The former chief of China's civilian and military nuclear programs was sentence to life in prison on Friday for accepting at least $1 million in bribes, state media said. Kang Rixin, 57, also lost his...

China is ramping up production of unmanned aerial vehicles in an apparent bid to catch up with the U.S. and Israel in developing technology that is considered the future of military aviation. Western...

China's longest subway, stretching 50 kilometers running southwest to northwest of Beijing, will begin its trial run by the end of 2010, sources with the subway company said Wednesday. The new Line 4...

The capital's taxi drivers come in all shapes and sizes but imagine hailing a cab and being greeted by a foreign driver. It's something that could happen after Perry Knoppert gets behind the wheel. Th...

Minor scuffles erupted outside Apple's flagship store in Beijing during the weekend as thousands of customers lined up to purchase the hotly anticipated iPhone 4. Some would-be buyers waited all night...

Beijing's sixth census shows that the expatriate community in Beijing has remained stable at 110,000, census officials said on Wednesday. Gu Yanzhou, deputy director of the Beijing sixth population ce...

China's yuan should be "immediately" included in the special drawing rights (SDR) basket of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), a top Chinese banker said on Tuesday, adding that the greater status...

China's massive steel sector produced 2 percent more crude steel in the first 10 days of November than in late October, data from the China Iron & Steel Association (CISA) showed on Thursday. The coun...

Huawei Technologies Co, China's biggest telecommunications-equipment maker, forecast it will beat Ericsson AB to become the top producer of gear for the next generation of mobile-phone networks. "We h...

Despite a federal commission report that criticizes China for its "highly discriminatory" economic practices, many US companies said in a survey that they are committed to doing business in China. But...

China's gold consumption is set to rise by about four percent from a year earlier to 430 tons this year, said a senior executive of China National Gold Corp, one of the country's largest gold producer...

The State Council, China's Cabinet, is drafting a slew of measures to suppress rising commodity prices, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Wednesday. The measures include boosting food supplies and other nece...