Esther Teo | The Straits Times

Esther Teo

China Correspondent

Work on rail-link for Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-city project begins

China tackles flagging growth on back of difficult structural reform, weakening global demand

China's defence budget to increase by 7 to 8 per cent this year

Multi-pronged approach needed to tackle poverty in China

China's traffic jams and flight delays: A traveller's nightmare

Visiting a cockroach farm in China's Chengdu

Firefighter, 19, pulled alive from blast wreckage in Tianjin; cause of blasts still unknown

It was the loudest earth-shaking roar I've ever heard, says victim of Tianjin blasts

Chinese MH370 relatives stage emotional protest outside Malaysian embassy in Beijing

Families of Chinese MH370 passengers protest outside MAS office in Beijing after debris news

China's safety issues under scrutiny again after rash of escalator accidents

Relatives of Chinese MH370 passengers demand quick confirmation of debris

Chaoyang's citizen crime-busters

Mr Lee Kuan Yew fostered region's ties with world: Xi

Remember great man like Mr Lee Kuan Yew by building stronger ties: China's state councillor

Chinese People's Liberation Army tanks move down Changan Ave. during a military parade in Beijing, China. Amid a slowing economy, China has raised its defence budget by 10.1 per cent to 887 billion yuan (S$193.4 billion) this year, keeping its nearly

China raises defence Budget by 10.1%, the slowest growth in military spending in 5 years

Visitors gather on Shanghai's famous Bund to look at the skyline of the Pudong financial district across the Huangpu River. China has lowered its 2015 economic growth target to "around 7 per cent", state media said on Thursday, as the authorities att

China lowers 2015 growth target to 'around 7 per cent': Xinhua

Mr Zhou Yongkang, 72, faces a judicial probe for a slew of charges, including taking bribes, helping family members and cronies plunder government assets, and leaking official secrets, according to the official Xinhua news agency. -- PHOTO: CHIN

Rise and fall of China's former security chief Zhou Yongkang

Fallen former security chief Yongkang is widely expected to be expelled from the Chinese Communist Party at the Party's fourth plenum. -PHOTO: REUTERS

Senior officials linked to Zhou Yongkang expelled from China ruling party

Deep lines edge the tanned face of Mr Shu Xiaoping, a hint of the life as a farmer he left behind when he moved from a rural village to the city centre of Chongqing more than a decade ago. A cigarette in hand and a sturdy bamboo pole in the other, th

Left behind by China's rush to modernity

Former security czar Zhou Yongkang on the front page of the China Daily at a news-stand in Hong Kong yesterday. His expulsion from the CCP seems imminent and the likelihood of an open criminal trial is high, say experts.

China's ex-security chief 'unlikely to get light sentence', say experts

China starts live-fire drills in East China Sea

A family member cries as she and other relatives pray during a candlelight vigil for passengers onboard the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the early morning at Lido Hotel in Beijing on April 8, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

In Beijing, anger has given way to acceptance

US first lady Michelle Obama (L) is greeted by student Zhu Xuanhao before giving a speech at the Peking University in Beijing on March 22, 2014. -- PHOTO: REUTERS

Michelle Obama champions freedom of expression at Peking University