Beijing Automotive Industry Holdings Co Ltd (BAIC), China's fifth largest automaker, said yesterday it has agreed to take over some of the assets of General Motor's Saab arm as part of its plans to de...

Chery Automobile, China's largest indigenous car maker, will basically stay away from overseas acquisitions even though it has been approached repeatedly, its chairman said on Tuesday. "We have been o...

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group aims to conclude the acquisition of Ford Motor's Volvo Car Corp in early 2010 and has hired consultants for restructuring and integration, sources with direct knowledge of...

A holding company that will manage the tourism-related assets of the Shaolin Temple is likely to seek public funds for expansion before 2011, the Shanghai-based Oriental Morning Post reported yesterda...

China Mobile announced a formal split of China Railcom Communication (China Railcom) yesterday, marking the end of the Chinese telecom industry's reorganization. According to the plan, China Railcom w...

China Life, the world's largest life insurer by market value, reported a 23.1 percent year-on-year increase of premium income in November, the company said in a statement on Tuesday. However, the insu...

Just like Shanghai people enjoy being referred as Shanghainese, people in Beijing call themselves Beijingers. But don't be so naive to think that because you have worked or lived in Beijing for severa...

China has closed one of the country's largest file-sharing sites in what it says is a fight against copyright infringement, but could be seen as another measure aimed at controlling what content the c...

There have already been around 400 tons of leaves that have fallen alongside the streets of Shijingshan District this winter. Instead of being mixed with domestic waste and buried on landfill sites li...

Many foreign policy analysts in America and around the world perceive a growing alliance between Russia and China to counter U.S. influence. By looking at the diplomatic statements of the Shanghai Coo...

Rich Kuslan over at Aziabizblog has an excellent post up on emails (usually allegedly from China) that seek to scam attorneys. The post is entitled, " How Not to Get Scammed by a Scam Email, " and muc...

The view from my apartment window looks over a nice artificial lake with a clubhouse. Around the lake there is a children's play area and some barbecue pits. Years ago there was another clubhouse on t...