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China Plans to Build the World’s Largest Skyscraper in Just 90 Days
If only constructing a skyscraper were as easy as stacking Legos Then we’d be throwing together 200story towers in a matter of weeks just clicking blocks...
Controversial Map on China’s Passport Angers Its Neighbors
China's territorial disputes with its neighbors are nothing new, but Beijing has found a new way to infuriate its neighbors with its latest passport for Chinese...
China Airport Boom: Will There Be a Bust?
China’s civil-aviation industry has been developing at a double-digit clip over the past three decades, but growth is now soaring to new, potentially dangerous,...
Searching for News, Journalists Covering China’s Leadership Transition Get Hats Instead
We foreign journalists in Beijing have received our beige baseball caps emblazoned with the English words “Press Center of 18th National Congress of CPC” (CPC...
In Ohio, China is a Potent Campaign Weapon
Worthington, Ohio When Mitt Romney comes to Ohio, he likes to talk about a far-away threat that hangs over anxious crowds. “Look, we can compete with any nation...
Big Exercise, Low Profile, In Japan-China Dispute
TOKYO – One of the largestever joint training exercises between US and Japanese troops is underway in and around the Japanese home islands – but you won’t hear a...
Bad Eggs: Another Fake-Food Scandal Rocks China
In the latest food scandal to emerge in China, customers are being duped by fake eggs made out of resin, starch and pigments.
China’s Economy: What the Tourist Boom Tells Us
Chinese travelers looking for a relaxing ‘Golden Week’ may have been disappointed. Record numbers set out for this month’s national holiday, creating a human...
China Celebrates Author Mo Yan’s Nobel
Mo Yan, the Chinese author of earthy but surreal novels including Red Sorghum and Big Breasts and Wide Hips, was awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature...
Basketball-Playing Grandma Becomes China’s Internet Darling
On the average day, on a university campus in Eastern China, a woman runs through her usual exercise routing. She plays basketball like she has every day for the...
In Online Poll, the World (Except for China) Votes Obama
Romney, who once called the Chinese "cheats," has an unlikely foreign ally according to an MSN reader survey.
China Announces Plans For Party Congress and Prosecution of Bo Xilai
Bo Xilai, the ambitious Chinese official whose rise was upended by his wife’s murder of an English businessman, has been kicked out of the Communist Party and...
China’s Heir Apparent Xi Jinping Reappears in Public After A Two-Week Absence
Never have activities commemorating China’s National Science Popularization Day taken on such significance. On Sept. 15, two weeks after China’s Vice President...
China’s Response to the U.S. Political Conventions? Big Yawn
As the American political convention season chugs along, what has been the response in China, a country that reliably emerges as a whipping boy for both...
China’s Confucius Prize Announces Its Wacky 2012 Short List
Two years ago, as the Norwegian Nobel Committee prepared to award the Peace Prize to imprisoned Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo, an obscure mainland group launched its...
Gulag Reform: Will China Stop Sending Its Dissidents to Labor Camps?
The phrase laojiao (劳教) doesn’t carry the same resonance as the word gulag. But this brutal Chinese system of re-education through labor isn’t so different from...
China’s Most Wanted: How the Cops Got a Murderous Serial Bank Robber
Before Zhou Kehua became one of China‘s most wanted fugitives, he enjoyed reading and collecting detective novels. When he was short of cash as a teenager, he...
China’s Millennials: Get Rich or Save the Planet?
There is no serious doubt that the world is getting warmer and warmer, and there is no doubt either that many once-poor nations — especially China, India and...
Report: China Buys 25% of the World’s Luxury Goods
In Hong Kong, the sight of Chinese tourists lining up outside luxury brands like Hermès and Louis Vuitton is no longer something to marvel at. According to a new...
Bridge Collapse in China Raises Questions About Safety of Country’s Road Construction Boom
China’s roads are notoriously dangerous. That point was reiterated Sunday as 47 people died in two traffic accidents, including 36 who were killed when a sleeper...
