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China dominated the world team table tennis championships, living up to its top billing on Sunday in the tournament seen as a preview of this summer's Beijing Olympics.
China may consider changing its one-child policy because it has helped slow population growth over the last three decades
China's largest producer of plastic bags said Tuesday it has closed more than a month after the government announced a high-profile ban on stores handing out free bags in an effort to clean up the environment.
Pingpong helped thaw relations between China and the United States more than three decades ago. Now the catalyst of that thaw wonders whether music can do the same for the U.S. and North Korea.
New Zealand will sign a free trade agreement with China in early April, the government announced Tuesday -- the first such deal between the Asian economic powerhouse and a developed economy.
A look at some key cultural exchanges:
China has agreed to a long-standing U.S. request for access to military records that the Pentagon believes might resolve the caes of U.S. servicemen missing from the Korean War
Exports of roast eel to South Korea that was recalled by authorities came from an illegal exporter, China's quality watchdog said Friday.
SpongeBob SquarePants, Mickey Mouse and Pokemon are officially persona non grata on Chinese prime time.
Steven Spielberg's decision to withdraw from his position as an artistic director for this summer's Beijing Olympics over the country's policies in Darfur is drawing fire from China's state-controlled media and its public, reports the Associated Press.
China dominated the world team table tennis championships, living up to its top billing on Sunday in the tournament seen as a preview of this summer's Beijing Olympics.
China may consider changing its one-child policy because it has helped slow population growth over the last three decades
China's largest producer of plastic bags said Tuesday it has closed more than a month after the government announced a high-profile ban on stores handing out free bags in an effort to clean up the environment.
Pingpong helped thaw relations between China and the United States more than three decades ago. Now the catalyst of that thaw wonders whether music can do the same for the U.S. and North Korea.
New Zealand will sign a free trade agreement with China in early April, the government announced Tuesday -- the first such deal between the Asian economic powerhouse and a developed economy.
A look at some key cultural exchanges:
China has agreed to a long-standing U.S. request for access to military records that the Pentagon believes might resolve the caes of U.S. servicemen missing from the Korean War
Exports of roast eel to South Korea that was recalled by authorities came from an illegal exporter, China's quality watchdog said Friday.
SpongeBob SquarePants, Mickey Mouse and Pokemon are officially persona non grata on Chinese prime time.
Steven Spielberg's decision to withdraw from his position as an artistic director for this summer's Beijing Olympics over the country's policies in Darfur is drawing fire from China's state-controlled media and its public, reports the Associated Press.
China's inflation rose to its highest level in more than 11 years in January after devastating snowstorms worsened food shortages, according to data reported Tuesday, and analysts warned there might be sharper increases to come.
China's consumer prices hit another 11-year high in January, stoking fears the country could start exporting inflation and signaling an end to the days of ultra-cheap Chinese goods.
China's inflation accelerated in January to 7.1 percent -- its highest rate in 12 years -- after devastating snowstorms worsened food shortages, setting back government efforts to cool rising prices, according to data reported Tuesday.
An explosion at an illegal mine disguised as a wild boar farm killed 24 people, a Chinese government news agency reported Tuesday.
Singapore Airlines said Monday it has no plans to renew its unsuccessful bid for China Eastern Airlines, but is focusing on a potential global economic slowdown that could impact air traffic.
Negotiations on a new treaty to fight global warming will fail if rich nations are not treated as "culprits" and developing countries as "victims," China's top climate envoy said.
True or False: China, India and other developing countries are exempt from the Kyoto Protocol
China's trade surplus grew by 22.7% in January over the same month last year as foreign demand for exports stayed strong despite worries about slowing global growth, according to data reported Friday.
The managing director of the international monetary Fund said Friday he is urging China to ease exchange rate controls to help address global financial imbalances and its own economic challenges.
China will spend more than $1.25 billion to rebuild wrecked houses, restore farms and help the poor pay for food and heat in areas where snowstorms killed at least 107 people, the government said Thursday.
Firing a missile to destroy a stricken space vehicle averts potential risk to people -- and eliminates any danger of its falling into the wrong hands
Emergency crews rushed to restore electricity to parts of southern China damaged by unusually heavy snows, and forecasters said Friday that new storms could lash the area next week.
A Hong Kong journalist charged with spying for Taiwan was released from prison in mainland China on Tuesday after being detained for nearly three years.
China has eased new Internet controls that had limited video-sharing to state companies, saying private competitors already operating in the fast-growing arena may continue.
The wild population of all tigers -- including Bengal, Sumatran, Siberian and Indochinese tigers -- stands at a maximum of 7,000 and a minimum of 5,000, according to figures from the World Wildlife Fund.
Monday brought welcome relief to millions of Chinese migrant workers desperate to see their families, as the nation's transportation system seemed to be getting back on its feet after being paralyzed by a historic winter storm.
Some critics are convinced that any tax rebate checks from Congress will go straight to China if Americans take the extra money and splurge at the mall.
With the weather showing little sign of improving, thousands of Chinese remain stranded and many are without power
Heavy fog fell over parts of central China Sunday, further clogging a transport system already paralyzed by weeks of snow, a day after a stampede by frustrated train passengers stranded for days in southern China killed one.
In the crowds still stranded by snow at train stations around China stand some of the country's most valuable economic assets: migrant workers.
Dear FSB: My two partners and I own and operate our own factories in China. With the anti-China trend these days, how do we find companies that are looking to go overseas but do not have a trusted partner? We hold ourselves to U.S. and European standards, but we're still having to search for businesses to whom we can provide our contract manufacturing services.
China has taken the step of asking millions of migrant workers to forgo their annual Lunar New Year trip home, saying the worst winter weather in 50 years is expected to pummel the country for at least another three days.
China advised millions of migrant workers to abandon their annual Lunar New Year trip home, saying the worst winter weather in 50 years is expected to pummel the country for at least another three days.
China's worst winter in more than half a century showed no signs of abating Wednesday as forecasters warned of three more days of snow and sleet.
Beijing and the Olympics are going Kosher.
At least 25 people were killed when a bus plunged off an icy road in China Tuesday, as the worst winter weather in half a century threw the peak travel season into chaos and led to an emergency meeting of the Communist Party Politburo.
Chinese workers and army soldiers were racing to sweep snow-covered highways and unclog railway routes for millions of travelers trapped by cold weather.
The Chinese government is bracing itself for a rush of people wishing to marry when the summer Olympics kick off on August 8 -- because the number carries a special significance in Chinese culture, the state news agency said Sunday.
A high-speed train ran into a railroad work site in China this week, killing 18 people and injuring nine, the Chinese news agency reported Friday.
Analysis: Business is booming between the two Asian juggernauts, but decades of geopolitical hostility remain unresolved
Authorities have fired an official in central China after city inspectors beat to death a man who filmed their confrontation with villagers, China's Xinhua news agency reports.
China's trade surplus soared nearly 50 percent in 2007 to a record, despite safety worries about Chinese products and a slowdown in export growth late in the year, according to government data released Friday.
China is banning free plastic bags common at shops and supermarkets and ordering customers to be charged for any they use, the government said Wednesday.
This is the China century," says Jim Rogers, standing amid moving boxes in his opulent Manhattan townhouse. "It's time for them to rule the roost." In fact, the 65-year-old former investment partner of George Soros and globe-circling author of Investment Biker is such a believer in the capitalist momentum of the People's Republic that he recently agreed to sell his beloved home and relocate full-time to Singapore - not quite Shanghai, but close enough to the action. It's something he's been considering at least since 2004, when Fortune last wrote about his remarkable prescience in championing a China-driven, worldwide commodities boom. His new book, A Bull in China: Investing Profitably in the World's Greatest Market (Random House, $26.95), is a how-to guide for investors interested in following him to the Far East. Fortune interrupted his packing for a chat about China, commodities, and the teetering U.S. economy.
The use of lethal injection will be expanded in China to replace execution by shooting, a senior legal official said in an interview with a government-owned Chinese newspaper.
The first joint army exercise between neighbors whose relationship is traditionally tense signals the redrawing of Asia's geopolitical map. Still, many sources of tension remain
The mainland's largest Bible printer has run off 50 million copies, as the number of believers surges. But freedom of religion is lagging far behind
At least 21 people died in eastern China's Zhejiang province early Wednesday when a 28-story apartment building caught fire, rescuers said, according to China's Xinhua news service.
China said Friday it will not consider mandatory cuts on greenhouse gases, saying the United States and other industrialized countries should take the lead
Rescue teams on Friday recovered more bodies following a powerful gas explosion at the Xinyao Coal Mine in northern China's Shanxi province, bringing the death toll 105, according to China's state-run Xinhua news agency.
A powerful gas explosion at a coal mine in northern China's Shanxi province killed at least 46 people and left at least 50 others trapped early Thursday, local safety officials said, according to China's Xinhua news agency.
So you're lousy with petrocash or other export-driven windfalls, and itching to put your depreciating dollars to work. Where to start? Here's Fortune's handy tip sheet:
A new report admits the country has fallen short on goals and proposes more money be spent on cleaning up the environment. But it's far from enough to make a difference
When China's lunar orbiter blasted off last month, there was not a cheer or smile or a "whoo-haaa" to be had in mission control.
China has signed an €11.7 billion ($17.4 billion) deal for 160 commercial planes from Airbus, a spokeswoman for the European aerospace giant has told CNN.
A landslide on a mountainside in central China earlier this week buried a bus carrying as many as 27 people, police told CNN on Friday.
Initial reports from China's quality control watchdog have confirmed U.S. findings that exports of Aqua Dots toys were contaminated with a toxic chemical that turns into a powerful "date rape" drug if swallowed, according to state-run Xinhua news agency.
China's government has suspended exports of toys covered with a toxic chemical that have been subject to recalls in many countries after sickening children, the state-run Xinhua News Agency reported.
MME goes to Beijing this week to find out if the fabled Silk Route is making a comeback. We'll explore the growing business ties between China and the Middle East and try to understand why this relationship is strategic and lucrative for both parties.
CO2 emissions and pollution are just two of the accusatory fingers pointed at the world's favorite form of transport: the car.
Chinese consumers are facing widespread gas shortages as a result of rising global oil prices and government regulation
Here are some facts from tonight's broadcast that you might find interesting: China Sweatshops 8,000 toy factories in Communist China. 670 certified by International Council of Toy Industries. 1-3 million workers in toy factories in China (Intl. Council of Toy Industries) Average Chinese Salary: $0.53/hour $1,114.06/year Source: National Labor Committee U.S. Wildfires Average acres burned per year 2000-October 21, 2007: 7.1 million 1960-1999 3.5 million Source: National Interagency Fire Center
Liangqiao, a small collection of huts and farms in southern China, is known as a cancer village.
The proliferation of coal-burning power plants around the world may pose "the single greatest challenge" to averting dangerous climate change, an international panel of scientists have reported.
Three aging members of the nine-member committee that rules China are retiring and their replacements will be selected by the Communist Party's central committee on Monday.
Hong Kong has weathered much in the past 10 years: the Asian financial crisis, SARS, growing pollution woes and continuing questions about democracy.
A round-up of the stories that made the news in the past week.
As the country continues to prepare for the Olympics, a Congressional report finds that human-rights abuses in China continue
Senior officials in Beijing are now grumbling that the megaproject on the Yangtze is turning into an environmental nightmare
Global warming or national security - which is the more pressing energy issue? We want to hear your views. Send us your thoughts and comments, and we'll publish the best here.
True or false: The U.S produces 80% of the world's solar-powered hot water.
China has raised mortgage interest rates and increased the downpayment needed for loans to finance purchases of second homes in a move aimed at countering property speculation that is driving up prices.
Chinese stocks surged to a record high close Friday as subscription funds from coal miner Shenhua Energy's initial public offering returned to the market, further fueling a pre-holiday rally.
A government fund that is to invest part of China's $1.3 trillion in foreign currency reserves is due to be officially launched Saturday, according to news reports.
By the year 2050, China will no longer be the most populous country in the world.
The World Trade Organization opened a formal investigation Tuesday into allegations China is providing a safe haven for product piracy and counterfeiting, the most far-reaching of four trade disputes between Washington and Beijing, trade officials said.
Noble Group was founded in Hong Kong in 1987 by CEO Richard Elman. This year marks the company's 20th Anniversary.
Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways said Monday that it will not seek to buy a stake in China Eastern Airlines, bowing out of a bidding battle with Singapore Airlines.
China has recalled two tainted leukemia drugs tied to "adverse reactions" in patients, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Sunday.
China raised interest rates Friday for a fifth time this year in a bid to curb rising inflation amid signs previous efforts to cool the sizzling economy were having little effect.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Tuesday an agreement with Chinese officials aimed at stopping the use of lead paint on Chinese-made toys that are exported to the United States.
The gap between imports and exports narrowed slightly in July despite a jump in imports from China, an increase that made that nation the No. 1 source of U.S. imports.
Here are some facts from tonight's program.
China's inflation rate rose to 6.5 percent in August - the highest in more than a decade - driven in part by a 49 percent surge in the politically sensitive price of pork and other meat from the same month a year ago, the government reported Tuesday.
Every trip to China is a revelation. From the moment I got off the jet from Beijing at Dalian Airport to attend the new World Economic Forum summer meeting, I was wowed.
China on Thursday raised the amount of money that its banks must hold in reserve for the seventh time this year, reducing the amount available for lending in an effort to cool an investment boom.
The U.S. and allied navies conduct war games off India. But some of the participants are hoping Beijing won't notice
China on Tuesday denied a report that its military had hacked into Pentagon computers, saying the allegations were "groundless" and that Beijing was opposed to cybercrime.
China's environmental watchdog has closed down 400 factories since it started a national campaign in July to tackle water pollution, an official said Tuesday.
China has arrested an activist who gathered 10,000 signatures on an open letter rejecting the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics and demanding more respect for human rights, a watchdog organization said Tuesday.
For nearly three decades, Chinese peasants have left their villages for crowded dormitories and sweaty assembly lines, churning out goods for world markets. Now, China is turning the tables.
China's first nationwide recall system for unsafe food and toys came into effect Friday in one of the strongest steps taken by Beijing to clean up the country's scandal-hit manufacturing industry.
Claims that China's military development is a threat are "totally groundless," Beijing's defense chief said in Tokyo on Thursday while assuring his Japanese hosts that China is becoming more open about its defense spending.
A white dolphin native to China's Yangtze River that scientists declared extinct last year has possibly been spotted swimming in the wild, offering a small shred of hope for its revival
30 years after China decreed a general limit of one child per family, resentment still brews over the state's sometimes brutal intrusion into intimate family matters
China has sent a notice to the World Health Organization defending its food safety standards and repeating what is becoming a standard line that more than 99 percent of its food exports are up to standard.
Police in China's capital said Tuesday they will start patrolling the Web using animated beat officers that warn users to stay away from illegal Internet content
A rush of listings on the Hong Kong and Shanghai exchanges added a dozen newcomers to Fortune's annual list of China's 100 largest publicly traded companies. One of them had the largest share offering in the world: Industrial & Commercial Bank of China, which raised $21.9 billion last October. As China's biggest bank by revenue and Asia's most profitable bank, with profits of $6.2 billion last year, it grabbed the No. 4 spot on this year's list.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged China on Monday to do more to halt climate change, prompting the response that the developed West has been polluting the skies for much longer than the newly developing Chinese.
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