China adds tax breaks to help jobs, warns on bad loan risk

(Reuters) - China's Finance Ministry said on Tuesday that it would extend tax breaks for job creation, as the government seeks to boost the labor market, while the banking regulator warned slowing economic growth raised the risk of bad loans.

In China, the Appearance of Consensus Is Breaking Down

GUANGZHOU, China — For two decades after the Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989, China seemed on the surface like a country where free-market and even laissez-faire principles prevailed.

From ‘Superpower’ to ‘Time for a Reboot’

GURGAON – To understand the pall that slowing growth and seemingly paralyzed policy making has cast over business sentiment in India look no further than a panel held at an economic conference here this week: ‘‘Rebooting India.’’

China's push for rail reform could be dead in its tracks

BEIJING: When Zhang Dong sat down recently to book train tickets for his trip home for the Chinese new year, he got a taste of the frustration that has helped make China's railway ministry a focus of anger against the country's many bureaucrats.