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Rising temperatures over the next few decades will unleash storms, floods and drought across China's Yangtze River Basin, a new report says, raising the prospect of catastrophe for a region that is home to nearly a third of the country's population. Complete Story...
A group of protesters pleaded for help Tuesday from President Barack Obama before his visit to China next week, saying anyone seen as a troublemaker is often treated harshly before major events in the capital.
China lashed out at the Dalai Lama's visit to a disputed border region in India on Tuesday, saying his trip to the area revealed the exiled Tibetan leader's separatist agenda.
Powered by tax cuts and stimulus spending, China's October auto sales soared 72 percent from a year earlier, outpacing U.S. sales for another month, according to data reported Monday.
China has executed nine men, including eight from the Muslim Uighur minority, for crimes committed during July riots that killed 200 people in far western Xinjiang region. The men are the first to be put to death for the country's worst ethnic violence in decades.
A Communist Party official in China has died from excessive drinking, the third such alcohol poisoning case that highlights the problems of a drinking culture connected with government and business work, an official newspaper reported Monday.
The editor-in-chief of a hard-driving Chinese magazine that tackled tough subjects such as corruption, pollution and worker's rights resigned Monday, casting doubt over prospects for greater media independence.
Nothing like a little time apart to rekindle the affections that could lead to a baby panda.
A Chinese scholar persecuted during the Cultural Revolution for smuggling a rare collection of mushrooms out of China before World War II was honored Saturday when the collection was returned more than 70 years later.
Global power company AES Corp. said Friday it is selling a 15 percent stake in itself to China's investment arm for $1.58 billion in a move to raise cash to develop projects around the world.
This remote town in the Himalayan foothills spruced up its monasteries Friday to prepare for the Dalai Lama's arrival, a trip highlighting the growing friction between China and India — two nuclear-armed giants vying for economic and political power in the region.
China criticized Washington for imposing anti-dumping duties on Chinese-made steel pipes and launched a probe Friday of imported U.S. autos, adding to trade tensions two weeks before President Barack Obama visits Beijing.
China's rapidly modernizing air force is planning a display of its new military might for its 60th anniversary, showcasing a wide-ranging technical upgrade that has boosted its capabilities, though it still lags far behind its main rival, the United States.
Thousands of people will send letters to President Barack Obama this year. Few besides Yang Zili are likely to risk jail by doing so.
A Democratic senator on Thursday called on the Obama administration to reject an expected request for federal economic stimulus money as part of a $1.5 billion West Texas wind energy project, saying it will generate Chinese, not American, jobs — a claim strongly disputed by the project's developer.
India effectively barred foreign journalists Thursday from covering a rare visit by the Dalai Lama to a Buddhist monastery close to Tibet in an apparent effort to ease Chinese anger by reducing news coverage of the trip.
A guard at an unofficial jail in the Chinese capital has pleaded guilty to raping a young detainee, an activist said Thursday, in a case that has put a spotlight on "black jails" where a growing number of people seeking justice from the government end up.
The problem is enormous. It’s estimated that as many as 100,000 homes across the country, built between 2004 and 2008, could have defective and potentially dangerous Chinese drywall.
Chinese regulators are fighting over the right to oversee "World of Warcraft," a popular online game, in a bizarre battle that has thrust bureaucratic rivalry for control of the Internet into the open.
Apple Inc.'s local partner has sold 5,000 iPhones since the smart phone's formal weekend debut in China, a lackluster start after analysts warned the company might be setting prices too high.
Zhang Yimou says his first movie in three years has shades of comedian Stephen Chow's outlandish humor and marks the first time the "Raise the Red Lantern" director shot in digital format.
China's planning agency has approved plans for a Disney theme park in Shanghai, the Walt Disney Co. said Wednesday, a major step toward setting a deal for the long awaited project.
President Barack Obama's half brother has broken his media silence to discuss his new novel — the semi-autobiographical story of an abusive parent patterned on their late father, the mostly absent figure Obama wrote about in his own memoir.
Wary of China's rapid advancements in space programs over the last decade, military commanders said Tuesday that the U.S. needs to improve its satellite presence in the Southern Hemisphere to better track launches from Asia, even as officials work to improve relations with Beijing.
China has seen a tenfold increase in syphilis cases over the past decade, as migrant workers made enough money in the country's economic boom to hire more prostitutes, a senior Chinese health official was quoted as saying Tuesday.
In China, battles over a new wall - World Blog - msnbc.comBEIJING – Twenty years after the toppling of the Berlin Wall, another "wall" is facing intense public scrutiny in China.
China executes 9 Uighurs over ethnic riotsNine Uighurs have been executed for taking part in ethnic rioting that left nearly 200 people dead in July, the official China News Service reports.
Nine executed over Xinjiang riotsChinese authorities have executed nine people who had been convicted over riots in the Xinjiang region in July, Chinese officials have said.
The 'Beijing Consensus' Won't Last by Gordon ChangThe 'Beijing Consensus' Won't Last --- The Party is just pioneering a new way to fail.
Chinese challenge to 'out of Africa' theory"The discovery of an early human fossil in southern China may challenge the commonly held idea that modern humans originated out of Africa." ...but a number of scholars are not yet convinced.
China shames prostitutes by posting naked photographs of them on the InternetOh the irony!
Bad Climate for Global Worriers - George F. WillIntelligent people agree that, absent immediate radical action regarding global warming, the human race is sunk. That is a tautology because those who do not agree are, definitionally, unintelligent.
China to auction Olympics condomsWhen the Olympics hosted by Beijing ended, a collector snapped up the 5,000 condoms left over from the 100,000 distributed free to athletes. The collection has now been put up for a one-off auction, with a starting price of one yuan ($0.15; £0.08) each.
China accused over unfair tradeThe US and European Union (EU) have filed complaints that China is unfairly limiting its raw material exports. In the trade cases filed with the World Trade Organization (WTO) the US and EU said China was giving its domestic industry access to cheap materials.
China plans for humanoid OlympicsRobots will be able to compete in familiar Olympic sports such as athletics as well as those more suited to machines such as cleaning. How long before performance enhancing drugs overwhelm the beauty of this activity? - H2
Perhaps the western presence via Bagram and other regional bases is an effort to forestall the further territorial expansion of a radicalized Islam. India does not want it and especially China fears it.
US praises China's space progress China has made dramatic improvements in its military capabilities in space, according to a senior US general. General Kevin Chilton, commander of US Strategic Command, also said the US would like more information about China's intentions.
Mickey Mouse Gets a MakeoverMickey has become more of a corporate symbol than a beloved character for recent generations of young people, Disney is taking the risky step of re-imagining him for the future.
Two-headed baby abandoned Medics are caring for an abandoned two-headed baby dumped in an irrigation ditch by his mother. Police in Hanzhuang, central China, found the hours-old infant after reports of a baby crying in the middle of the night.
Photo of naked woman in prostitute bust triggers rageA photo showing a plainclothes policeman pulling a naked woman by the hair during a prostitution bust in central China has caused outrage on the internet, where it has been widely circulated.
Millions of Chinese citizens don't know how to have sexThe first time Hu Jing tried to have sex with her college boyfriend, there was a technical difficulty. "We knew we had to use a condom," she said.
Chinese giant to buy US oil assets: companyNorwegian energy group Statoil said on Wednesday it was selling some of its oil assets in the United States to China's state-owned CNOOC, marking the first step by a Chinese energy major into the US market.
China Unicom: 5,000 iPhones sold in first weekend | Circuit Breaker - CNET NewsThe iPhone didn't get quite the reception in China as it did in other markets.
Indian Monetary Authority to buy 200 tonnes of IMF goldRBI's decision to shore up its gold reserves needs to be seen in the context of other central banks across the globe increasing their gold reserves.
iPhone goes on sale in China | Phones | iPhone Central | MacworldAt long last, citizens of the world's most populous country can buy iPhones on their own shores, as the device went on sale in China over the weekend.
Chinese Authors Object to Google's Book-ScanningA long-running dispute over Google's efforts to digitize books has spread this month to China, where authors have banded together to demand that their works be protected from what they call unauthorized copying.
China forced to examine racial prejudiceA black woman's appearance on a talent show in China has provoked a storm of abuse on the internet and a rare debate on racism in the media.
Humiliating Japan by Gordon ChangThis is no way to work with an ally, and it proves that the Obama administration treats the only major power actively planning to kill Americans better than it does a staunch ally of more than a half century.
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