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Slower Chinese growth adds to pressure on leaders
Global economic malaise has knocked the stuffing out of Luo Yan's business making toy animals. Sales of Hello Kitty dolls and plush rabbits have ...
China questions Japan rule over Okinawa
China is trying to strengthen its claim on tiny, uninhabited, Japanese-controlled islands by raising questions about the much larger Okinawa chain ...
China tightens grip on discourse, ideology
Chinese authorities have shut down or frozen the microblog accounts of several prominent liberal intellectuals and harassed rights lawyers lobbying ...
China investigates top planning official for graft
Chinese authorities have launched an investigation into a powerful economic planning official accused by a prominent journalist of corruption, the ...
China's April inflation rises to 2.4 percent
China's inflation rose slightly in April amid concern about the strength of its economic recovery. Consumer prices rose 2.4 percent over a year ...
Netanyahu: Jewish people capable of own defense
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited a Shanghai neighborhood where European Jews found refuge during World War II, saying Israel's strong ...
China hosting both Palestinian, Israeli leaders
China is hosting both the Palestinian and Israeli leaders this week in a sign of its desire for a larger role in the Middle East.
HK opposes Sichuan quake aid over corruption fears
Hong Kong lawmakers fiercely opposed a plan Wednesday to donate money to a Chinese provincial government for earthquake victims, underlining ...
Japan war shrine reflects ruling party nationalism
Visits by Cabinet ministers and lawmakers to a shrine honoring Japan's war dead, including 14 World War II leaders convicted of atrocities, signal ...
Sea disputes, NKorea in spotlight at ASEAN summit
Worried that long-seething rifts could escalate over the South China Sea, Southeast Asian leaders are expected this week to press China to agree to ...
Blackstone founder creates $300M China scholarship
A U.S. private equity tycoon announced Sunday the establishment of a $300 million endowed scholarship program in China for students from around the ...
Boston bomb victim attended elite school in China
The Chinese student killed in the Boston Marathon blasts grew up in an intellectual family in a northeastern Chinese city with gritty, industrial ...
Death spotlights abuses in China party graft probe
Yu Qiyi had a promising career in a government investment company when he disappeared on his way home from a business trip March 1. Thirty-eight days ...
Analysis: Beijing to US on North Korea _ talk
Embedded within Chinese leaders' convoluted, yet vague statements to Washington about North Korea is a simple message: Talk with Pyongyang. U.S.
Kerry heads to East Asia, seeks help on NKorea
John Kerry had been secretary of state for little more than a week when North Korea tested a nuclear bomb. He gathered top aides together for a ...
China's ex-train boss charged in bribery case
The man who spearheaded China's showcase bullet train network has been charged with taking bribes and abusing his power, two years after he was ousted ...
Admiral says US ready if North Korea strikes
U.S. defenses could intercept a ballistic missile launched by North Korea if it decides to strike, the top American military commander in the Pacific ...
China's March inflation eases to 2.1 percent
China's inflation declined in March, easing pressure on consumers but fueling questions about the strength of recovery in the world's second-biggest ...
Foreign investors to China's Xi: Cut the red tape
Major multinational companies appealed gingerly to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday to reduce barriers to doing business in China's heavily ...
SKorea: 'Indication' NKorea prepping for nuke test
South Korea's point man on North Korea said Monday there is an "indication" that Pyongyang is preparing for a fourth nuclear test, a day after another ...
China's Xi offers to reduce friction over hotspots
With pressure growing on Beijing to get North Korea to step back from its war-like footing, Chinese President Xi Jinping said that no one country ...
Calif. governor looks to China for investments
California Gov. Jerry Brown has designs on building some of the most expensive public works projects in the nation and wants to keep the state moving ...
China: Landslide buries 83 in Tibet gold mine area
No signs of life have been detected at a gold mining site in a mountainous area of Tibet more than 24 hours after a massive landslide buried 83 ...
China's first lady serenaded Tiananmen troops
A photo of China's new first lady Peng Liyuan in younger days, singing to martial-law troops following the 1989 bloody military crackdown on ...
BRICS plan development bank to fund infrastructure
Leaders of five of the world's emerging economic powers agreed Wednesday to create a development bank to help fund their $4.5 trillion infrastructure ...