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John C Tsang, the Financial Secretary of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) government, will leave for Beijing on Sunday for the opening ceremony and summit forum of the China (Beijing) International Fair for Trade in Services to be held on Monday.

Sichuan province became an increasingly important economic growth engine in western China.

China's top legislator cancelled a visit to Britain in anger over a meeting between British Prime Minister David Cameron and the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, a source said.

On March 1, 2012, Google implemented their new privacy policy of collecting users’ usage information for all Google services. This information could help Google tailor users’ search results and target users with advertising. Meanwhile, in China, a new regulation, which took effect on March 16, requires that all providers of Weibo (a social networking site) must verify their users’ real names an...

China has turned to the World Trade Organization to help block U.S. tariffs on 22 types of Chinese products, including solar panels, pipes for oil wells, coated paper and steel wheel hubs. The Chinese appeal to the WTO takes aim at the U.S. Commerce Department, which has recently imposed stiff duties on Chinese products. The department has cited Chinese subsidies, especially those funneled thro...

EUROPEAN STOCKS posted their first weekly advance in a month as China pledged to bolster growth and a three-week selloff left the Stoxx Europe 600 index at its cheapest level since January.

A DRIVER allegedly responsible for a toddler's death in a hit-and-run accident that shocked China stood trial yesterday, Chinese state media said.

The extreme weather conditions in the Gobi desert in China are not stopping local red wine producers.

TIANJIN, China — Few temples to conspicuous consumption are as quirky as the Florentia Village, a sprawling “authentic Italian luxury outlet center” on the outskirts of China’s northern city of Tianjin that boasts its own ersatz Colosseum. Read full article >>

BEIJING  - China on Friday strongly criticised a US report accusing it of human rights violations, calling the document "fraught with prejudice", and issued a scathing critique of the United States' own record. The annual US report, issued days after China allowed one of its best-known activists to go to New York to study, said Beijing's human rights record deteriorated in 2011 as ...

BONN, Germany (AP) -- The latest round of U.N. climate talks has failed to resolve how to share the burden of curbing man-made global warming, mainly because countries don't agree on who is rich and who is poor....

When metals warehouses in top consumer China are so full that workers start stockpiling iron ore in granaries and copper in car parks, you know the global economy could be in trouble.

Durante la entrega del reconocimiento, considerado el Nobel de la Arquitectura, el creador dijo que "China debe repensar el verdadero significado de ciudad"

Am Mittwoch ist in Wenzhou (China) das Kreuzfahrtschiff „No. 7 Mingzhu Cruise“ (33 Meter hoch, 158 Meter lang, 8600 Tonnen schwer) in eine Hängebrücke gekracht. Foto: ImagoMehr zum ThemaZweiter toter Deutscher - So starb Ralf A. am Mount EverestOranje-Wahn in Holland - Habt Ihr noch alle Löcher im Käse?Real-Trainer Mourinho - Der Fußball hat mir mein Leben genommenMenowin motzt - DSDS-Kids ist...

Bei der Badminton-WM im chinesischen Wuhan treffen sowohl im Damen- wie auch im Herren-Finale Gastgeber China und Südkorea aufeinander.

Tensions between China and the Philippines have increased in recent weeks over who controls a group of small uninhabited islands in the South China Sea. How can the dispute be resolved?

The 12-inch monkey described as 'a slippery little beast,' managed to free itself from its crate inside the plane's cargo hold before takeoff at JFK International Airport in New York yesterday.

Geringere Steuern, weniger Auflagen, Treuhandanstalten: Mit Sonderwirtschaftszonen in krisengeschüttelten EU-Staaten will die Bundesregierung Wachstum schaffen. mehr...

China doesn't need all the steel it is churning out, and talk of more infrastructure spending isn't turning around prices. Breakneck Chinese growth once defined the commodities boom, but the steel glut is yet more evidence that you can have too much of a good thing.

Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster this morning reiterates an Overweight rating on shares of Apple (AAPL) and a $910 price target, offering his view on “ten key points” he thinks are important to consider on the way to a $1,000 share price “in the next couple years.” The most important things are further innovation, he believes, coming in this year’s product lineup, ...

A newly-built luxury cruise ship manged to collide with part of a bridge in China, chopping off the chimney after falling victim to high tide.

China Investment Corporation is in advanced talks to add up to $2 billion to the Alibaba Internet Group's efforts to buy back a stake from struggling Internet pioneer Yahoo!, the New York Times reported.

Die chinesischen Stahlriesen Baosteel und Wuhan bekommen grünes Licht für den Bau zweier der größten Stahlwerke der Welt. Die zusätzlichen rund zwanzig Millionen Tonnen Jahreskapazität entsprechen fast der Hälfte der deutschen Rohstahlproduktion.

"Caibopengke." I wonder how many self-declared "caibopengke" guys there were in China's billion-strong population -- before the whole thing became governmentalized and/or criminalized. Two, maybe? Five? ???? Caibo Pengke Cyber Punk http://www.thedarkvisitor.com/hacker-glossary/ Hacker Glossary Published by Heike Hacker/Internet Terminology http://hackbase.com/hacker/safety/200507...

COPS arrest man suspected of murdering men — chopping up their bodies and selling it on as ostrich meat

Asian shares hit their lowest levels for the year, after manufacturing activity in the euro zone shrinks to its lowest since June 2009, and China heads for soft first half

No wonder Nicolas Anelka has remained tight-lipped over Didier Drogba's proposed switch to China. The Frenchman has fallen out with the Shanghai Shenhua hierarchy over the potential appointment of a new coach.

China "moving into stimulus mode" says Miranda Carr

BEIJING -- China on Friday rejected a U.S. State Department report that criticized China's human rights record, saying Washington's critique was inaccurate and irresponsible.Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei called the China section of the annual State Department human rights report "baseless, biased and completely wrong."Read More...More on China

There are discrepancies between the U.S., the UK, France, Germany, Russia and China, members of the Group 5 +1 (G5 +1) - to respond to the proposal made by Iran in talks that have started Wednesday morning in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital

Utl.: China reformiert Gesundheitssystem und investiert in Pharma- und Biotechnologie - Jank: Wiener Know-how im Bereich Life-Sciences entwickelt sich zum Exportschlager = Wien (OTS) - Im Rahmen einer sechstägigen China-Reise nützt Österreichs Wirtschaftsvertreterin WK …

THE Australian share market relinquished early gains to close around 0.6 per cent lower as relentless uncertainty over Greece's future plagued investors.

THE Australian sharemarket hit a six-month low in nervous trading as markets weakened amid jitters over China and Greece.

A regime that killed millions now rules with a lighter, somewhat whimsical touch.China Daily, the largest English-language newspaper in China, carried a front-page headline last week: "Village Gratitude Shows Integrity of Task."

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao has demanded senior Communist Party officials stifle tensions over the ousting of ambitious politician Bo Xilai and show unity as they prepare for a change of leadership, sources briefed on recent meetings said.

Acht neue Kompaktwagen in drei Jahren: Toyota greift die Konkurrenz da an, wo sie traditionell stark ist - auf Wachstumsmärkten wie China, Indien oder Brasilien.

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon welcomes the recently concluded talks between Iran and the E3+3 grouping - made up of the United Kingdom, the United States, US, China, France, Germany and Russia - his spokesperson said today.

POLICE in southwest China have detained a man suspected of murdering more than a dozen boys and young men, chopping up their bodies and selling the flesh to unsuspecting consumers.

Tweet Widget Facebook Like The European Union needs to hold China accountable for its human rights obligations under international law or face the prospect that its human rights dialogue with the world’s second largest economy will become irrelevant. (Brussels) – The European Union needs to hold China accountable for its human righ...

If you've got a major-brand camera with a built-in GPS, don't plan on taking any geotagged photos in China. Chinese law prohibits mapmaking without a license, and most of the large camera manufacturers have complied with this regulation by quietly slipping a censorship function into the GPS -- when you take a picture, the camera [...]

The man had entered a train station in the Zhejiang province in China late at night and slightly the worse for wear.

US defence secretary Leon Panetta will visit India in early June, for two days, to further develop US-India ties that American officials, with an eye on China, say is a “priority” for Washington and which the Obama administration repeatedly describes as “one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century for the US”.

A new study from Forrester Research on technology adoption by urban Chinese consumers illustrates the ubiquitousness of the mobile Internet in China.

The U.N. General Assembly today formally extended Navi Pillay's term as U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights for another two years. But not before House Foreign Affairs Chair Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) and Rep. Elliot Engel (D-NY) fired off an angry letter calling on the Obama administration to "publicly and strongly oppose" Pillay's extension, saying she has been too...

Una docena de empresas españolas sellaron ayer en el palacio de La Moncloa acuerdos comerciales con China por valor de unos 500 millones de euros. La firma tuvo lugar tras la entrevista que mantuvieron el presidente del Gobierno y el presidente de la Asamblea Popular Nacional de China, Wu Bangguo, de visita en España. Mariano Rajoy agradeció la compra de deuda española por parte del país asiáti...

JERUSALEM (AP) -- After a prolonged chill, security ties between Israel and China are warming up....

You might argue that a Chinese company could hardly have picked a better week to become the second-largest owner of cinemas in the US.

Stocks had been rising for much of the morning, but dropped suddenly as a Bloomberg headline crossed the wires indicating that big Chinese banks will miss their loan targets for the first time in seven years, more evidence of sluggish demand in the country. The Dow fell nearly 100 points immediately after the news, dropping [...]

Nanjing, China (ots/PRNewswire) -- Lieferkosten im erwarteten Bereich; Umstellungskosten gesunken NANJING, China, 24. Mai 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- China Sunergy Co., Ltd. (?China Sunergy" oder ?das Unternehmen"), ein spezialisierter Hersteller von Solarzellen und Solarmodulen, gab heute seine …

Just when we think we've seen it all from Rihanna, she goes and pulls the rug right out from underneath us! The pop star took her latest single from Talk That Talk, the Calvin Harris and Dr. Luke-produced Where Have You Been, to the American Idol stage last night for a special, season finale performance, and [...]

PARIS (Reuters) - China spurred a jump in global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions to their highest ever recorded level in 2011, offsetting falls in the United States and Europe, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Thursday.

Seit zwei Jahren stand er unter strenger Überwachung: Nun ist dem Bruder des blinden Aktivisten Chen Guangchen auch die Flucht aus dem Hausarrest gelungen. Chen Guangfu will in Peking für die Rechte seines inhaftierten Sohnes kämpfen.

In his second general election ad, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney expands on his promises for his first day in office. On Day One, the narrator says, Romney would announce deficit reductions, “ending the Obama era of big government.” He will stand up to China on trade, demanding they “play by the rules.” And he will repeal “job-killing regulations.” Read full articl...

The brother of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has fled his village in northeastern China, evading a security clampdown to seek help from lawyers for his son who has been detained in a case that has become a rallying point among rights activists

How the company is changing in the post-Steve Jobs era FORTUNE -- Adam Lashinsky, whose 240-page book Inside Apple taught us more about how Apple (AAPL) works as a company than 656 pages of the Steve Jobs biography, has a 3,000-word piece in the current issue of Fortune about How Tim Cook Is Changing Apple. He covers all the bases that had previously been reported -- ...

Peking (dpa) - Ein junges Paar in China soll eine Frau nach einem Autounfall lebendig begraben haben. Die beiden 25 Jahre alten Verdächtigen sollen auf diese grausame Weise versucht haben, einen Unfa...

Una joven pareja china fue detenida por supuestamente haber enterrado viva a una mujer de 68 años a la que habían atropellado con su coche en la provincia de Zhejiang, al este de China, según el diario oficial 'China Daily'.

* Bid that helps with China warehousing could win support

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Sanofi-Aventis plans to begin testing a novel compound that is designed to starve liver cancer to death in a phase one human clinical trial in China and possibly South Korea in 2013.

The brother of blind activist Chen Guangcheng has fled his village in northeastern China, evading a security clampdown to seek help from lawyers for his son who has been detained in a case that has become a rallying point among rights activists.

Seit Tagen brodelt die Gerüchteküche um Mittelfeldspieler Jose Manuel Jurado vom FC Schalke 04. Nun soll es neben einem Angebot von Olympiakos Piräus auch eins aus China geben.

A prominent American forensic scientist, Henry C. Lee, said a police detective from the city of Chongqing contacted him about analyzing a blood sample from someone who had died after drinking.

Italian fashion retailer’s operating profit climbed 23% in 2011 as it expanded its retail network and continued to develop its presence in China

THE USE of violence by city workers known as chengguan — city inspectors, bailiffs and municipal enforcers whose job it is to apply city regulations – is stoking up widespread unrest in China, Human Rights Watch said in a report yesterday.

Rare access to London's oldest wholesale market reveals that as tastes change so does the products that are sold there.

A Chinese national has been charged in Massachusetts with illegally supplying China with sensors used in producing weapons-grade uranium.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Washington's failure to ratify the Law of the Sea Convention puts the U.S. military at increasing risk of confrontation with rising powers like China, U.S. officials said on Wednesday as the Obama administration began a new push to join the 30-year-old treaty.

Soybean futures fell 1.4% to a nearly two-month low, as weather forecasts improved for U.S. crops and traders worried about signs of slowing Chinese demand.

Despite getting out of oil exploration blocks in the South China Sea, India is keen to maintain a strong role for itself in the region.

This week's Meet the Author is a young teenager's science fiction adventure, Railsea, based on Moby Dick.

Earlier this morning, our own John Biggs was joined on stage by a handful of New York-based makers who have made a name for themselves by building physical things (or in one case, building something that builds other things). Biggs kicked off the panel with a simple question: — can we bring manufacturing back? Bre Pettis, CEO of Makerbot Industries, has two shifts of workers putting together a...

Griechenland und die Euro-Zone stehen vor der Scheidung, europäische Investoren legen keinen Wert mehr auf Rendite und in China werden die Fliegen aus den Toiletten verbannt. Der Tagesrückblick

Businesses using 123-Reg's web hosting service go offline after reports of a DDoS attack from China.

Three-year-old saved after riding a toy scooter through busy traffic in China

Customers of major UK domain registrar 123-reg suffered a couple of hours of downtime this afternoon due to an apparently “massive” denial of service attack. The attack targeted its DNS servers and originated in China, according to a report in The Register. Users reported sites offline or with spotty availability, but the company managed to [...] Related posts:ZoneEdit offline for five days D...

World markets plunged Wednesday on renewed anxiety over Greece ahead of a meeting of European leaders, and signs that the Chinese economy is losing steam.

Shanghai Shenhua's talks with Didier Drogba are continuing "just as planned", raising expectations the striker will move to China after exiting Chelsea.

* Reforms to spur moves into derivatives, wealth management

President Obama is touting his successes in managing our economic relations with China, but the facts show that Beijing is still taking America to school, writes guest columnist Alan Tonelson.

Televisions are being made in the U.S. again, but the effort says as much about marketing as it does about the global shift in manufacturing costs that is lifting wages in China and elsewhere.

Why is China buying America's movie theaters?

The West must realise South Africa does not need its money since it can turn to India and China to fund its economic development, says Gwede Mantashe.

With low production costs, cheap labor and a flat tax rate, Bulgaria offered an ideal opportunity for Great Wall Motor, which now builds three models in the country.

Investors were lured back into the market today by hopes of further stimulus measures in China and optimism ahead of a key EU summit.

International research collaborations are multiplying fast, with one-quarter of the world's science and engineering publications now featuring authors from more than one country. But not all national funding agencies manage their science in the same way--researchers in China win grant funding through very different processes from their European peers, for example--which can hamper projects that...

zacharye writes with news of the end of the regulatory saga that was Google acquiring Motorola Mobility. From the article: "In line with earlier reports, Google on Tuesday finalized its acquisition of Motorola Mobility. The $12.5 billion merger was approved by regulators in China on Monday after having been given the green light by the United States Department of Justice this past February. Chi...

The May 23 Baghdad talks between Iran and the P5+1 (United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, plus Germany) may prove to be a crucial juncture in the Iranian nuclear crisis. The talks could lead to a compromise with Iran while a lack of compromise could lead to an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear facilities, and possibly a costly regional war involving the United States. There is ...

In China erfüllen sich Millionen den Traum vom eigenen Auto. Das führt zum Verkehrschaos: Parkplätze gibt es kaum, dafür falsche Parkwächter, die die Autofahrer abzocken.

@2002el6 Ach, Du bist das :-) Nette Animation. Ich war damals am Plattensee, wir hatten (nach strömendem Regen noch um 8:00 Uhr) tolles Wetter bis zum Ende der totalen Phase. 1981 war ich noch auf der Schule, 11. Klasse, da war an Sibirien noch nicht zu denken. Meine erste totale war 1998 in Curacao, das war auch die schönste, direkt am Strand. Für eine ringförmige bin ich mal nach Island, ...

Climbers from China, Germany, Canada and South Korea have been killed as hundreds made a bid to summit Mount Everest at the weekend.

Fernando Alonso no se da por vencido en esto del amor. Después de su frustrada 'amistad' con la modelo Xenia Tchoumitcheva, ya se le ha vuelto a ver muy arrimado a otra maniquí rusa, Kapustina Dasha. Las fotografías del deportista y la joven, de 22 años, se tomaron en una fiesta tras el Gran Premio de China, el pasado abril, y se han publicado en una web dedicada al asturiano. Según cuentan en ...

India is among one of the 10 countries that are most at risk of being wiped out by an asteroid. China and the United States also appear in the list.

China is becoming an important partner for many African countries such as Zambia but who will this partnership benefit more?

Online war game World of Tanks and its simulation siblings are redoubling their Chinese efforts after their developer Wargaming.net tied up a regional deal with KongZhong Corp.

Chinese regulators attached a big condition: that Google’s Android operating system for mobile devices remain available at no cost for the next five years.

Schaulustige von China bis in die USA beobachten Naturspektakel

The owner of China’s largest movie theater circuit took a big leap forward into the U.S. market, acquiring AMC Entertainment Inc., the nation’s second-largest theater chain, the latest in a flurry of high-profile deal-making between the countries’ entertainment industries.

For members of China’s Communist elite, sending money overseas makes sense as a political hedge.

The Wanda Group, a Chinese conglomerate with extensive interests in the entertainment business, has agreed to acquire AMC Entertainment, North America’s second-largest movie theater owner.

AsiaInfo-Linkage, a provider of telecommunications software solutions and related services in China, has announced plans to establish its European headquarters in Cambridge, United Kingdom, as part of an ongoing initiative to expand its operations across international markets. AsiaInfo-Linkage has a leading position in China with a greater than 50% share of the telecommunications billing, CRM, ...

Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng made it out, but joining the human rights fight back in China is now a tougher proposition.

Tonight, China and the Western United States will be able to see an annular eclipse, the first of its kind since 1994. An annular eclipse is when the moon lines up between Earth and the Sun to create what looks like a ring of fire. It looks awesome. Of course, not all of us live in China or the West Coast, that's why we'll watch it online. More »

Katie Taylor received a rapturous welcome at Dublin Airport this evening after securing her fourth straight World Championship boxing title in China yesterday.

Den Ermittlern, die den Mord an der Polizistin Michèle Kiesewetter 2007 in Heilbronn aufklären sollten, sind mehrere schwere Pannen unterlaufen. Das berichtet FOCUS unter Berufung auf interne Akten der Soko "Parkplatz".Mehr zum ThemaFrankreichs Angriff auf dem G8-Gipfel - Hollande will Eurobonds gegen Merkels Widerstand durchsetzenChen Guangcheng aus China in die USA geflogen - Blinder Aktivist...

Die inhaftierte ukrainische Oppositionspolitikerin Julia Timoschenko hat sich offenbar gegen einen Boykott der Fußball-EM in ihrer Heimat ausgesprochen. Ukrainische Regierungspolitiker fühlen sich derweil von der EU behandelt wie "Schuljungen".Mehr zum ThemaChen Guangcheng aus China in die USA geflogen - Blinder Aktivist mit Jubel empfangen – Sorge um die AngehörigenHollande will Truppen aus Af...

Pressure on blind Chinese rights activist Chen Guangcheng's family shows that his flight does not mean China will relax its grip on dissent.

Der chinesische Menschenrechtsaktivist Chen Guangcheng ist von begeisterten Fans in den USA empfangen worden. Chen ist glücklich - und sorgt sich um seine Angehörigen in China. Diese Sorge treibt auch andere um.

Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility.

Two young men were arrested on Friday in the fatal shooting of two University of Southern California graduate students near the campus last month.

What should you read this weekend? USA TODAY suggests Sadie Jones' The Uninvited Guests and China Mieville's Railsea.

WOMEN'S BOXING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS:Katie Taylor notched up her fourth straight World Championship title here this morning after beating Russian southpaw Sofya Ochigava 11-7 in a tense technical final in Qinhuangdao, northern China.

Blind human rights activist Chen Guangcheng has left China and is now on a plane bound for the United States.

Kim Smith of Mission, B.C. scored 12 points to lead Canada to a 45-37 win over China in women’s basketball action Friday night.

Los Angeles police Friday afternoon arrested the man suspected of fatally shooting two USC students from China in a botched robbery and a second man believed to have some involvement in the killings, several LAPD sources said. The man suspected...

The search giant Baidu and the huge social media hub Sina Weibo are urging users in China to help crack down on "misbehaving foreigners."

A long-term display of Ferraris in China, oddly called the Ferrari Myth, is the Italian automaker's first such exhibition outside Italy.

AUSTRALIA does not have the military capability to defend itself against China should it ever prove hostile, strategic expert warns.

A U.S. Commerce Department anti-dumping decision could help some U.S. companies and hurt others. The United States Commerce Department concluded today that Chinese solar panel manufacturers are dumping solar panels in the U.S., and is penalizing them by imposing a 30 percent tariff on 62 solar manufacturers in China and a general 250 percent tariff on other solar panel manufacturers in China. T...

After facing a tough time in its home continent, Europe, luxury writing instrument player, MontBlanc now looks at scaling up in India and China. Rachit Vats reports.

Utl.: Wer die Hauptstadt Lhasa besucht, dem bietet sich das Bild einer modernen Stadt = Wien (OTS) - Das Eisen ist so heiß, dass man sich in jedem Fall die Finger verbrennt. Dennoch, für "China heute und morgen" kann und soll Tibet nicht ausgespart werden. Schon allein seine Größe …

As official suicide bombing story shifts, the already battered reputation of China’s justice system is emerging as another casualty

GUANGZHOU, China (AP) -- Marcello Lippi has been hired to coach big-spending Chinese Super League team Guangzhou Evergrande and plans to bring an Italian style to the club immediately....

BOXING:TEARFUL Katie Taylor said reaching the Olympic Games was “a dream come true” after she qualified for London with a walkover at the AIBA World Women’s Championships in the Qinhuangdao resort town in China.

China will fail to meet its carbon and energy intensity targets unless it makes dramatic changes to its electricity grid, a groundbreaking new report finds. [More]

China has cricitised the United States for setting up a new military base in Australia, and accused both countries of having a "Cold War mentality".

HONG KONG (Reuters) - China Mobile, the world's biggest telecom carrier by subscribers, said on Wednesday it is negotiating with Apple Inc to carry the popular iPhone in China.

Three of Britain’s female boxers are close to Olympic qualification after wins at the World Championships in Qinhuangdao, China.

FOR at least a decade, think tanks and chanceries have echoed with tales of China's rise.

The Globe's Asia correspondent takes your questions on Canada, China and immigration

Esperan que ese país se vuelva el segundo mercado más grande de películas en poco tiempo

Brazilian steelmaker Gerdau (NYSE: GGB) is studying a partnership with Asian companies for the development of its mining assets, local paper Cruzeiro do Sul reported. The companies, from China, Jap...

Die Volksrepublik China hat in den vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnten einen kolossalen wirtschaftlichen Aufschwung erlebt. Die Zufriedenheit der Chinesen indes scheint das nicht befördert zu haben: Sie wurde im gleichen Zeitraum sogar geringer.

El cínico respaldo de Rusia y China al régimen sirio bloquea las iniciativas internacionales

Fresh off winning a CBA title with the Beijing Ducks, Marbury spent the past week touring China for charity initiatives and launching his autobiography.

This year, for the first time, women will be allowed to box at the Olympics, and Britain has three contenders hoping to make history. They are currently in China at the World Championships, fighting for their places in the Olympic team

US STOCKS took a beating last week, only to face more turbulence from Europe as Greece grapples with rising political uncertainty.

Dieses Markenzeichen hat Tradition in China: Schon das erste Auto aus der Volksrepublik trug eine Rote Fahne. Jetzt recken Maos Erben das Logo wieder stolz in den Wind - und werden künftig vor allem weniger Audis kaufen.

David Mulroney guided Sino-Canadian relations at critical juncture

In a move that could calm frayed diplomatic nerves between India and China, New Delhi has decided to exit the oil block no 128 in South China Sea. Jayanth Jacob & Anupama Airy report.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court has turned down a Freedom of Information Act request to disclose National Security Agency records about the 2010 cyberattack on Google users in China....

Between 1405 and 1433, Ming emperor Zhu Di despatched Admiral Zheng He on seven naval expeditions with the largest ships then known to mankind. These ranged far and wide and brought back treasure, strange animals and knowledge of the world’s peripheries to the Middle Kingdom. But Chinese court politics, a twisted battle between palace eunuchs and court mandarins, discontinued these voyages and,...

Aus China kommen die schärfsten Konkurrenten der deutschen Solarindustrie. Für den Konzern Conergy naht von dort allerdings angeblich die Rettung. Andere Firmen der Solarbranche haben sich im ersten Quartal ordentlich geschlagen.

Das Wahldebakel in Griechenland und enttäuschende Konjunkturzahlen aus China können die Anleger am Morgen nicht weiter schrecken. Der Dax legt zum Handelsstart gut 50 Punkte zu.

La encuesta reporta que China encabezó el estudio con 71% de empleados que admiten decir estar enfermos cuando en realidad no lo están; en tanto que Francia tuvo el menor número con 16%

Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland routed Sara Errani 6-0, 6-1 on Wednesday, and Li Na of China also advanced at the Madrid Open.

Chen Guangcheng will be permitted to leave China

BEIJING  - China will this week launch its first home-grown deep-water drilling rig located in the South China Sea, some 300 kilometres (200 miles) southeast of Hong Kong, state media reported Tuesday.China, dependent on oil imports to fuel its surging economy, claims full sovereignty on the sea, which has huge oil and gas reserves, often leading to diplomatic rows with its neighbours.The ...

BEIJING  - China will this week launch its first home-grown deep-water drilling rig located in the South China Sea, some 300 kilometres (200 miles) southeast of Hong Kong, state media reported Tuesday.China, dependent on oil imports to fuel its surging economy, claims full sovereignty on the sea, which has huge oil and gas reserves, often leading to diplomatic rows with its neighbours.The ...

Erstmals seit 14 Jahren haben die chinesischen Behörden eine Journalistin des Landes verwiesen. Grund: Al Jazeera hatte eine Dokumentation über Arbeitslager gesendet.

In a hotel ballroom in Portland, Or., this past April, the tables were laid not with silverware and china, but replicas of some of the most important human fossils in the world. Seasoned paleoanthropologists and graduate students alike milled among them, pausing to examine a cutmarked Neandertal skull from Croatia, the bizarre foot bones of [...]

Students in central China have resorted to classroom intravenous drips as a study aid to prepare for the nation's notoriously difficult college entrance exams, state press says.

Angesichts des Embargos der westlichen Welt findet Iran offenbar Wege, sein Öl gegen Yuan-Devisen nach China zu exportieren. Die chinesische Währung wird von Teheran als Zahlungsmittel akzeptiert.

[[394916]] L'allemand Metro, quatrième distributeur mondial, projette de doubler le nombre de ses magasins chinois au cours des trois ou quatre prochaines années, rapporte mardi le journal China Business News. Metro, qui possédait à la fin de l'année dernière 52 magasins disséminés dans 37 villes...

Cheap panels from China have forced the U.S. solar giant to lay off workers and close factories, but the company says it sees a way out of its mess.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and China both have advanced cyber warfare capabilities and must work to avoid miscalculations that could lead to conflict, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Monday as he hosted the first visit by a Chinese defense minister in nine years.

Jordan Gerberg, Founder of WorldwideLottery.com will rejoin the G2EAsia Expo in Macau, People's Republic of China on May 22-24, 2012 to meet with global leaders and individual representatives of the Asian and International gaming markets. - - In the p...

The Facility will create thousands of new jobs

The Water Cube was glowing again when French fashion mogul Pierre Cardin held his latest fashion show there recently.

A few days before the Year of the Dragon began, Jiayuan (Beautiful Destiny), China’s largest online dating service, summoned new employees to an orientation meeting at its headquarters, in a Beijing office tower. Over the holiday, single men and women across the country would be returning home to . . . (Subscription required.)

China now has more than 1 billion mobile subscribers (India isn't far behind) — that's more than three times the US. Second, China now has more than 150 million 3G users, as reported by mobiThinking. "These are the sum of subscriber stats from the three main Chinese operators. Third, China has more than 400 million mobile Internet users (i.e. more than there are mobile subscribers in the US), a...

Headline Title:  China: Chen pledge ‘empty’ 04 May 2012 A pledge by China that it will allow Chen Guangcheng to go abroad with his family so he can study seems empty as long as the Chinese state keeps the activist’s wider family in detention and retaliates against his support...

The co-founder of 'Spitting Image' has rediscovered a talent for ceramics, on a monumental scale - and he's gone to China to create them. Malcolm Moore meets Roger Law in Jiangxi province.

Ciments Français, filiale du groupe italien de matériaux de construction...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House is sidestepping questions about how the U.S. might resolve the predicament surrounding a blind Chinese activist who sought refuge in the American embassy and who no longer wants to remain China....

AN BORD Pleanála has ruled that the first phase of an enormous Chinese trading hub on the edge of Athlone, Co Westmeath, would be “in accordance with the proper planning and sustainable development of the area”.

by John Vespasian According to the tradition, Confucius resigned his job when he was 55 years old and devoted the next 13 years of his life to preaching his ideals. During those 13 years, he wandered around different provinces of China, accompanied by a few disciples, looking for elevated souls who would appreciate his philosophical ideas.In this respect, Confucius was following one of h...

President Obama pressed China on Monday to improve its record on human rights, while declining to discuss Chen Guangcheng, the blind lawyer who escaped house arrest.

REMARKABLY, THE whereabouts and future of a blind, self-educated, legal advocate from a Shandong province village in eastern China have now become elements in the political dynamics in, and between, the world’s two great powers, China and the US. Chen Guangcheng’s dramatic escape from effective house arrest and his flight to what is still presumed to be the US embassy in Beijing have thrilled s...

Im direkten Wettbewerb der beiden Großmächte kann es keinen Sieger geben: China braucht die amerikanischen Innovationen, und die USA sind angewiesen auf den chinesischen Markt.

The show attracted 2,000 compaies from 36 countries - and 84 new vehicles were unveiled at the show, a sign of the increasing power China has in the global car market.

"Die Unsinkbare II"? Der Australier Clive Palmer will die Titanic kopieren - mit neuester Technik aus China. Das Kreuzfahrtschiff mit seinem "ultimativen Luxus" soll das berühmte Original sogar in den Schatten stellen.

Mitt Romney said yesterday he hopes U.S. officials will “take every measure” to ensure the safety of Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng – thought to have taken refuge at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing - and to also protect Cheng’s family and supporters from persecution. “Any serious U.S. policy toward China must confront the facts of the Chinese government’s denial of political libertie...

Une filiale de China Chemical & Petroleum (Sinopec) réclame à BNP Paribas 46,6 millions de dollars pour rupture de contrat liée à une lettre de crédit, a rapporté l'agence Bloomberg. La plainte a été déposée à la Haute Cour de Hong Kong le 26 avril par la filiale Unipec Asia de Sinopec, ajoute...Articles en rapportGolfe: plaidoyer saoudien en faveur d'une union des monarchiesUn nouveau gouv...

China, the largest purchaser of oil from South Sudan, has agreed to loan the fledgling country $8-billion.

China's economic growth will continue to be energy-intensive and highly polluting for the foreseeable future with emissions and efficiency far below capital growth on the agenda, according to a new study.

La chanteuse est une geisha dans la vidéo de son duo avec Coldplay, Princess of China

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top Republican lawmaker on Thursday called on the Obama administration to negotiate an investment treaty with China while increasing pressure on Beijing to reform unfair trade and currency practices he said were spreading to other top developing countries.

RIHANNA stars and duets in Coldplay's new video Princess of China

Rihanna is taking getting handsy to a whole new level.

Erstmals seit Beginn der Krise 2008 belebt sich der deutsche Markt für Übernahmen und Fusionen wieder. Besonders kauffreudig zeigen sich Investoren aus China - auch in Branchen, in denen man sie bislang kaum gesehen hat.

A rare gene from a dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacterium is becoming more common by being transferred between strains, and seems to boost virulence in skin and respiratory infections.Yuan Lu at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and Michael Otto at the National Institute of Allergy and

Auf der "Auto China" in Peking (27. April bis 2. Mai) ist zu besichtigen, wie sich diverse Edel-Autoschmieden eine einträgliche Zukunft vorstellen: Mit kraftstrotzenden Luxus-SUVs, die sich weder beim Preis noch bei der Leistung Limits auferlegen.

HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese scientists have cloned a genetically modified sheep containing a "good" type of fat found naturally in nuts, seeds, fish and leafy greens that helps reduce the risk of heart attacks and cardiovascular disease.

China’s economic strength is showing itself in a boom in museum building and an expansion of art shows being sent abroad.

Hong Kong airline Cathay Pacific said Monday a mid-air prank by the wife of football star David Beckham on a flight to Beijing was "inappropriate".

BRITISH ace suffered same error as his McLaren team-mate Jenson Button in China

BEIJING (AP) -- A township council chief in northern China has been arrested on suspicion of ordering the torching of a factory that made gelatin capsules made from industrial waste....

With China controlling more than 90 percent of the world’s production of rare earth metals, the automobile industry is searching for alternative materials.

Lushan, China (ots/PRNewswire) - Ein wichtiges, von Lushan Tourism Co., Ltd. organisiertes, religiöses Ereignis, die ?Pilgerreise zum großen und für die Menschheit bedeutenden Berg - ein Besuch der Lobpreisung" fand am 14. und 15. April 2012 auf dem Lushan Mountain statt. Vor dem Beishan …

THE mystery of a British businessman murdered in China took an intriguing twist yesterday as MPs demanded to know if he was a spy.

Wang Xiaopeng, from Yinchuan in China, has lived behind a hard shell of scar tissue for two years. Now a special appeal fund has been set up to help him.

Utl.: Schmidjell besuchte mit chinesischem Zivilminister LI Liguo das SOS-Kinderdorf in Seekirchen = Salzburg (OTS) - Mag. Cornelia Schmidjell, Landesrätin für Gesundheit und Soziales, empfing heute, Freitag, 20. April, eine hochrangige Delegation aus der Volksrepublik China, …

Tenant du titre en Chine, Nicolas Colsaerts n’a pas manqué son entrée en lice sur le Volvo China Open, épreuve de l’European Tour dotée de 2.425.180 euros, à ...lire la suitehistoires liées15:22 Les journées “Egalité des Chances” en région liégeoise débutent le 28 avril14:48 Interpellation en Norvège du policier grenoblois soupçonné d’avoir tué son ex-compagne15:01 Diffamation: Marine Le Pen dé...

Dans un Volvo China Open dominé pour le moment par Matthew Baldwin,...

UN's Ban says Assad regime has yet to send "a clear signal" on peace; China considering sending observers.

Found at the site of an ancient Chinese city, the 1,500-year-old statues—some life-size—may have been buried by temple officials.

Alno sucht sein Heil in China. Mit einem chinesischen Partner gründet der Küchenhersteller ein Gemeinschaftsunternehmen. Alno-Chef Müller wehrt sich gegen den Vorwurf, überzogene Beraterverträge abgeschlossen zu haben.

Sie wollen nicht nur Solar, sondern auch Wind: Chinesische Firmen wie Sinovel und Goldwind interessieren sich offenbar für den weltgrößten Windradhersteller Vestas aus Dänemark, berichtet die Financi...

FORMER Chelsea ace wants to lure old strike partner to Shanghai Shenhua

Google-Mitbegründer Sergey Brin sieht die Prinzipien des offenen Internets durch autoritäre Staaten wie China, Saudi-Arabien und den Iran, aber auch durch die Online-Politik der Unterhaltungsindustrie und die "vermauerten Gärten" der Google-Konkurrenten Facebook und Apple bedroht. "Rund um die Welt haben sich sehr mächtige Kräfte gegen das freie Internet formiert", sagte Brin der britischen Tag...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Nico Rosberg won the Chinese Grand Prix for Mercedes from pole position on Sunday in the first victory of his 111-race Formula One career.

Mercedes-Pilot Nico Rosberg hat sich beim Großen Preis von China den ersten Formel-1-Sieg seiner Karriere gesichert.Foto: AFP

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Germany's Nico Rosberg rocketed to the first pole position of his Formula One career at the Chinese Grand Prix on Saturday.

3D-Vorstellungen können ja bekanntlich einige Probleme aufwerfen, unter anderem muss man eine doofe Brille tragen und manche Leute bekommen davon Kopfschmerzen. Wenn die Kinofans in...

El PIB de China, la segunda economía mundial, creció un 8,1 % en el primer trimestre de 2012 con respecto al mismo periodo de 2011, la tasa más baja desde mediados de 2010, según ha informado el Buró Nacional de Estadísticas (NBS).

We've all heard the complaints and concerns about 3-D. The annoying glasses, the headaches. But this one takes the cake. As they flock to see Titanic 3D, moviegoers in China are...

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L'allenatore dei siciliano accetta la sconfitta e ammette la difficoltà a rimontare i due goal del Chievo in inferiorità numerica. Inutile per Montella il goal fortuito del 2-1.

Victoria Beckham channels her inner avatar for the cover of the May issue of Harper's Bazaar China. We scarcely recognized Posh with that flaming red hair, bold feathered brows, deep...

The Wizards are all about reunions these days. After recently bringing back Cartier Martin, they have also now signed James Singleton to a 10-day contract. Singleton, 30, was part of the Wizards’ trade deadline deal in February 2010 that shipped Caron Butler, Brendan Haywood and DeShawn Stevenson to Dallas and also yielded Josh Howard. He averaged 6.1 points and 6.9 rebounds and was a vo...

Coffee chain's earnings could get a double shot from China and single-serve pods.

BEIJING (Reuters) - PetroChina Co Ltd is talking to Royal Dutch Shell and Hess Corp to explore shale oil in Santanghu Basin in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, parent China National...

Ich bin ja gerade im Urlaub; Internetanschluss ist hier sehr wackelig bis nicht vorhanden. Aber anscheinend passieren gerade ziemlich dramatische Dinge und da mir so viele Leute deswegen geschrieben haben (ich hab sogar ne SMS bekommen - wo habt ihr denn meine Nummer her?), und weil es eine wirklich große Sache ist, wollte ich doch noch was dazu sagen. Dass China ziemlich starke Raumfahr...

Die deutschen Tischtennis-Herren haben im Finale der Heim-WM die erhoffte Überraschung gegen China klar verpasst.Foto: dpa

Good thing Stephon Marbury's making bank playing ball in China -- because his L.A. mansion was just sold at a foreclosure auction.According to new court docs, obtained by TMZ, Stephon owed $3.1 million on the 7-bdrm 8-bath 8,000 sq. ft. L.A.…

Workers on Apple assembly lines sometimes worked 60 hours per week, seven days straight.

DONGYANG, China (Reuters) - It's the end of a school day in the eastern Chinese city of Dongyang, and eager parents collect their children after a hectic day of primary school.

Sales could begin in Beijing as early as next month.

The Irish prime minister says ahead of trade talks that the Republic of Ireland and China have a "surprisingly similar business culture".

There's a bear in the China shop. Goldman's calls the equity market's outlook the brightest in a generation.

Statt innerhalb der europäischen Topligen zu wechseln, folgt BVB-Stürmer Lucas Barrios im Sommer angeblich dem Ruf des Geldes.Foto: Witters

China is now the world's fastest growing market for smartphones and apps, according to new data from market research firm Flurry Analytics.

When Stephon Marbury came to the Chinese Basketball Association in 2010, it appeared to be a last-chance money grab for an NBA castaway whose skills -- and options -- were in precipitous decline. Those suspicions seemed to be confirmed after the Brooklyn, N.Y., native exhausted his welcome with his first two CBA teams.

The zoo is hoping Tian Tian and Yang Guang will mate after arriving in Scotland from China in December. Bosses said they were 'absolutely considering' recording a potential birth for a live audience.

Holiday Inn-parent IHG today announced the launch of Chinese hotel brand.

In China ist ein zehnjähriger Junge verhaftet worden, weil er ein anderes Kind bei einem Fußballspiel gegen den Kopf getreten hatte. Im Internet provozierte ein Video des Vorfalls heftige Reaktionen.

Nordkorea will zum 100. Geburtstag von Staatsgründer Kim Il Sung eine Rakete ins All schießen. Die Nachricht wurde international mit Besorgnis aufgenommen. Jetzt äußert sich sogar Bündnispartner China dazu öffentlich.

The radio program 'This American Life' says it is retracting an episode on conditions in an Apple factory in China after discovering it was ...

A coalition of 200 rights and aid groups urge Russia and China to back UN action against Syria, on the anniversary of the start of the uprising there.

China shocked the world this weekend when it announced its largest trade deficit in more than two decades.

Players on Georgetown’s men’s basketball team pointed to an unfortunate brawl on a good-will tour of China last summer for their strengthened bond and resurgence this season.

Le fonds souverain chinois CIC a reçu à la fin de l'an dernier 30 milliards de dollars pour investir en Europe, selon son directeur général adjoint Wang Jianxi cité lundi par le China Daily. China Investment Corporation (CIC) a été fondé en 2007 pour investir dans des entreprises étrangères une...

Some 40 years ago, a little blonde girl stood wide-eyed outside her home on a South African game reserve as a group of elephants grazed on the orange trees in front of her.

SHANGHAI (AP) -- "Beauty and the Beast" is heading to China. YOU On Demand, a major distributor of pay-per-view content in China, said Thursday it has signed an agreement with Disney Media Distribution to distribute films in the country....

Access to local factories makes China more appealing than Silicon Valley.

AFTER NEW economic links covering trade and investment were signed last night, Taoiseach Enda Kenny welcomed a new phase in the relationship between Ireland and China at a dinner at Dublin Castle in honour of the country’s vice- president, Xi Jinping.

Nach dem Syrien-Veto: Russland und China wollen keine Verantwortung übernehmen. Die Ex-Supermacht und der Aufsteiger suchen Macht durch Blockade, kommentiert J. Joffe.

Ein Gericht in China hat vier bekannte Schiedsrichter verurteilt. Das meldet die staatliche Nachrichtenagentur Xinhua. Unter ihnen ist der ehemalige WM Schiedsrichter Lu Jun (53). Er muss für fünfeinhalb Jahre ins Gefängnis. Lu soll sieben Spiele beeinflusst haben. Dafür hat er fast 100.000 Euro Bestechungsgeld angenommen.

Der als künftiger chinesischer Staatschef gehandelte Vizepräsident Xi Jinping hat sich bei US-Präsident Barack Obama vorgestellt. Obama forderte bei dem Treffen im Weißen Haus am Dienstag, dass sich China bei seinem wirtschaftlichen Aufstieg an die weltweiten Handelsregeln halten müsse. Außerdem sprach er das zwischen beiden Staaten heikle Thema der Menschenrechte an.

Amy Rosen: I to update an old-school favourite, green bean casserole, for a modern palate. With the basis being longbeans, I married the United States and China with little more than can of condensed mushroom soup

The owners of Heathrow have issued a new warning about the future of the airport after air traffic to China fell during January despite the Asian economy's rapid growth.

Kickbox-Weltmeisterin Nicole Trimmel bestreitet 2012 auch reine Boxkämpfe. Die 29-jährige Burgenländerin verzichtet Anfang März bei einem internationalen Turnier in Hamburg erstmals auf ihre Kicks und bestreitet eine Woche später beim Vienna Boxcup ihren ersten reinen Boxkampf in der Heimat. Auch eine Teilnahme an der Box-WM in China in diesem Jahr schließt Trimmel nicht aus.

Marg Helgenberger got her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Monday. Marg Helgenberger, a member of the original "CSI" cast, is leaving the show this month after 13 seasons.

In China hat das Jahr des Drachen begonnen. Der Lindwurm ist aber nicht nur in Asien ein sagenumwobenes Wesen. Wie gut kennen Sie sich mit den Feuerspeiern aus?

Die Vogelgrippe hat in China das zweite Todesopfer innerhalb eines Monats gefordert. Zwei weitere Menschen erlagen der Viruserkrankung 2012 in Kambodscha und Vietnam.

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- Forestry officials in central Myanmar have seized nearly 10,000 snakes in 400 crates that were to be smuggled to China....

Coldplay and Rihanna will unite for the first live performance of their song "Princess of China" at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 12th The song which appears on Coldplay's latest album Mylo Xyloto is not up for any awards though the British quartet is nominated...

Residents were angry about the severity of fine-particle pollution in the capital and the government’s lack of transparency.

L'opérateur utilisera les réseaux d'Orange pour viser en priorité la communauté chinoise.

The Crewe-based firm, whose cheapest model carries a £135,760 price tag, said global sales were up 37 per cent, with 7003 new Bentleys delivered.

Barely two weeks after the execution of an SA drug mule in China, three more South Africans have been arrested for drug trafficking.

Geoffrey Crothall, porte-parole de l’ONG China Labour Bulletin, analyse le mouvement social en cours.

The Year of the Dragon may herald firey times for China . . . and the rest of the world, writesCLIFFORD COONANin Beijing

BEIJING (Reuters) - When Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda arrives in China on Sunday, a new blockbuster movie will ensure that the foremost image of the Japanese in many Chinese people's minds will once again be of the country's brutal wartime misdeeds.

The IndyCar schedule will have a different look in 2012 with only four races slated for ovals and China hosting its first race.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Leaders from China and Japan will likely agree to work together to help maintain stability on the Korean peninsula following the death of North Korean ruler Kim Jong-il when they meet next week, but anything more than platitudes will be hard to come by. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will meet President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao in Beijing during a two-day trip ...

The actor looks to play a significant role in Chinese popular culture with the release of the film.

Christian Bale wollte in China einen Menschenrechts-Aktivisten besuchen, wurde jedoch von chinesischen Wachen daran gehindert.

"Batman" star Christian Bale, in the midst of promoting a film he made in China that some critics have called propaganda, was stopped trying to visit a blind activist living under house arrest -- with a CNN crew in tow.

Nicolas Anelka wechselt im Winter von Chelsea zu Shanghai Shenhua nach China. Der 32-Jährige erhält einen Zweijahresvertrag. Foto: Reuters

Der Klimagipfel in Durban droht zur Posse zu werden: Eigentlich sollten bis Freitag Ergebnisse erzielt werden, doch die USA und China blockieren weiterhin verbindliche Klimaschutzziele. Bundesumweltminister Röttgen wird ungeduldig.

Reporting from Sanhe, China -- If pandas weren't so darn cute, we wouldn't be up in the clouds at the edge of a mountain ravine slick with moss and mud, clinging for life to shoots of bamboo. And get this: There is almost zero chance that we'll actually see a panda. We keep our eyes on the ground, not just to keep from falling, but because the best we can hope for is to discover panda droppings...

DURBAN (Reuters) - The United States is sceptical that China's comments it could support a legally binding deal to cut its own greenhouse gas emissions marked a breakthrough in troubled climate...

Blog post by Flavia LanzaBios Vincent | The wall sounds The artworks of Bios Vincent stage the private and public subconsciousin the prestigious frame of the Palazzo Reale in Palermo.  Panels perforated by bullets of various caliber. Mapping of emotions and signs.Bios enters with this walls into the prestigious spaces of the museum to rebuild and protect memory. The spread of silence enables no...

Un problème de langue aurait pu déboucher sur un fâcheux incident, dans le ciel japonais. Un avion chinois de la compagnie China Eastern a décollé sans autorisation de l'aéroport d'Osaka, lundi dernier. Les pilotes n'auraient pas compris les instructions en...

The Times Editorial: The UN's top official for climate change, Christiana Figueres, has warned that finding a solution to the global warming crisis will require "nothing short of the most compelling energy, industrial and behavioural revolution that humanity has ever seen".

La amenaza comercial china.

Sperrholz aus Kanada und Russland, Stuhlsitze aus Tschechien, Holzprodukte aus China: Längst ist auch der Holzmarkt globalisiert. Wer beliefert Deutschland? Von A. Lang

Die deutschen Volleyballerinnen haben am Freitag den Olympia-Zug nach London verpasst - zumindest vorerst. Das DVV-Team verlor beim World Cup in Japan klar mit 0:3 gegen China und verspielte damit binnen 24 Stunden den zweiten "Matchball". Ein klarer Sieg über die Asiatinnen sowie die Mithilfe der USA wären nötig gewesen, um nach dem 2:3 gegen Japan am Vortag doch noch die direkte Qualifikation...

CHINA has issued a stern warning that housing extra US troops in the Northern Territory may not be in Australia's best interests.

Linz (OTS) - Was verbindet wohl Oberösterreich mit China? Mehr als man auf den ersten Blick denken mag. In der Ausstellung NI HAO LINZ wird der 300 Jahre alte Austausch zwischen dem Reich der Mitte und dem Land ob der Enns erlebbar gemacht. Vom ersten Chinesen, der 1780 in Nußdorf am ...

In this land where profit is sacred and wealth divine, the idea of change in the global economic pecking order seems to have inherent appeal.

China blasted off a new data relay satellite, Tianlian I-02, on Monday at the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan province. The new satellite will bolster the country's satellite communication network for space docking. The satellite was launched on a Long March-3C carrier rocket at 11:41 pm, sources at the center told Xinhua News Agency. The satellite separated ...

Jiuxiang is known as the museum of karst caves, which boasts its caves as the largest in scale and number and has the most wonderful in-cave scenes in China.

China was a global superpower for centuries... then the West took over.

China doubled the amount of energy generated from windmills last year, a report from the global wind industry said Wednesday.

On hearing the news that web-sites of several atheist foundations/NGOs have become victims of severe DDoS attacks, I could only think about one thing: it would be quite hard to blame these attacks on either China or Russia. From ZDNet Australia: The websites of the Atheist Foundation of Australia and the Global Atheist Convention were knocked offline yesterday due to a sustained distributed den...