The worst performing group on the Shanghai Composite Index this year are China’s property developers, and BNP Paribas says to expect the correction in Chinese real estate prices due to lending curbs a...

After a week of alarming news from the Korean peninsula, we have arrived at the only thinkable conclusion: Talks and more proposed talks, with China playing the role of broker. This may be cause for s...

China wrapped up the Asian Games with a record 199 gold medals, more than double its nearest rival, but team leaders won't relax preparations for the 2012 London Olympics. The Chinese appear driven to...

If you thought His Holiness the Dalai Lama was 100% Tibetan, think again. “I am a son of India,” he declared during questions after his appearance at the Hindustan Times Leadership Summit in New Delhi...

No city is immune from tragedy. But in the wake of a heart-wrenching apartment fire in Shanghai this week, which killed at least 58 people and injured well over 100, public anger is smoldering. Shangh...

China again tried to drain cash from its banking system, increasing banks' reserve requirements for a second time in as many weeks in its intensifying push to rein in inflation. The Friday move by the...

China's government-backed Catholic church ordained a bishop who did not have the pope's approval Saturday, despite objections from the Vatican and comments by a key papal adviser that the move was ``i...

"We are the masters now." I wonder if President Barack Obama saw those words in the thought bubble over the head of his Chinese counterpart, Hu Jintao, at the G20 summit in Seoul last week. If the pre...

China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), China's largest oil refiner, said Friday it has suspended diesel exports to relieve shortages in the domestic market. Sinopec also said it is seekin...

Sales of Chinese welfare lottery tickets this year have set a record. According to the Welfare Lottery Distribution and Management Center (WLDMC), sales of the tickets until November 9 increased 26 pe...

Anthropologists are looking into the possibility that some European-looking Chinese in Northwest China are the descendants of a lost army from the Roman Empire. Experts at the newly established Italia...

China's property prices are likely to decline almost 20 percent next year starting from March or April, according to a report issued by the Beijing-based Renmin University of China (RUC). Developers'...