Beijing Confirms Deaths of 6 Workers at Olympic Construction Sites

Officials said that six workers had died and four others had suffered injuries at Olympic venues since construction for the 2008 games began five years ago.

China Now Pays Troops Involved in Nuclear Tests

As part of its effort to improve benefits for veterans, the government has started offering subsidies to veterans of nuclear tests last year.

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.