Amazon.com has asked some Chinese cross-border merchants to stop offering goods at a cheaper price on rival platform Temu, according to several sellers, amid intensifying competition from the aggressive budget retailer owned by mainland e-commerce giant PDD Holdings. The local office of US-based Amazon recently informed the managers of some top-selling Chinese brands that they … Read more
Government and public security heads in Zhuhai, southern China, have been replaced, as part of a sidelining of officials deemed responsible for last month’s car attack that killed at least 35 people and shocked the nation. The city’s mayor Huang Zhihao and Xie Rensi, director of the public security bureau, resigned on Sunday, according to … Read more
China’s judges and prosecutors must pay more attention to solving conflicts and ensuring fairness rather than just closing cases, a senior judicial official said in a rare commentary, as authorities reflect on a string of mass killings in recent weeks. Wang Chengguo, secretary of the Political and Legal Affairs Commission of Zhejiang province, wrote in … Read more
A rare bank robbery was thwarted last month in southwestern China when security guards tackled the suspect at the scene, according to an online media report published against the backdrop of a series of random killings in recent months. The Paper reported on Friday that staff at a Bank of China branch, in the small … Read more
Following a spate of mass killings in China, the country’s legal professionals are calling for better mental health and social resources while urging authorities to dig for the deeper reasons behind these attacks. On the evening of November 11, a car was driven into a crowd of people exercising at a sports centre in the … Read more
A knife-wielding brawl in the southwestern province of Sichuan ended with the fatal stabbing of a man, in China’s third deadly episode in recent days. According to Chengdu police, a 35-year-old man surnamed Zhu stabbed a man on Monday afternoon after a traffic dispute. The victim died despite medical treatment. Zhu has been placed under … Read more
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, whose China president is under investigation, was previously investigated for medical insurance fraud cases involving cancer medication sales, according to new Chinese media reports. The news comes after the British-Swedish company announced on its official website last week that its China chief Leon Wang was cooperating “with an ongoing investigation”, and its … Read more
Heavy rainfall in central China’s Hunan province triggered three river dyke breaches in less than 20 hours and forced the evacuations of thousands of people, as water reached “record levels”, state media reported. The latest breach of the Juan River in Xiangtan happened early on Monday afternoon in the wake of Typhoon Gaemi, state news … Read more
China is stepping up its use of technology such as satellites and radar in disaster relief work as extreme weather events become more frequent. Lessons have been learned from the rescue efforts of the devastating 2008 earthquake in Sichuan in 2008 that killed more than 69,000 people and wounded more than 370,000, according to Weng … Read more
The hi-tech manufacturing hub of Suzhou in eastern China has called on civil servants to “get used to living a tight life”, rolling out spending cuts in response to Beijing’s nationwide austerity call to cope with a sluggish economy. The cutbacks include not replacing official cars until they are 10 years old or have done … Read more
