The World Trade Organization condemned European Union antidumping tariffs on imports of Chinese screws, handing Beijing its biggest legal victory yet at the Geneva-based body. EU officials described t...

China will shift to a "prudent" monetary policy next year, the ruling Communist Party decided on Friday, a move that formalizes the government's change in priorities away from driving all-out economic...

An explosion caused by illegally stored chemicals has killed seven people and injured 37 at an Internet cafe in southwest China, state media and the government said Sunday. The blast occurred late Sat...

Rare earth (RE) metals find application in a massive range of devices including wind turbines, hybrid and electric cars, LCDs, fuel cells, nuclear reactors and lasers. China controls some 97% of the w...

A surge in Chinese prices that has rattled financial markets may be poised to ease as weather improves and the economy returns to more normal growth following a period of extra stimulus following the...

A mad rush to the playground turned into a stampede that left dozens of elementary school children injured in western China on Monday, state media and officials said. Students at the No. 5 Elementary...

China has expressed frustration with North Korea, with one official calling it a "spoiled child," at the same time as brushing off U.S. requests to choke off the flow of military technology from Pyong...

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange doesn’t think much of the activists planning a Chinese version of WikiLeaks, blasting them with the kind of vitriol often reserved for him by critics of his document d...

It has been widely reported that 2010 is the year that China passed Japan to become the second largest “country” economy in the world. Less reported, however, is a more important fact: 2010 or thereab...

Air quality in Shanghai has plummeted since the World Expo left town, sliding from “excellent” to “polluted” and now—with levels of airborne particulates up to three times beyond what the government c...

China's current-account surplus in the third quarter more than doubled from a year earlier, its foreign-exchange regulator said Thursday, indicating the country still faces challenges in rebalancing t...

China on Sunday proposed emergency discussions among delegates to the six-party talks to discuss "complicated factors" on the Korean peninsula, as the U.S. and South Korea started a naval drill that h...