China has announced the lifting of restrictions on foreign investment for several industries, from green tea to civil aeroplane engines, in a special free trade zone in the business hub of Shanghai.

China has published rules governing human organ transplants in its latest effort to clean up a business that has been criticised as being profit-driven, with little regard for medical ethics.

Career civil servant Donald Tsang was declared the winner of Hong Kong’s leadership race today, but he got few words of congratulations from editorial writers, who accused him of arrogantly steamrolling his rivals in an undemocratic campaign.

Chinese President Jiang Zemin flew to Hong Kong today to mingle with corporate bosses at a forum shadowed by controversy when their former British colony apparently tried to mute Falun Gong protests by barring more than 100 overseas members from entering.