China's top legislature on Thursday adopted an amendment to individual income tax law, which raises the monthly tax exemption threshold from 2,000 yuan ($307.7) to 3,500 yuan($538.5). The adjusted thr...

China’s Jiaozhou Bay Bridge, the world’s longest cross-sea bridge, linking the eastern port city of Qingdao and the offshore island Huangdao, opens on June 30, 2011. China has opened the world's longe...

Chinese search engine Baidu.com announced that is plans to make a USD306 million investment in Qunar.com, a Chinese travel search engine. The investment will make Baidu the majority shareholder of Qun...

Mao's proverb that 'women hold up half the sky', has yet to be appreciated, write Michael Forsythe and Yidi Zhao. Li Rong had checked all the boxes for entry into China's governing class. A Communist...

China announced Sunday that it and Vietnam had agreed to hold talks on how to resolve conflicts arising from a sovereignty dispute over the South China Sea, an issue that has escalated tensions betwee...

Tencent Holdings Ltd, the world's third largest Internet firm, aims to be China's Facebook, Twitter and Google -- all rolled into one. While the company's market value has quadrupled to $50 billion ov...

Four would be too few. Ten would be too many. Five or nine would presumably produce an unaesthetic, wonky effect. So the smiling attendants on the test run of the Beijing to Shanghai high-speed rail l...

June 26th, a container truck hit a minivan then a sedan, finally crush a 23-people bus in Shitingjiang Section of Chengdu-Mianyang Highway. This accident cause 6 died on the spot and 16 people injured...

Girls looking for love walk down a catwalk during a matchmaking event in Wuhan, Central China's Hubei province on June 25, 2011. The event, billed "Meet the Rich Hero", has an eye-opening asking price...

Improper allocation of housing units, misuse of funds and an insufficient supply of land are undermining China's massive affordable housing program, a report by the State Audit Office said on Monday....

China's top auditor said Monday that the debts of local governments at provincial, city and county levels exceeded 10 trillion yuan ($1.54 trillion) by the end of 2010. Liu Jiayi, head of the National...

More than 80 school pupils have been admitted to hospital after inhaling poisonous gas released from a nearby chemical factory, www.gog.com.cn reported today. According to a teacher from Yucai middle...