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Rowan Callick is a double Walkley Award winner and a Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year. He has worked and lived in Papua New Guinea, Hong Kong and Beijing.

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The Beltana project near Leigh Creek (part of the Flinders Project) owned by Perilya. Stockpiles of zinc silicate ore at Beltana mine. (pic supplied by Perilya, Nov 2007)

Chinese probe big mine loss

The former chairman of a Chinese state-owned enterprise is being probed over $1bn in Australian mining losses.

Rowan Callick

The World

A man rides a electric bicycle past a China's 19th Party Congress promotion billboard with two women on the back seat in Beijing on October 11, 2017. The Chinese Communist Party's week-long, twice-a-decade congress will be held on October 18. / AFP PHOTO / WANG ZHAO

Beijing cleaning house for Xi

Beijing is in familiar lock-down as the countdown begins to the national communist party congress on Wednesday.

Rowan Callick

Not all news from north Asia is bad

Here’s something novel at a time of deep anxiety in our region: an equity market being described as ‘a screaming buy’.

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Companies

North Shore woman, Jackie Yun has found great success in the hospitality business with over 70 cafe culture food stores in China. Picture: John Appleyard

Adventure in the biggest market

What began as an adventure has led to the biggest company in China developed by an Australian.

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Inquirer

A man walks past a mural showing Chinese soldiers and military hardware at an exhibition highlighting China's achievements under five years of leadership by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Beijing Exhibition Hall in Beijing, Thursday, Sept. 28, 2017. The exhibition comes ahead of a Communist Party congress in October during which Xi is expected to be confirmed for a second five-year term as China's head of state. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Party time for Xi Jinping

The key 19th congress in Beijing is likely to further raise the Chinese leader’s stature.

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The World

Nicolas Chow, Deputy Chairman for Sotheby's Asia, holds a Ru Guanyao brush washer bowl from China's Song Dynasty during a press conference after its record breaking sale for 37.7 million USD at the Sotheby's Chinese Works of Art Autumn Sales in Hong Kong on October 3, 2017. The 1,000-year-old bowl from China's Song Dynasty sold at auction for 37.7 million USD on October 3 breaking the record for Chinese porcelain, auction house Sotheby’s said. / AFP PHOTO / Anthony WALLACE

$48m for bowl you can’t wash

A bowl used for cleaning paint brushes has been bought at a Sotheby’s sale in Hong Kong for $48m.

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WORLD COMMENTARYRowan Callick

FILE - This undated file photo distributed on Sept. 3, 2017, by the North Korean government, shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, second from right, at an undisclosed location in North Korea. As North Korea steps up its nuclear weapons tests and threats, South Koreaâ€™s Unification Ministry faces an almost existential crisis. It wasnâ€™t too long ago that the ministry was one of Seoulâ€™s most powerful government departments. But the political sway is mostly gone after a decade that saw relations between the Koreas go from bad to worse. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP, File)

Korea peace deal is possible

What is the chance of a more coherent approach to North Korea emerging from Donald Trump’s tour of Asia next month?

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(FILES) This file photo taken on September 5, 2017 shows trucks returning over the Friendship Bridge, from the North Korean town of Sinuiju to the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province. North Korea's nuclear antics have rattled its alliance with China to the point that Beijing is allowing the previously unthinkable to be discussed: Is it time to prepare for the renegade regime's collapse? / AFP PHOTO / GREG BAKER

Kim’s ghost city in China

North Korea’s dictator ordered the execution of an uncle, whose economic vision died with him.

Rowan Callick

Business

Chinese tourists stand near a Chinese flag as they look out towards North Korea while visiting the Broken Bridge, in the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province on September 5, 2017. The Broken Bridge once connected Dandong and the North Korean town of Sinuiju, but was bombed by the US during the Korean war and now only reaches half way across the Yalu River. Russian President Vladimir Putin warned September 5 of a global catastrophe unless a diplomatic solution is reached over North Korea, but rejected US calls for more sanctions as

Chinese unicorns on rise

An innovation boom is under way in China, according to investment bank UBS.

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Business

Australian Trade Minister Steve Ciobo speaks to the media during a press conference after a meeting at Parliament House in Canberra, Wednesday, August 9, 2017. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

China food import rules delayed

China has postponed regulations requiring an inspection certificate with each shipment of food products.

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