Monday's devastating earthquake in southwest China again leads coverage of China in the main newspapers. The China Daily added that the earthquake will further complicate authorities' macroeconomic policymaking at a time when growing yuan lending is already raising fears of further inflation. China's annualized growth in yuan lending dropped slig...

Unsurprisingly, most China-focused news outlets provide extensive coverage of the devastating earthquake that hit Sichuan province Monday, killing at least 10,000 people.The Wall Street Journal reported that Shanghai stocks fell more than 3% in the minutes after the market opened in the wake of the earthquake, before climbing again after the “initial k...

The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times and the South China Morning Post all led their online China business coverage with the release of April inflation numbers by the National Statistics Bureau. The WSJ relies on an AP feed, while the FT gets its wire news via Reuters. China's consumer price index rose by a near decade-high 8.5% year-on-year in Ap...

The Wall Street Journal leads its China coverage with an article on China’s increasingly complex inflation problem. Policymakers are worried because price rises have begun to spread from food, where they were previously concentrated, to other goods and services. Although headline inflation declined from its peak of 8.7% in February to 8.3% in March, th...