Nissan-Dongfeng to invest 50b yuan

BEIJING – Nissan Motor Co’s joint venture with Dongfeng Motor (Group) Co, the largest Sino-foreign auto partnership, on Monday announced in Beijing that it plans to invest billions of US dollars and double its annual…

Home away from home investment

Faced with a slowdown in the nation’s real estate sector, some cash-rich Chinese are looking overseas for bargains, reports Zhou Yan in Kuala Lumpur. Back at the height of China’s property boom in 2009, Qiu…

Heavy rainfall darkens city, ravages land, farms, homes

Thunderstorms have been battering Chongqing,  damaging homes and farmland, cutting power supplies, and affecting about 275,000 people since Thursday. More than 1,500 houses in the southwestern China municipality have been damaged by the continuous storms…

China launches 9th orbiter for global navigation

XICHANG, Sichuan – China successfully launched an orbiter into space at 5:44 am Beijing Time Wednesday, as a part of its indigenous satellite navigation and positioning network known as Beidou, or Compass system, sources with…

Compounds breeding dirty man-made pools

The Shanghai Oasis Ecological Conservation and Communication Center is calling on residential property management companies to establish reliable purification systems at man-made ponds, after discovering that more than half of such recently developed facilities are…

China, Japan resume defense dialogue

BEIJING – China and Japan agreed to maintain stability in the East China Sea and promote the early establishment of a maritime liaison system, as the two sides resumed their bilateral vice-ministerial defense dialogue on…

Dangerous US behavior

There have been reports that two Chinese fighter jets recently intercepted a US U-2 spy plane over the Taiwan Straits. When asked to comment on the incident, US Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint…