in 1949 and broke the previous record low set in 2023. China's total population also fell by 3.39 million in 2025 to 1.4049 billion from 1.4083 billion a year earlier, the bureau said. By sheer numbers, that marked the steepest annual population decline on record, apart from during China's devastating famine from 1959 to 1961. Meanwhile, about 11.31 million people died last year – one of the highest totals in five decades. "The pace of the decline is striking, particularly in the absence of major shocks," said ...

BEIJING: China's economy grew at one of the slowest rates in decades last year, according to official data released Monday (Jan 19), as officials struggle to overcome persistently low consumer spending and a debt crisis in the country's property sector . While the 5 per cent expansion was in line with Beijing's annual target - a low-ball figure analysts have likened to a political comfort blanket - observers warned it was driven largely by exports and masked weak sentiment on the ground. Analysts had forecast 4.9 per cent growth, and the economy grew 5.0 per cent in 2024. Gross domestic product (GDP) in the fourth quarter slowed to a three-year low as domestic demand softened, ⁠and while the full-year pace hit Beijing's target, trade tensions and structural imbalances pose significant risks to the outlook. China's economy grew 4.5 per cent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, data from NBS showed on Monday, slowing from the ⁠third-quarter's ‍4.8 pe...

PHNOM PENH: China's embassy in Cambodia said on Saturday (Jan 17) that a recent spate of disappearances of Chinese nationals into cyberfraud compounds poses a "serious obstacle" to the allies' ties. Ambassador Wang Wenbin urged Phnom Penh to strengthen a crackdown on the illicit industry in a meeting with Cambodia's top ministers, a statement on the embassy's WeChat account said. "China is highly concerned about a number of recent cases involving Chinese citizens going missing or disappearing in Cambodia," it quoted Wang as saying. Most of the harmful cases involving Chinese nationals were related to online fraud, Wang said, adding they were "inconsistent with the traditional friendship between China and Cambodia". The Cambodian government has said it is cracking down on the illicit industry, which employs at least 100,000 people in the Southeast Asian country, according to United Nations figures. Initially largely targeting Chinese s...

China has halted imports of soybeans from five Brazilian exporters after inspectors found pesticide-treated wheat mixed into a cargo bound for Beijing, officials from both countries said on Thursday. The suspension by China's General Administration of Customs was communicated to Brazil's agriculture ministry on Wednesday and made public on Thursday. The ban cover s two Cargill facilities and one plant each run by Louis Dreyfus Co., CHS Agronegocios and 3Tentos Agroindustrial. Four of the plants are in Sao Paulo state. One is in Rio Grande do Sul. Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with SCMP Knowledge , our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team. Inspectors in China discovered the contamination during checks at a port. The ship Shine Ruby was carrying about 69,000 tonnes of soybeans. Inside the hold, they found roughly ten tonnes...

Russia's economy has been dominated by energy, raw materials and heavy industry, while light manufacturing - clothing, household goods, consumer electronics - lags behind China's capacity - a contrast repeatedly noted by international institutions like the World Bank and Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). But advantage no longer guarantees sales, said Zhou. Visitor numbers never fully recovered after the pandemic and the outbreak of the Ukraine war. "Even after visa-free travel started, arrivals haven't come back the way people hoped," he said. "There are barely any customers." The slowdown is reflected in rental prices. A local tailor, identified only by his surname Wang, said monthly rent once peaked at about 500,000 yuan during the boom years. Today, after renegotiations and landlord concessions, it remains below 30,000 yuan. "The size of the rent cut mirrors the drop in sales," he said. "Those who do c...