North Korean leader Kim Jong-il toured the eastern Chinese city of Yangzhou Monday during his third visit to China in a year. Kim was scheduled to visit Slender West Lake, Yangzhou’s main tourist attraction, Monday…
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May 25, Consumer goods producer Unilever NV raised prices of some products in the same month that it was hit by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) with a fine of RMB 2 million…
BEIJING, May 19 — China’s preservation of its cultural relics has come under fire by the public in the wake of a recent theft at a museum in Beijing’s Forbidden City and other misappropriations of…
The English geographer Sir Halford Mackinder ended his 1904 article The Geographical Pivot of History with a provocative reference to China: should they expand their power well beyond their borders, “might constitute the yellow…
China will be experiencing an explosion in its population of senior citizens over the next 20 years; they are the progeny of the pre-family planning era. In 2010, about 115 million people in China…
New express bus saves time, but motorists say roads affected Passengers who rode the new non-stop bus from Tongzhou district to downtown Beijing shaved 10 minutes off their commute on Tuesday, according to transport managers….
BEIJING – A building on the campus of Tsinghua University, one of China’s elite colleges, took on the name of a popular clothing company on Monday, giving rise to much debate among students. Workers on…
BEIJING — Chinese courts were told on Tuesday to pronounce a two-year suspension of execution for condemned criminals if an immediate execution is not deemed necessary. The Supreme People’s Court (SPC) said, in an annual…
A leading charity organization has moved to stop around $1.3 billion in disease control funding from going to a Chinese agency, blaming the recipient of mishandling the money and of a lack of transparency. The…
Financially crippled coal plants are shutting down their generators, even though the country is facing one of its most severe power shortages ever, which could hamper the 12th Five- Year Plan starting this year. Some…