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BEIJING – China's military has grown stronger in the past year in its fight against corruption, Chinese President Xi Jinping told the Chinese armed forces on Feb 11, making a rare public reference to the graft probes linked to the country's top generals. China's two highest-ranked generals have been ensnared in disciplinary probes, with Mr He Weidong expe lled in October 2025 and Mr Zhang Youxia placed under investigation in January, marking one of the most high-profile purges of the Chinese military in decades. "The past year has been unusual and extraordinary," Mr Xi told the military in a virtual address. "The People's Army has deepened its political education, effectively addressed various risks and challenges and undergone revolutionary forging in the fight against corruption." The downfall of Mr Zhang and Mr He, the two vice-chairmen of the Central Military Commission (CMC), has cut China's seven-man supreme military leadership body t...

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By Low De Wei (Bloomberg) — CapitaLand Investment Ltd's shares fell nearly 6 per cent after the Singapore-based property asset manager posted a sharp drop in earnings, with valuation losses in one of its largest markets, China, still weighing on its profit. The firm, majority-owned by Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings Pte, saw its net income for 2025 slump 70 per cent to S$145 million (US$115 million). The results, unveiled on Wednesday (11 Feb), came significantly below the S$663 million average estimate of analysts compiled by Bloomberg. Revenue fell 24 per cent to S$2.1 billion, largely matching the average analyst estimate. The company incurred a fair value loss of S$545 million in China amid "challenging leasing conditions" hitting most of its asset classes, with its office occupancy there dipping slightly to 80 per cent. Chief Executive Officer Lee Chee Koon said in a statement that the firm will "accelerate capital recycling, including evaluating...

BEIJING – China's top court has overturned a Canadian man's death sentence on drug charges, his lawyer said on Feb 9, marking a breakthrough in a case that has strained diplomatic relations between Ottawa and Beijing for years. Robert Schellenberg was arrested in China in 2014 for suspected drug smuggling and convicted in 2018, initially receiving a 15-year prison sentence. He was subsequently condemned to death in a January 2019 retrial – one month after Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou was arrested in Vancouver on a United States warrant. China's Supreme People's Court on Feb 6 ruled against a death sentence passed by the lower court, Beijing-based lawyer Zhang Dongshuo told Reuters. The case will be sent to Liaoning Provincial High People's Court for retrial, he said. The breakthrough came less than a month after Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney made a four-day visit to China, where he hailed both countries' improving ties after they had soured under...

China will offer firm support for "patriotic pro-reunification forces" in ⁠Taiwan and strike hard against "separatists," the top Chinese official in charge of ‌policy towards the democratically-governed island ‍said in comments published on Tuesday. China, which views Taiwan as its own territory despite the objections of the government in Taipei, has ramped up its military and political pressure against the island as Beijing seeks to assert its sovereignty claims. Addressing this year's annual "Taiwan Work Conference," the ruling communist party's fourth-ranked leader Wang Huning said officials ‍must advance the "great cause of ​national reunification," the official state-run Xinhua news agency said. It is necessary to "firmly support the patriotic pro-unification forces on the island, resolutely strike against 'Taiwan independence' separatist forces, oppose interfe...

SHANGHAI, Feb 11 (Reuters) - Eli Lilly has won Chinese regulators' approval for ‌its drug to treat chronic inflammatory ‌bowel disease, expanding the treatment's use to the world's ​second-largest pharmaceutical market, it said on Wednesday. The drug, mirikizumab, is authorised as a treatment for moderately-to-severely active Crohn's disease and ‌ulcerative colitis, the ⁠U.S. drugmaker said in a statement on its official WeChat account. The ⁠decision marks its China branch's first approval for an innovative medicine in the ​digestive immunity ​field, according to ​the statement. The drug ‌is already approved for treatment in several other countries, including the U.S. Lilly, which also sells drugs in China for other diseases, including Alzheimer's, diabetes and obesity, did ‌not immediately respond to ​a Reuters request for ​comment on ​a lau nch date or costs. The ulcerative ‌colitis therapy market in ​China will ​see "considerab...

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Sweet news – Singapore just scooped gold at the Gelato World Cup 2026 in Rimini, Italy, officially claiming the title of World Champion. The victory is a major step up from the team's 4th-place finish in 2024.  Photograph: IEG AsiaSingapore team at Gelato World Cup 2026 The Gelato World Cup, held at Sigep World – the World Expo for Foodservice Excellence – is basically the Olympics of artisan gelato, bringing together the best teams from around the world to show off their skill, creativity, and flair. This year, the competition brought together 12 national teams from across the globe: four from America, four from Europe, and four from Asia. Together, they faced ten highly demanding technical challenges designed to test technical precision, creativity, and presentation. Competitors crafted everything from classic gelato creations like cakes, sticks, and single portions in glass to advanced artistic masterpieces, including chocolate sculptures and large-scale showpieces.  ...

Published Thu, Aug 14, 2025 · 11:42 AM [SINGAPORE] Every evening, staff at Beiyuan Grand Hotel in Beijing set up street stalls selling freshly-cooked gourmet dishes trying to make up for falling revenue indoors as Chinese consumers and firms cut spending on travel, conferences and banquets. "These days, it's not that people will come just because you lower prices or offer discounts — they simply don't come at all," said Anwen Xu, its sales director, explaining the need to find new income streams. Beiyuan is among at least 15 high-end hotels nationwide hawking food outside in recent weeks, according to their social media and Chinese news sites. Their sales had been hit by weaker consumer demand, cuts to corporate and official travel budgets and a lack of banquet reservations, staff said. Xu said Beijing's moves earlier this year to reinforce austerity and discipline among public sector workers and party members, including bans on dining out in large groups an...

Over 10 million students graduate from Chinese universities every year, straining an already crowded labour market. Yet the "micro drama" industry is emerging as a crucial lifeline for hundreds of thousands of young jobseekers: offering the chance to turn creativity into a stable pay cheque. The sector was estimated to directly generate about 690,000 jobs in 2025 – mostly for young people – and over 2 million positions when counting upstream and downstream roles, according to a recent report by Peking University's National School of Development. The emerging industry – whose dramas run just a few minutes per episode, with fast-paced storylines and frequent twists meant to capture eyeballs – has relatively low entry barriers and sustainable opportunities, particularly important given chronically high youth unemployment, the report's authors said. The national monthly output of micro dramas has stabilised at about 3,000, according to state-run news agency Xinhua, wi...