Energy giant PetroChina Co Ltd has pulled out of a $40 billion deal to buy natural gas from a project off Australia, but Chinese analysts and officials Tuesday tried to play down the impact on the Chi...

At least 51 children in East China's Jiangsu province were found to have excessive levels of lead in their blood, the latest lead poisoning scandal after a string of such cases last year, sounding new...

A 50-year-old journalist has been sentenced to 16 years in jail for taking bribes to cover up a mine disaster in Hebei province in July 2008. Li Junqi, former director of the Hebei bureau of Farmers'...

Are you scared of the Made in China label? So am I. So are most Chinese. One of the top concerns Chinese consumers have is product safety, according to the findings from 5,000 interviews in 15 cities...

General Motors may be struggling at home in the U.S., but business in China hit new records last year in an economy relatively unscathed by the global financial crisis. Auto sales for GM and its joint...

While pundits pondered whether President Barack Obama, on his first trip to China, had been out maneuvered by President Hu Jintao or whether he had achieved his objectives with quiet diplomacy, a bigg...

Agricultural Bank of China (ABC), the only bank among the Big Four State-run lenders yet to float shares, is planning to raise up to 150 billion yuan through a dual listing in Shanghai and Hong Kong a...

Chinese companies is likely to raise more than 320 billion yuan (46.87 billion U.S. dollars) from initial public offerings this year on the domestic stock market, up from 185.6 billion yuan in 2009, P...

Eight steel workers were confirmed dead on arrival to hospital Monday in Dalian, a coastal city in northeastern China's Liaoning province, local work safety watchdog said Tuesday morning. According to...

Four months ahead of the World Expo, Shanghai has become the second Chinese city to adopt security checks at subway stations, causing mixed reactions from local commuters. Beginning yesterday, securit...

The bustling construction site where China's fourth-largest air hub will emerge came to a sudden standstill Monday, when the local government ordered all work to be suspended after Sunday's bridge col...

Chinese central authorities have stressed the promotion of honesty and uprightness among the public, especially government officials, in enhancing clean governance and anti-corruption drive. It is imp...