Throughout Asia, Exporters Brace for Tremors From a U.S. Pullback

Rather than waiting for the American economy to get worse, companies in Asia are changing how they operate.

Smoggy Beijing Plans to Cut Traffic by Half for Olympics, Paper Says

Beijing is planning to reduce motor traffic during the games to improve air quality and ease traffic flow.

Opinion: China’s Genocide Olympics

China’s leaders are tarnishing their own Olympiad by abetting genocide in Darfur and in effect undermining the U.N. military deployment there.

Pinched by Price Controls, Power Plants in China Scale Back

The Chinese government is trying to address an electricity shortage that has led to rationing in more than a third of the country’s provinces in recent weeks.

China on verge of power blackout as coal reserve runs short

Many parts of China are on the verge of losing power as the country's thermal coal reserve is dropping towards the warning level, the country's main electricity supplier has said, Beijing News reported today.

Ancient skull may prove Chinese not from Africa

Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a 100,000-year-old human skull fossil that may help prove Chinese people originated locally rather than as descendants of Africans.

China Offers Plan to Clean Up Its Polluted Lakes

The government has announced new regulation that will limit fish farms and require better treatment of wastewater, among other measures.

China Wonders if Its Stock Boom Is Over

A dramatic sell-off that has sent share prices here plummeting more than 10 percent over the past two days is raising fears that China’s spectacular stock market boom may be coming to an end.

Beijing to Raise Fines on Elites Who Violate the One-Child Rule

Celebrity has its perks, but in Beijing, large families are not one of them.

Bloggers Push China to Prosecute Beating Death

Bloggers have used the Internet to force Chinese officials into investigating what appears to have been a brutal beating by other government officials.

China Says Its Seafood Is Now Safer and Better

In an unusual public acknowledgment, Chinese officials said that pollution and water-quality problems had become the biggest challenges facing China’s fish farming.

Pacific Islanders’ Ancestry Emerges in Genetic Study

An international team of scientists found evidence that Polynesians and Micronesians were more closely related to East Asians, and had few links to western Pacific islanders.

America raps Taiwan over UN referendum

The United States stressed yesterday that it opposes Taiwan plans to hold a "referendum on UN membership."

India PM seeks stronger China ties

Jan. 15 - There is enough space in Asia for both countries, but the world's two most populous countries must work together says India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on visit in China.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is on a three day state visit to China, intent on warming Sino-Indian ties. But the neighbours must first break down historic wariness over China's traditional friendship with Indian rival Pakistan and growing ties with the U.S.A. and a decades-long border dispute that flared into a brief war in 1962.

India's PM Singh visits China

Jan. 14 - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh calls for more cooperation on trade with China during a meeting with business officials in Beijing.

The Indian Prime Minister arrived in Beijing on Sunday (January 13) morning to start his three-day visit to China.

After meeting with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao on Monday, he will hold talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday (January 15).

India and China's trade heads also discussed trade deficits between the two countries.

Hsieh sworn in, says DPP must unite

Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) called for solidarity as he was sworn in as party chairman yesterday.

Visiting American Admiral Confers with Chinese Generals

The four-day visit by Admiral Timothy Keating, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, followed a diplomatic spat last year.

At Auto Show, Chinese Are Sidelined but Not Ignored

While the vehicles have yet to go on sale in the United States, they stole some thunder from the Big Three at the Detroit Auto Show.

Official gets death for raping virgins

A former political adviser in Henan Province was sentenced to death for committing six crimes, including raping more than 20 virgin girls in less than two years.

Malawi Cuts Diplomatic Ties With Taiwan

The move drew a bitter response from Taiwanese officials who accused the Chinese government of luring the Malawians into its camp with money and other inducements.

Chinese and U.S. Demand Drives Commodities Surge

A global boom in the cost of commodities, the staple ingredients of a modern economy, is entering its sixth year with no end in sight.

Europe Delays Changing Rules on Cheap Goods

The move illustrates deep divisions within Europe over how to deal with the surge of Chinese exports and the job losses caused by the outsourcing of production to Asia.

Taiwan Election May Ease Tensions With China

Victory for the opposition could sharply reduce the political influence of President Chen Shui-bian, who has antagonized China and frustrated the United States.

Disney and 4 Chinese Investment Firms to Buy Stake in N.B.A.’s China Subsidiary

The group will pay about $250 million for an 11 percent stake in N.B.A. China.

Kidney ops spark fierce debate over transplants

Two recent kidney transplant operations have caused Chinese medical experts, lawmakers and ethics advocates to call for a re-examination of the country's organ transplant regulations.

Beijing efforts inspire India

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Beijing's preparations for the Olympics were an inspiration for India, which hosts the Commonwealth Games in 2010.

Thousands march for democracy in HK

Thousands marched through Hong Kong yesterday, calling for the right to elect their government by 2012 -- a date leaders in Beijing have ruled out.

Opinion: Taiwan and fear in US-China ties

Maintaining good US-China relations will be a key determinant of global stability in this century.

Election fallout: ANALYSIS: Oversight needed to check KMT power

Given the Chinese Nationalist Party's (KMT) landslide victory in Saturday's legislative poll, the public needs to form a sound mechanism of oversight to check the power of the party within the legislature, political analysts and civil societies said yesterday.

Election fallout: US stops short of congratulating KMT after election

The US on Saturday congratulated the people of Taiwan for holding successful Legislative Yuan elections, but stopped short of congratulating the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) for its victory, in a brief statement issued some hours after the results were announced in Taipei.

Taiwan nationalists win ballot

Jan. 12 - The main opposition KMT party that once ruled all of China scoops a big parliamentary majority in Taiwan's elections.

The KMT nationalist party which favours closer economic ties with Beijing scores a landslide victory over the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, the DPP.

Opposition Wins Taiwan Parliamentary Election

The opposition Kuomintang party won a landslide victory as President Chen Shui-bian resigned as chairman of the governing Democratic Progressive Party to take responsibility for the loss.

Two Giants Try to Learn to Share Asia

India’s Prime Minister will arrive in Beijing on Sunday for a three-day visit to China, with each country eager to increase bilateral trade and promote mutual friendship.

Lives of Poverty, Untouched by China’s Boom

China has moved more people out of poverty than any other country in recent decades, but places like southern Henan Province remain destitute.

Taiwan Prepares for First of 2 Major 2008 Elections

China condemns the referendum as a step toward formal separation, and the United States has called it provocative and an unnecessary step that raises tension across the Taiwan Strait.

Woman compensated for rat bite in toilet

A woman in Chongqing Municipality has received compensation of 600 yuan (US$82.53) from a public toilet owner after she was bitten by a rat on her hip when using the bathroom.

Credit Suisse Pursuing a Partnership in the Chinese Market

Credit Suisse announced Thursday that it was seeking to form a joint venture with a Chinese brokerage firm, Founder Securities.

NYSE Urges China to Be Flexible on Where Companies Raise Capital

With an economic boom in developing countries, established stock exchanges are increasingly dependent on attracting business from companies based far from their home countries.

Korean Fire Ends Migrants’ Hard Journey Home

The victims were among an estimated 300,000 ethnic Koreans from China who now live in South Korea and pursue their “Korean dream” at the lowest rung of South Korea’s labor market.

China to Freeze Energy Prices in an Effort to Quell Worries About Inflation

Under the edict, prices of oil products, natural gas and electricity will be frozen in the near term along with public water bills and transportation tickets.

Toy Makers Mount Drive to Salvage China’s Safety Reputation

Toy makers are instituting tougher quality controls in China and elsewhere to try to avoid repetition of the recalls that damaged the industry last year.

Bid for China Eastern Airline Stake Rebuffed

The snub opens the way for the parent of the nation’s largest carrier, Air China, to make an offer of its own.

Hong Kong Power Regulations Based in Part on Emissions

Hong Kong adopts a new regulatory system that could some day be a model for mainland China’s giant power industries.

1977 Exam Opened Escape Route Into China’s Elite

For a whole generation consigned to the countryside, a university entrance examination three decades ago was a chance to escape what seemed like a life sentence of tedium and hardship.

Cops learn English phrases for Olympics

Amid the citywide pre-Olympic English-language-learning craze, nearly every police officer, from new graduates to those close to retirement, is studying foreign languages and refined manners, hoping to polish the capital's image.

In Chinese Factories, Lost Fingers and Low Pay

Worker abuse is still commonplace in many of the Chinese factories that supply Western companies, according to labor rights groups.

Eased Rules on Tech Sales to China Questioned

Experts are concerned that some high-tech exports could help China modernize its military.

Taiwanese head for China

Dec. 28 - Moving politics aside, Taiwanese professionals forced out of a tough job market head to mainland China.

Thousands of professionals from Taiwan, which China considers a renegade state, flock to the mainland with hopes of earning higher wages and a having a leisurely lifestyle.