A leading Chinese power company has promised that the world's highest hydropower station in Tibet will not reduce water flows downstream on the Yarlung Zangbo River. Damming of the river began on Nove...

A Shanghai high-rise apartment fire that killed 53 people was completely avoidable, Chinese top labor safety official said, blaming lax supervision and illegal work practices. Luo Lin, head of the Sta...

Updated on 16 th Nov. 2010: C919 get 100 planes contract COMAC, AirChina, China Eastern Airlines, China Southern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, CDB Leasing and GECAS signed 100-plane contract in the first...

Updated at 15:30 16 th Nov 2010: Shanghai apartment building fire took 53 lives till now. A rescue operation was underway on Monday after a 28-story residential building was engulfed in flames in Shan...

IN a private room in a mysterious little restaurant in Chengdu, my fellow diners goaded me to eat the turtle. It was soft-shelled, they said — as if that made it more enticing. They laughed and joked...

The leaders of China and Japan held their first formal talks on Saturday since clashing two months ago over disputed islands, in what appeared to be a hastily arranged attempt to patch up differences...

U.S. President Barack Obama visited Indonesia with a U.S. business delegation last week. How successful was the trip for U.S. companies? How will the visit affect commercial relations between China an...

Apple’s carrier partner in China, China Unicom, was hoping its deal to carry the iPhone would help it lure customers away from rival China Mobile, but many China Mobile users resisted the switch, choo...

China Unicom has launched a long-expected application store for users to download apps like games and Internet browsers to their mobile devices, making it the latest mobile carrier looking to reproduc...

Within 10 years, China’s entertainment industry has the potential to create more new wealth than any other industry in the country. At least, that’s what Rupert Hoogewerf, publisher of the Hurun Rich...

A Catholic priest’s willingness to speak his mind about Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong business leader who is one of the city’s biggest real-estate developers, has prompted meetings with a representative...

Mention Guangzhou to the Chinese and they instinctively think of two things: food and money. As the capital of the Guandong province, the city is the hub of the Cantonese cuisine and so, naturally, th...