CHINA
Canadian mining company Teck Resources Ltd. said Friday it is selling a 17 percent stake to China Investment Corp. for $1.5 billion in a bid to reduce its debt.
More than 50,000 people have been forced to leave their homes after heavy rains for three straight days in some areas of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.
Developed countries' proposals to impose "carbon tariffs" on imports will violate WTO rules and go against the spirit of the Kyoto Protocol, the Ministry of Commerce said Friday.
Cartoon exhibition held in Shanghai
Despite the coordinated demand slump in the US and European countries, China's exports could gain traction from trading with major developing countries in the post crisis era, Yi Xiaozhun, deputy minister of commerce, said Saturday in Beijing.
Lavender flower harvest in Xinjiang
Traditional opera performed in Palace Museum of Taipei
Tens of thousands of people from Hong Kong offered happy birthday greetings yesterday, joining a parade of dragon dancers and a marching symphony orchestra, as the city marked the 12th anniversary of its return to the motherland
A Dutchman's Chinese village resort
Although traditional attitudes towards homosexuality in China's major cities are rapidly changing fueled by the rise of a new generation, in rural China it still remains a taboo topic.
Market vendor's real selling point: he's single
The Public Security Bureau in east China's Wenzhou city announced yesterday that a police officer was dismissed from his post after the bureau verified netizens' claims that he had used a police car to walk a dog.
A Namibian model in China
Standing before you is a housewife, a six-year-old child, a prostitute and a homosexual lawyer. All of them are HIV positive. Ask yourself, if there were some way you could magically cure one of them, which would you save?