China will launch a development plan in energy-saving and the new-energy vehicle industry to make the country a leader in the sector over the next 10 years, with government funding of 100 billion yuan...

Chang Liang holds aloft a poster reading "I turn myself in to the Chongqing police" at Chongqing’s Airport on Thursday. Chang and his wife are to face charges in connection with organizing a Mafia-lik...

While it’s not exactly an uprising of Middle Eastern proportions, students in Taiwan have taken to Facebook to protest new educational requirements that make mandatory the study of the Confucian class...

Beijing's taxi drivers can usually be relied on to be able to discuss almost any topic. But there's one subject that many of them would rather not talk about, especially here in China: sex. Fang Junju...

China will raise the retail prices for gasoline by 500 yuan ($76.34) per tonne and diesel by 400 yuan per tonne starting Thursday, the country's top economic planner said on Wednesday. After the imple...

The former mayor of Zhongshan, a city in south China's Guangdong Province, stood trial Wednesday for insider trading, disclosing inside information and bribery. Li Qihong, stood trial at Guangzhou Int...

China's economy is expected to grow 9.6 percent in 2011 as fixed asset investment remains a key driver, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) said in an annual report released here on Wednesday. With infla...

China's second lunar satellite, the Chang'e-2, has been safely operating for 180 days as of April 1, and has reached its six-month designed life, according to the State Administration of Science, Tech...

Two American tourists wearing ancient Chinese costumes learn to write Chinese characters on bamboo slips with brushes in the World Park in Fengtai district on Wednesday. Several foreign tourists parti...

A jobless loner who injured an American student when he detonated a homemade explosive device in Dongzhimen admitted on Wednesday that he had purposely targeted foreigners. It was initially believed L...

Beijing is seeking nongovernment capital to contribute 60 percent of the budget and may encourage it to fund the city’s subsidized housing construction, Beijing News reported Saturday. The municipal g...