Asia Society will have a live webcast of a discussion between the Economist's Beijing bureau chief, James Miles (who was the only accredited journalist to be on the scene in Lhasa during unrest there in March) and Orville Schell, Arthur
A high-level Chinese military source secretly disclosed last week that the recent earthquake in Sichuan Province caused a chain-reaction of explosions in the Sichuan mountain areas. The explosions ...
At least five people are dead following a traffic accident in east China's Fujian Province, the local government said Wednesday. A mini-bus carrying eight people plunged into a 60-meter deep river after it was hit in the rear by a
Chinese President Hu Jintao put forward a three-point proposal Wednesday for the world's major economies on the fight against climate change. Hu made the proposal when addressing the Major Economies Meeting on Energy Security and Cl ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao met Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper Wednesday in the northern Japanese resort of Toyako. The two leaders, who met on the sidelines of the outreach session of the Group of Eight (G8) summit, exchang ...
The suspected criminals that police killed and nabbed in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region on Tuesday were from a "holy war" training group, local police authorities confirmed Wednesday. Xinjiang police raided the s ...
At present, there are about 16,000 coal mines nationwide, among which aprroximately 90 percent are small coal mines, said Zhang Guobao, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on a national conference on colli ...
Chinese shares gained 3.75 percent on Wednesday, as the chance of central bank interest hike went smaller when experts estimated the inflation indicator would continue to decline in June. The benchmark Shanghai Composite Index close ...
The UK Department for International Development (DFID) confirmed that British government will continue its support to rebuild people's life in quake affected area in Sichuan, China.In a recent interview with People's Daily Online, Mr. A ...
British people are sad to see the huge disaster that Chinese people are suffering in the May 12 earthquake. What Chinese government has done to cope with the difficult situation is highly appreciated. Mr. Adrian Davis, head of North and
The death toll of China's major earthquake still stood at Tuesday's figure of 69,197 as of Wednesday noon, the State Council Information Office said in a statement on Wednesday. The number of the injured and the missing stood at 374
China saw a slowdown in auto sales growth in the first half of 2008, due largely to increasing gas prices and looming restrictions on vehicle operation for better air quality during the upcoming Beijing Olympics. China Association o ...
Chinese President Hu Jintao and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda met Wednesday in the northern Japanese resort of Toyako and exchanged views on boosting the strategic and mutually beneficial relations between the two countries. ...
The Chinese mainland is set to learn from Taiwan's post-quake rebuilding efforts to help the tourism industry in Sichuan recover more quickly and effectively after th eMay 12 disaster. Chairman of the Beijing-based Cross-Strait Tour ...
A Chinese journalist wrote a journal richly documenting what he saw and heard in Weng'an County after the riot. The journals were deleted from his blog by China's Internet censors shortly afterwards, but was somehow recovered by Zola, a citizen
The Group of Eight (G8), which serves as a coordination mechanism for leading industrialized countries, has been playing an important role in world politics and economic affairs. In recent years, thanks to China's rapid economic gro ...
The Chinese mainland's Taiwan affairs chief said in Hangzhou Wednesday that pioneering work, based on objective history review and forward-looking thinking, was hoped to explore new way to build better relations across the Taiwan Strait. ...
An influential think thank is organizing a high-profile symposium in Hangzhou on Wednesday, discussing prospects of the mainland-Taiwan relations and peaceful development across the Taiwan Strait. At the opening ceremony of the symp ...
A group wedding has been planned for 39 couples of lovers from across the Taiwan Strait in early November, organizers said in Beijing Wednesday. The couples would be selected from online applicants from across the strait, Liao Zhong ...
