Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Wednesday announced 50 of the best and brightest university students from Australia and Asia have received the Prime Minister's Australia Asia Endeavour Award....

A former local government official, dubbed the "super-expensive- cigarette director," was sentenced last month to 11 years in prison for accepting bribes. Zhou Jiugen came under fire from Chinese neti...

A formidable 15-foot high wall towered over the group of junior high school boys. For us, between 10 and 12 years old, this obstacle posed an impossible challenge: to pass the entire group over the ba...

I just arrived in Beijing a couple of days ago and am still catching up on the time change, so when I woke up ridiculously early one morning last week, I decided to take advantage of it and watch Amer...

China's banking regulator on Monday asked the country's commercial banks to better manage risks and avoid year-end volatility in lending. Commercial banks should ensure that lending increase was kept...

China's leading automotive corporation, the SAIC Group, expects to sell 2.65 million vehicles this year, a roughly 30 percent rise from a year ago, a company official said Monday. The SAIC Group, or S...

After attending a fashion show, this Chinese started to visit western cities of USA. During the days in Los angles and Las Vegas, he send 10,000 RMB (about 1 464.11 U.S. dollars) to Americans there, "...

IBM's energy unit sales chief, Bradley Gammons, and China research head, Thomas Li. The cameras that watch over hundreds of street intersections in the northeastern Chinese city of Shenyang (pop. 7.2...

The death toll from Sunday's colliery blast in central China's Hunan Province has risen to 11 and three people are still missing, the local government confirmed Monday. Rescue work was continuing Mond...

An earthquake measuring 4.8 on the Richter Scale jolted Sichuan Province in southwest China Monday afternoon, according to the provincial seismological network. The quake struck at 3:25 p.m., with the...

German Auto giant Volkswagen Group has unveiled an ambitious strategy called "Strive to Win" to more than triple its sales in south China from 150,000 units to half a million annually, China Daily rep...

The situation of gas shortage has been eased, the Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), China's top economic planner, said in a statement posted on its website Monday. A surging gas demand after t...