China has become the world's third-largest economy, surpassing Germany and closing rapidly on Japan, according to government and World Bank figures.
China unveiled a wide-ranging plan on Wednesday including tax cuts and subsidies to boost its auto industry, one of the pillars of the world's third-largest economy.
China on Wednesday revised up the country's gross domestic product growth for 2007 to 13% from 11.9%, leapfrogging Germany in the process to become the world's third-largest economy.
China surpassed the United States in 2008 as the world's top user of the Internet, according to a government-backed research group.
A brand of imported pet food is being pulled off store shelves in China after reports of dogs being sickened by it, a company official said Tuesday.
In early January China released a list of major online portals and Web sites that it claims provide and spread pornographic or obscene content, state media reported.
China has released a blacklist of 19 major online portals and Web sites, including Google and Baidu, that it claims provide and spread pornographic or obscene content, state media reported.
Forget the "Bird's Nest" and the "Water Cube". If you're traveling to China this summer, or even if you are watching the Olympics on television, make sure you look out for a glittering new landmark structure in Beijing.
The inaugural Prix Pictet photography award has been won by Canadian Benoit Aquin for his series of images depicting desertification in China entitled "The Chinese Dust Bowl".
Washington's man in Asia, Christopher Hill, helped broker a breakthrough deal with North Korea. As pressure mounts on Pyongyang to deliver a complete nuclear declaration amid the election of a new president in Seoul, Hill discusses the landmark six-party talks, his thoughts on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and concerns over China's growing military power. Once the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, Hill walks CNN's Sohn Jie-Ae through his old haunts in Seoul and sits down for a meal with her at his favorite Korean restaurant, now something of a local landmark thanks to his patronage.
China has become the world's third-largest economy, surpassing Germany and closing rapidly on Japan, according to government and World Bank figures.
China unveiled a wide-ranging plan on Wednesday including tax cuts and subsidies to boost its auto industry, one of the pillars of the world's third-largest economy.
China on Wednesday revised up the country's gross domestic product growth for 2007 to 13% from 11.9%, leapfrogging Germany in the process to become the world's third-largest economy.
China surpassed the United States in 2008 as the world's top user of the Internet, according to a government-backed research group.
A brand of imported pet food is being pulled off store shelves in China after reports of dogs being sickened by it, a company official said Tuesday.
In early January China released a list of major online portals and Web sites that it claims provide and spread pornographic or obscene content, state media reported.
China has released a blacklist of 19 major online portals and Web sites, including Google and Baidu, that it claims provide and spread pornographic or obscene content, state media reported.
Forget the "Bird's Nest" and the "Water Cube". If you're traveling to China this summer, or even if you are watching the Olympics on television, make sure you look out for a glittering new landmark structure in Beijing.
The inaugural Prix Pictet photography award has been won by Canadian Benoit Aquin for his series of images depicting desertification in China entitled "The Chinese Dust Bowl".
Washington's man in Asia, Christopher Hill, helped broker a breakthrough deal with North Korea. As pressure mounts on Pyongyang to deliver a complete nuclear declaration amid the election of a new president in Seoul, Hill discusses the landmark six-party talks, his thoughts on North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and concerns over China's growing military power. Once the U.S. Ambassador to South Korea, Hill walks CNN's Sohn Jie-Ae through his old haunts in Seoul and sits down for a meal with her at his favorite Korean restaurant, now something of a local landmark thanks to his patronage.
At least 17 people have died from a gas leak at a steel plant in China's northern Hebei province, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported early Thursday.
Anna He is like a lot of kids about to turn 10. She plays with her brother, fights with her sister, practices piano, hates vegetables and is adapting to her new life -- adapting, because even though she's Chinese, this little girl seems far from happy about living in China.
Two Chinese destroyers and a supply ship will set sail for the Gulf of Aden on Friday to protect Chinese merchant ships from an increasing number of pirate attacks in the waters off the coast of Somalia, navy officials said Tuesday.
BEIJING (AP) -- NBA player Yi Jianlian is being investigated by a Chinese-language magazine that claims he is one of many of the country's athletes guilty of lying about their age on official documents.
China will provide 130 billion yuan ($19 billion) in financing over the next two to three years to Taiwan-based companies doing business in the mainland, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council said Monday, the latest sign of warming ties between Beijing and Taipei.
China in 1978 was stranded at a political crossroad. It was just emerging from the chaos of the Cultural Revolution and the death of Chairman Mao. Deng Xiaoping had emerged as the new leader, but Mao's dogma remained deep-rooted and seemingly immutable. In and outside the Communist Party, a debate raged: Where to, China?
China plans to send a fleet of ships to help patrol the pirate-infested waters off the Horn of Africa, Chinese media reported Thursday.
At certain times in history, great nations find themselves shaping the future of the world. For many of our most endangered wildlife species, China finds itself in that role today.
Regularly scheduled commercial flights, shipping, and mail between Taiwan and China resumed Monday for the first time since the 1949 revolution that brought the Communist Party to power on the Chinese mainland.
Six Chinese infants may have died from consuming melamine-tainted milk powder, twice the number previously reported by the government, the Ministry of Health said Monday.
Oil prices rose Wednesday after a large rate cut from China's central bank offset concerns about falling demand from a large jump in domestic stockpiles, and a series of negative economic reports.
The last time we wrote about investing in emerging markets, we took a broad look at major indexes around the globe. Readers wanted to know more, namely possible ways to enhance returns by drilling down into particular companies, regions, or industries.
Rescue workers recovered the bodies of five victims from a landslide in southern China that buried 16 buildings, state media reported Monday.
The Food and Drug Administration has begun blocking the import of milk products from China in an effort to ensure that products contaminated with melamine do not enter the U.S. market.
The Olympics giveth, melamine-tainted milk taketh away.
The price of oil fell to a 19-month low Tuesday, sliding below the psychologically important $60 level, as investors looked past China's massive economic stimulus plan to focus on weak global demand and a stronger dollar.
Oil prices rose Monday afternoon, after a stimulus package announcement by the Chinese government raised speculation about increased demand.
Global stock markets rallied Monday after China unveiled a $586 billion stimulus package that investors hoped would help the world economy stave off a deep recession.
A 6.5-magnitude earthquake shook western China's Qinghai province Monday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The Director of Hanwei Eggs was contrite. "We solemnly apologize to consumers," said Han Wei. "We apologize to the distributors. We solemnly declare that our company has never purchased melamine. We have never adopted melamine to the feeds or products." But somehow melamine got into eggs produced at the company's plant in Dailin in northeast China.
Cross-strait relations took a historic turn this week as Taiwan and China shook hands in their first diplomatic meeting in 60 years
Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou met Thursday with the most senior Chinese official to visit the island in nearly 60 years, state-run media reported.
Modern science may have unraveled a mystery about the death of one of China's last emperors.
At least 35 people have died by landslides in southwestern China, state-run media reported Tuesday.
Landslides in southwestern China killed at least 20 people over the weekend, state-run media reported Monday.
Still reeling from news of melamine-tainted eggs and dairy, China launched a massive inspection into animal feed manufacturers -- seizing more than 3,500 tons of tainted feed, state-run media reported Sunday.
Animal feed makers deliberately added an industrial chemical to their products, ignoring a year-old government rule meant to protect China's food supply
China's leaders are losing sleep over the millions of jobs that could be lost in coming months
Venezuela's first satellite roared into space Thursday from a launching pad in southwest China.
Health authorities in Hong Kong have found more eggs contaminated with the chemical melamine.
A brand of eggs is being pulled off some shelves in China because of fears they are tainted with the same industrial chemical found in milk that sickened tens of thousands of babies
Decades of extraordinary growth have catapulted China to the top of the world's economic charts, earning the admiration of much of the rest of the world.
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Are emerging markets a bargain right now? The instinct is right, as developing-country indexes have taken a serious thumping this year. Year-to-date, Argentina's main index is down 51%. China's is down 63%. Russia is down 68%. Overall, the MSvCI Emerging Markets index is down 52% year-to-date, versus *just* a 34% drop for the S&P 500.
The world's hottest major economy is headed for harder times as its export and property sectors sag
An unmanned mission to the moon boosts India's chances of beating China in the race to land an astronaut there
The United States has sneezed. And while it may be too strong to say that China has now caught a cold, it has, at the very least, come down with a bit of a runny nose.
Hand, foot and mouth disease has killed three children and sickened about 110 others in eastern China, state media reported
Pakistan said Saturday that China will help it build two more nuclear power plants
The visit by Pakistan's President to China results in a raft of agreements. Are the two countries sending a message to historical rivals -- the U.S. and India?
Factory Girls takes an inside look at the lives of the legions of overwhelmingly young, female migrant workers who drive China's economy
China may be deeply enmeshed in the global economy, but the country's leaders are unlikely to take a direct role in solving a financial crisis Beijing believes was made in America
More than 10,000 children remained hospitalized after being sickened in China's tainted milk scandal, eight of whom were in serious condition, officials said
Lawyers advising the families of children sickened in China's tainted milk scandal said Tuesday they are facing growing official pressure to withdraw from the cases
More than a hundred villagers in southern China have been poisoned by after drinking water apparently contaminated with arsenic, official Xinhua News Agency said Tuesday
In spite of the global financial mess, Beijing still wants to make its markets more like the West's
China has abruptly canceled a series of military and diplomatic contacts with the United States to protest a planned $6.5 billion package of U.S. arms sale to Taiwan, American officials told The Associated Press on Monday
China opened the 29th Olympic Games on Friday with stunning fireworks as the Asian nation kicked off one of the most heavily scrutinized games in history.
Hong Kong authorities Sunday announced that two recalled candy products made by British confectioner Cadbury had high levels of melamine.
Everyone needs some chicken soup for the soul -- even pandas
Fifteen more Chinese dairy companies were identified Wednesday as producing milk products contaminated with an industrial chemical, further broadening a scandal affecting products ranging from baby formula to chocolate, authorities said
Unilever is recalling four batches of Lipton Milk Tea sold in Hong Kong and Macau after finding traces of the chemical melamine in the product, the company said Tuesday.
British candy maker Cadbury said Monday it is recalling 11 types of Chinese-made chocolates found to contain melamine, as police in northern China raided a network accused of adding the banned chemical to milk
Three Chinese astronauts returned to Earth Sunday, completing a three-day mission that included China's first-ever spacewalk.
A Chinese astronaut has completed his country's first-ever spacewalk as part of an ambitious program that is starting to rival the United States and Russia in its rapid expansion.
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A Japanese food corporation has recalled five products after determining they contained the chemical melamine that has been blamed for the deaths of four children and sickening thousands of others.
The country's impoverished farmers are the latest casualties as China's dairy sales plummet
China on Thursday successfully launched a three-man crew into space where one of them will make the country's first spacewalk, the country's most challenging space mission since first launching a person into space in 2003.
A typhoon that smashed into southern China closed schools, canceled flights and killed at least 10 people, state-run media reported.
A Chinese Shenzhou-7 spaceship is scheduled to lift off Thursday evening on the nation's third manned space mission.
The fallout from a tainted milk scandal in China continues to spread around the globe, with tainted crackers found in South Korea, two more illnesses reported in Hong Kong and a grocery chain in Great Britain pulling Chinese products.
The head of China's quality watchdog is reported to have resigned over the tainted baby milk scandal that has killed four children and sickened nearly 53,000 others.
The annual guessing game about who will get the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize focused this year on a possible human rights rebuke for China
Forty three years after the Soviet Union pulled it off, China gets ready to send its own man on a spacewalk -- and show the world it can do more than throw a good party
A typhoon that killed eight people in the Philippines smashed into southern China on Wednesday.
China's Olympic adventure may be over, but new age chanteuse Sa Dingding is one global export that in many ways echoes the Beijing Olympic fantasy of "One World. One Dream."
African governments have stopped importing Chinese dairy products as the crisis which has seen more than 52,000 Chinese children poisoned by melamine-tainted goods spreads.
With thousands of babies sickened by tainted-milk products, Beijing officials apologize. But after a month of bad accidents, some say it's time for action -- not more words
The stock price of a company at the center of China's tainted milk product scandal plunged as more countries expanded bans on Chinese milk products
China this week launches its most ambitious space mission yet, a sign of rising confidence as Beijing cements its status as a space power and potential future competitor to the United States
The head of China's food safety watchdog resigned Monday in the wake of the tainted baby formula scandal that has sickened nearly 53,000 infants, state media reported
At least 56 people have been killed in two mine disasters in China this weekend.
The number of children sickened by suspected melamine-tainted milk products in China has more than doubled and apparently spread beyond mainland China -- raising fears that the impact of the tainted products could be more widespread that initially thought.
Authorities have detained 13 people after a nightclub fire in southern China killed 43 and injured 88, state media said Monday.
China's food safety crisis widened Friday after the industrial chemical melamine was found in milk produced by three of the country's leading dairy companies
Milk product samples from three Chinese dairies have tested positive for a chemical that has already killed four babies and sickened thousands more after it was fed to them in powdered infant formula, state-run media reported Thursday.
As the scandal continued to widen, hundreds of anxious parents lined up at Beijing's Children's Hospital to have their babies examined for possible kidney stones
Chinese officials in the northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region reported the death of a fourth baby Thursday in the country's expanding contaminated infant formula case. The tainted milk powder has already sickened more than 6,200 babies.
More than a 1,000 parents anxious over tainted milk powder on Thursday rushed their infants to hospitals for health checks as the government announced that a fourth baby had died in the spreading scandal
A third baby has died and at least 6,200 children have fallen ill after drinking formula tainted with the same chemical involved in a massive pet food recall last year, Chinese officials said Wednesday.
Two brothers who sold fresh milk used to produce contaminated baby milk powder were arrested by Chinese investigators Monday and could face death if convicted, according to China Daily, the state-run newspaper.
Food safety officials come under intense scrutiny as the number of infants sickened by a batch of tainted milk powder has expanded
Officials on Monday announced the death of a second child who consumed contaminated milk powder. More than 1,200 others have been sickened, according to China's Health Ministry.
Chinese police arrested two brothers suspected of adding a dangerous chemical to milk they sold to a company that produced infant formula that killed two babies and sickened more than 1,200 others
The governor of Shanxi Province in northern China resigned Sunday in the wake of a mud and rock slide that has killed at least 254 people, state-run media reported.
Tainted baby formula has sickened at least 50 Chinese infants, resulting in one death and prompting a nationwide investigation, according to China's state-run news agency.
China's food safety watchdog sent inspectors to the country's main dairy producing regions on Sunday after at least 432 babies were sickened by tainted milk powder
The death toll from a mud and rock slide that occured at an unlicensed mine last week in northern China has risen to 254 as rescue workers continue to recover more bodies, state-run media said Sunday.
A Chinese dairy that sold milk powder linked to kidney stones in infants knew it contained a banned chemical weeks before ordering a recall, the health minister said Saturday
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