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Companies in particular expressed concern about language that would require them to cooperate with China to "protect national security." This appears to be too-broad a phrase to be included in the final version of the law. Patrick Poon, China researcher at ... ( read original story ...)

The next key reading of China's economy will be tomorrow's inflation figures from the National Bureau of Statistics with market economists forecasting better news. Producer prices are expected to end a four-year run of deflation, which in turn should lead ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING - China's top legislature effectively barred two democratically elected separatist lawmakers from taking office in Hong Kong with a ruling Monday on the city's constitution, an intervention into a local political dispute that's likely to spark ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING -- China's legislature has approved a cybersecurity law that human rights activists warn will tighten political controls and foreign companies say might isolate Chinese industries. Chinese leaders have said the law approved Monday is required to ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING -- China is attempting to crack down on box office fraud in the world's second-biggest movie market by setting out punishments for companies that fabricate ticket sales and other data under the country's first film law. Under the legislation ... ( read original story ...)

Therefore, he said, that person is disqualified. 12:55 p.m. A top mainland Chinese official has delivered an emotional rebuke of two Hong Kong lawmakers who used a derogatory term about China, labeling them traitors to the Chinese people. The pair had ... ( read original story ...)

the new rules also prohibit online news outlets from streaming original reporting. Instead, they must use state-sanctioned reports and sources. That censorship is the government's primary motive for monitoring live online video is nothing new in China. ( read original story ...)

The top legislative panel in China said Beijing must intervene in the dispute. It added that it should deter advocates of Hong Kong independence, as their actions were a threat to national security, state news agency Xinhua reported. Some demonstrators ... ( read original story ...)

BEIJING China will maintain steady growth and speed up economic transformation, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said on Saturday, adding that the world's No. 2 economy would be able to overcome current challenges, official news agency Xinhua reported. ( read original story ...)

and use his experience to implement new tax policies that will help put "China on a more sustainable fiscal revenue path". But the most colourful insight into the man catapulted into the high profile job comes from one of Beijing's local news agencies. ( read original story ...)