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A Malaysian comedian has been banned from China’s Twitter-like social media platform, days after he published clips from a live show predicting his skits about Beijing’s heavily censored politics and ...

For years, Shanghai entrepreneur Zhu Jun knew only the frustration of trying to turn a profit from his Internet business. "People never expected to pay for anything," he says. Times have changed. This ...

Anyone who says that China’s President Xi Jinping does not have a sense of humor is definitely not following the news from the Pacific these days. China last week applied for membership in the ...