Insulated in designer skiwear against a temperature of -15° Celsius, three of China's burgeoning ski set bundle into a gondola headed to a wind-swept mountaintop in Heilongjiang province, Northeastern China.
China overtook Germany last year to become world export champion, official figures confirmed on Tuesday.
Chinese authorities have seized 72 tons of milk powder tainted with melamine and are trying to track down an additional 100 tons, less than two years after contaminated milk killed babies and sickened people across China.
Police in China shut down what officials think was the largest training Web site for computer hackers, local media said.
World-renowned short seller Jim Chanos -- the hedge fund manager who called the fall of Enron and the systemic problems cause by subprime mortgages --recently turned his gimlet eye on China. He saw a country whose rapid rise was hiding massive flaws: grossly inflated real estate prices, irresponsible construction lending, massive overbuilding, a banking system larded with bad loans, and unreliable government data. Fitch Ratings weighed in this week saying that China's banks face the greatest "bubble risk" of any Asian country.
Two of the world's most famous pandas received a celebrity's welcome in China Friday after being shipped from the U.S. aboard the aptly named FedEx Panda Express.
Declaring "I see a lot of dark clouds on the horizon," a former top official in the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the U.S.-China relationship is at a critical moment and any further deterioration will not be good for world peace.
Two beloved giant pandas left the United States for their new homes in China on Thursday.
One year into U.S. President Barack Obama's term, China-U.S. relations have not taken off as many people originally wished for but have experienced a mixed record and given out mixed signals.
Challenge China's position on Taiwan and watch China go ballistic. When the United States last week announced plans to sell advanced weapons to Taiwan, China fired back with vitriolic anger. It's a "crude interference in China's domestic affairs," said He Yafei, vice minister of foreign affairs. It could "lead to repercussions that neither side wishes to see," he said. The same day, China suspended plans for military exchanges and threatened sanctions on American companies involved in the arms sales.
Insulated in designer skiwear against a temperature of -15° Celsius, three of China's burgeoning ski set bundle into a gondola headed to a wind-swept mountaintop in Heilongjiang province, Northeastern China.
China overtook Germany last year to become world export champion, official figures confirmed on Tuesday.
Chinese authorities have seized 72 tons of milk powder tainted with melamine and are trying to track down an additional 100 tons, less than two years after contaminated milk killed babies and sickened people across China.
Police in China shut down what officials think was the largest training Web site for computer hackers, local media said.
World-renowned short seller Jim Chanos -- the hedge fund manager who called the fall of Enron and the systemic problems cause by subprime mortgages --recently turned his gimlet eye on China. He saw a country whose rapid rise was hiding massive flaws: grossly inflated real estate prices, irresponsible construction lending, massive overbuilding, a banking system larded with bad loans, and unreliable government data. Fitch Ratings weighed in this week saying that China's banks face the greatest "bubble risk" of any Asian country.
Two of the world's most famous pandas received a celebrity's welcome in China Friday after being shipped from the U.S. aboard the aptly named FedEx Panda Express.
Declaring "I see a lot of dark clouds on the horizon," a former top official in the Chinese Foreign Ministry said the U.S.-China relationship is at a critical moment and any further deterioration will not be good for world peace.
Two beloved giant pandas left the United States for their new homes in China on Thursday.
One year into U.S. President Barack Obama's term, China-U.S. relations have not taken off as many people originally wished for but have experienced a mixed record and given out mixed signals.
Challenge China's position on Taiwan and watch China go ballistic. When the United States last week announced plans to sell advanced weapons to Taiwan, China fired back with vitriolic anger. It's a "crude interference in China's domestic affairs," said He Yafei, vice minister of foreign affairs. It could "lead to repercussions that neither side wishes to see," he said. The same day, China suspended plans for military exchanges and threatened sanctions on American companies involved in the arms sales.
"Media must cease reporting on the discovery of a body at a psychiatric hospital in Dongguan."
China has threatened to slap sanctions on American companies that sell arms to its rival Taiwan as part of a range of punitive actions Beijing is taking to protest the deal.
An earthquake killed one person and injured 11 in southwest China early Sunday, state media reported.
A 5.2-magnitude quake struck eastern Sichuan province, China, on Sunday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
Chinese actress Zhou Xun is a face recognized by millions, but so far, little known outside of China.
Quick: which nation builds the most wind turbines? If you guessed America, with its blustery Great Plains dotted with whirring GE blades, you'd be wrong. In 2009, China became the planet's largest producer.
Scientists have uncovered startling new evidence which definitively show what color feathers certain dinosaurs had -- reddish-orange.
China's leadership succession process will step up a gear on Thursday when Li Keqiang, the man widely tipped to be the country's next premier, addresses the World Economic Forum.
In China it can be hard for millionaires to find love. Just ask Xu Tianli.
U.S. stocks were poised for a lower open Tuesday amid concerns of a slowdown in China and ahead of the start of a two-day Federal Reserve meeting.
China's top soccer official has been sacked after being questioned by police as part of an investigation into match-fixing.
China's information technology ministry called accusations of government involvement in cyber attacks alleged by Google "groundless" in an interview with state-run media on Sunday.
China fired back Friday, saying the United States is damaging ties between the countries by highlighting cyberattacks alleged by Google.
Now that the big guns have waded into the public standoff between Google and China, who will be the next to blink?
They are the biggest names in the Internet world you may have never heard of: Baidu, Alibaba, Youku and Sinu.
The group gathers every weekday: At least four ladies, and sometimes as many as eight, gather at the cavernous, badly lit brokerage office on Shanghai's Xiangyang Lu in what was known, when China was colonized by European powers in the 19th century, as the French Concession.
There is a long and growing laundry list in recent months of China butting heads with the rest of the world and, analysts say, the rest of the world had better get used to it.
Google's threat to shut down its operations in China might seem like just a dispute between a private company and a government, but the implications are huge for the world's fastest-growing economy, for the United States and for global relations, says analyst Fareed Zakaria.
China's economy grew by 8.7 percent in 2009, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.
Stocks slumped Wednesday as a strong dollar and questions about China's lending practices slammed commodities, one of the leaders of the recent rally.
Oil prices plunged Wednesday on a stronger dollar and amid investor concern that the Chinese government will continue to tighten its credit policy.
The United States plans to express formal concern to the Chinese government soon after Google said a cyber attack from China targeted human rights activists.
The stage was set, the event sold-out. International media cameras lined up along on the catwalk beneath rows of gleaming spotlights, but an hour before the Mr. Gay China pageant was supposed to start, police shut it down.
Foreign correspondents in at least two Beijing, China, bureaus of news organizations have had their Google e-mail accounts attacked, with e-mails forwarded to a mysterious address, according to the Foreign Correspondents' Club of China.
Snow and freezing temperatures in China's western Xinjiang autonomous region have killed at least four people, state media reported Monday.
China has further expanded technical access -- allowing text-messaging services to resume -- in its western Xinjiang autonomous region after cutting service because of deadly rioting over the summer, state-run media reported.
China seizes the limelight in the data due to be published this week, with its economic growth likely to have accelerated amid mounting concerns about inflationary pressures.
Housing prices in China accelerated in December, climbing 7.8 percent from the same month a year earlier and prompting a flurry of new government measures as Beijing attempts to slow soaring prices without derailing the economic recovery.
Google's announcement that China should either stop censoring Internet searches or risk a pullout by the search-engine giant rocked the online world Wednesday, leaving observers to break down the meaning of the provocative move.
China will ramp up the monitoring of high-level public officials' family members to keep them from hiding profits from corruption, state media reported Thursday.
Just hours before Google announced late on Tuesday that China-based hackers had attacked its systems last month, China's cyber warriors were at work -- this time defacing Iranian Web sites in retaliation for a hacker attack on the pages of a Chinese search engine.
Stocks rallied Wednesday as investors resumed the advance after a one-day selloff, scooping up tech and financial shares despite Google's potential shutdown of its China operations and mea culpas from the nation's major bank executives.
Within hours of Google's announcement that it was no longer willing to self-censor in China, Google.cn was retrieving results for sensitive topics including the 1989 crackdown at Tiananmen Square, the Dalai Lama and the banned Falun Gong spiritual movement.
Google said Tuesday that it may leave China and shut down its strictly monitored site there, Google.cn, citing censorship rules and a targeted cyber attack on its network infrastructure.
Chinese consumers bought more automobiles last year than Americans did for the first time. A top executive at General Motors thinks that it won't be long before it too will sell more cars in China than in its home market.
The unsolved murder of human rights activists in Russia. Their detention, torture and murder in Iran. Their jailing in China and Vietnam.
The dollar firmed Tuesday as investors shied away from more risky assets amid concerns about tighter monetary policy in China and disappointing corporate results.
If the global economy really does rebound this year, guess what country is likely to lead the way? Hint: it's not the United States.
China's exports rose in December for the first time in 14 months, providing fresh evidence of recovery in the global economy but also placing renewed pressure on Beijing to appreciate its currency.
Some 24 million Chinese men of marrying age will find themselves lacking wives in 2020, partly because of the country's one-child policy, which has led to the abortion of female fetuses, state media said Monday.
A bribery case that has raised concerns among international investors in China has been turned over to prosecutors, who will now decide whether to take it to trial, Australian officials said Monday.
Two emergency teams worked Saturday to rescue 12 miners trapped inside a coal mine that caught fire in east China's Jiangxi Province, local officials told the state-run Xinhua news agency.
China has complained to the United States about the sale of advanced Patriot air defense missiles to Taiwan, which Beijing does not consider an independent legitimate state.
The death toll has risen to 21 from a gas leak at a steel company in northern China, state-run media reported Friday.
Three dairy executives will be prosecuted this week in China for selling melamine-tainted milk, state-run media reported.
Fifty-one children in southeast China have been found to have high levels of lead in their blood, and authorities have linked their illnesses to a battery factory, state-run media reported Wednesday.
A small California company that was one of the first to bring an internet porn filter to market sued the government of China and several major computer companies on Tuesday, accusing them of misappropriating its censorship program for use in the controversial "Green Dam" project.
The auto industry couldn't be happier to have 2009 in its rearview mirror at long last.
The sound of novice strings fills classrooms and hallways in Donggaocun almost every day. At Pinggu Elementary School students are practicing Beethoven's ninth symphony.
Two major criminal cases in one week -- one resulting in an execution, the other a lengthy prison sentence -- have focused new foreign attention on China's judiciary. They are vivid reminders of the limits that China's Communist Party-dominated legal system imposes on the government's efforts to impress the world by its "soft power": its political, cultural and economic influence.
China has begun to expand Internet access in western China's Xinjiang autonomous region after cutting service because of deadly rioting over the summer, state-run media reported.
Investors have pumped a record amount of money into equity funds focused on emerging markets this year in a sharp reversal of sentiment.
China will execute within a few hours a British man convicted of smuggling heroin, his family said Monday.
Five miners were dead and six others missing after a gas explosion at a coal mine in southwestern China early Monday, state-run media reported.
Asia is leading the recovery of the global economy, but an overheated property market in China is a bubble waiting to pop, a leading economist said.
A handful of homegrown micro-blogging sites emerged about the same time Twitter started to gain a small, yet steadily growing, share of Chinese Internet users, beginning about 2007, around a year after Twitter was launched in the U.S. in 2006.
China should not execute a British man convicted of smuggling heroin, a top United Nations official said Thursday, days before the execution is scheduled to take place.
Five more defendants were sentenced to death for their roles in summer riots that killed around 200 people in western China, officials said Thursday.
China dismissed international criticism over the forced repatriation of 20 Uyghur asylum seekers from Cambodia to China over the weekend, calling it "unreasonable."
The appeals body of the World Trade Organisation has upheld an earlier ruling against China's restrictions on imports of US films and music, rebuffing Beijing's claim that the restrictions were necessary to protect public morals.
China has banned individuals from registering internet domain names and launched a review of millions of existing personal websites in the toughest government censorship drive so far on the internet.
Last week was meant to be America's busiest week for initial public offerings so far this year.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who has been criticized as being too soft on human rights issues, said the "pragmatic" Obama administration approach is designed to make a difference, not prove a point.
Now that Apple's iPhone is officially for sale in China, the question is, will the country's 700 million mobile phone users want to buy it?
Could China be the world's green champion? It seems unlikely. The vast nation is typically portrayed as a dire threat to the planet, with a booming population and a commitment to that dirtiest of fuels -- coal.
It happens every weekday: A group of ladies gathers at the cavernous, badly lit stock-brokerage office on Shanghai's Xiangyang Lu in what was once, when China was colonized by European powers last century, known as the French Concession. There are usually at least four, and sometimes as many as eight.
A province in northeastern China has become the first to execute convicts by injection, rather than gunshot, state-run media reported Friday.
China has reintroduced a nationwide real estate sales tax in an attempt to reduce speculation and cool the bubbling property market after price rises accelerated across the country in November.
A stampede on a school staircase in central China's Hunan province killed eight students and injured 26 others, state media reported.
A beloved giant panda will leave for China early next year to the disappointment of millions of fans in the United States.
Mountains of peanut shells are spread out across Shengchang Bioenergy's property on the outskirts of Beijing. Local farmers drive in and out, unloading dried corn stalks in exchange for a small fee.
Three more people were sentenced to death for their roles in riots that killed about 200 in western China in July, state media reported Friday.
Nine people have been executed in connection with ethnic riots last July that killed about 200 people in western China's Xinjiang region, the state-run China News Service reported Monday.
There are 1.3 billion people in China, and millions upon millions live here in the nation's industrial south.
The United Nations body in charge of managing carbon trading has suspended approvals for dozens of Chinese wind farms amid questions over the country's use of industrial policy to obtain money under the scheme.
European officials on Sunday failed to persuade Beijing to begin strengthening its currency, despite "frank" talks between top officials ahead of Monday's EU-China summit in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing.
China will launch a second lunar probe next October, state-run media reported Friday.
China could face a protectionist backlash next year because of a huge over- expansion of industrial capacity in recent months that may lead to a surge in cheap exports, a European business group said on Thursday.
China's banks are preparing to raise tens of billions of dollars in additional capital to meet regulatory requirements following an unprecedented expansion of new loans this year, according to people familiar with the matter.
Two people were executed Tuesday in China for their part in a tainted milk scandal that killed at least six babies and sickened about 300,000 others, state-run media reported.
Chinese officials blamed poor management and inadequate precautions for an explosion at a mine that killed 104 people, state-run media said Monday.
The death toll from an explosion at a northeastern China coal mine rose to 104 Monday morning, according to state-run media.
Coca-Cola, the world's largest soft drinks company, is planning to more than double its number of bottling plants in China over the coming decade as part of the group's aim to triple the size of its sales to the country's rapidly emerging middle class.
The death toll from an explosion at a northeastern China coal mine rose to 92 early Sunday, state-run media reported.
An explosion at a coal mine in northeastern China killed at least 11 workers and trapped nearly 128 underground early Saturday, state-run media reported.
When China decided to test an anti-satellite missile in 2007, the impact shattered not just the target satellite but any illusions that China did not have military intentions in space and the capabilities to achieve them.
As U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Chinese President Hu Jintao and the highest-ranking members of the Chinese Politburo, one has to wonder if he is sizing up the competition.
China and the United States, the largest producers of greenhouse gases, will team up to fight climate change and create clean energy, their leaders said Tuesday.
President Obama is in China this week meeting with that nation's leaders. Since China is the largest foreign owner of U.S. debt, I wonder if they are going to give Obama a free toaster.
Gold is different from other commodities in many ways. Still, the price of the yellow metal depends on the same three factors as oil or wheat: supply, demand, and financial conditions. Put them together, and the 20% increase since August might only be the beginning.
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