It's been said that even China's population of 1.4 billion couldn't fill all the empty homes. Many are high-rise apartments in gleaming new financial districts that initially failed to take off.

It's been said that even China's population of 1.4 billion couldn't fill all the empty homes. Many are high-rise apartments in gleaming new financial districts that initially failed to take off.

China’s latest crackdown on its $80-$167 billion food delivery industry has exposed a hidden layer of the digital economy, where millions of consumers interact every day without realising how little ...

ACROSS China, vast cities of silent high-rises stretch across the horizon – empty, unfinished, and uninhabited. These so-called “ghost cities” are haunting reminders of the country’s breakneck ...

Conjured out of nothing and lived in by seemingly no one, China’s so-called ghost cities became the subject of Western media fascination a decade ago. Photos of these huge urban developments went ...

It might be a humble third-tier city in one of the poorest parts of China, but by next year Guiyang will boast a seven-star hotel centred on a 67-storey, 400-metre-tall skyscraper. It will be home to ...

IT WAS hailed as a bustling utopia with state of the art facilities. Yet years after this billion-dollar city was built, it remains eerily vacant. But more than a decade after the northern Chinese ...

China faces the biggest property default on record as credit curbs threaten to break the housing boom, leaving a string of "ghost towns" across the country. The Chinese newspaper Economic Daily News ...

On last night's Dateline on SBS ONE, Asia correspondent Adrian Brown returned to update one of the program's most watched stories. Here he reveals the rather mixed response to the media attention: ...