{
  "id": 13434,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3361818/china-hits-tripcom-us765-million-antitrust-penalty-after-six-month-investigation",
  "title": "China hits Trip.com with US$765 million antitrust penalty after six-month investigation",
  "summary": "China’s market regulator has imposed a 5.2 billion yuan (US$765 million) penalty on Trip.com Group, the country’s largest online travel services provider, for “monopolistic conduct”. Trip.com – operator of its namesake international platform, China-focused siblings Ctrip and Qunar, and global site Skyscanner – had “abused its dominant market position”, the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said on Saturday. The market regulator confiscated 1.658 billion yuan in illegal gains and.",
  "authors": "Wency Chen",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "regulation,finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-07-25T02:32:54.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-25T05:10:48.796Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/13434",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3361818/china-hits-tripcom-us765-million-antitrust-penalty-after-six-month-investigation",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}