A diary manuscript from 80 years ago provides new-found evidence to the grudge between two Chinese iconic writers.
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Experts agree the e-book market has huge potential in China but is being undermined by rampant pirate operations.
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Huang Tingxin, the Chinese mainland's last veteran of the D-Day campaign to end the Nazi domination of Europe in 1944 has died. He was 91.
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Webchats with foreign envoys in China.
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A 107-year-old woman shocked her neighbors in Yichuan county, Henan province, when she recently started teething again.
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China's consumer price index dipped 0.5 percent year on year in Oct, a decline 0.3 percentage points lower than that in Septemper. Foreign Trade Drops 10.7%
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China's National Development and Reform Commission Thursday announced a rise in the price of electricity for non-residential use by 2.8 fen ($0.4 cents) per kWh on average nationwide, as of Friday.
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South China's Guangdong province is expected to achieve economic growth of 9 percent this year, higher than the target of 8.5 percent.
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Central Huijin is buying a 38.8 percent stake in New China Life Insurance Co Ltd from Insurance Protection Fund, the latter said in a statement yesterday.
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Surging expenses for game promotions and dwindling advertising revenues could weigh on NetEase.com Inc as the online gaming operator grapples with fierce competition in the crowded industry.
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While recession-hit consumers in the United States and Europe are scaling back on showy purchases, Chinese consumers are flocking to domestic retailers.
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China's total premium income of 2008 reached 978.41 billion yuan ($143 billion), making it the sixth largest country in terms of premium income.
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Shuttle Atlantis astronaut Randy Bresnik can be forgiven if he's having a tough time focusing on work -- his wife is due to give birth on Friday to a baby girl.
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Concerns over the environment and terrorism have not only affected how people lived in the past decade but also their language, with "global warming" and "9/11" topping a list of the most used words of the 2000s.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in as Afghan president for the second term on Thursday.
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College students ditched class, employees skipped work and some huddled in the cold overnight just to make sure they get an orange wristband that would let them meet Sarah Palin.
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Dozens of people staged a sit-in on a highway in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday after the army accidentally hit a house with an artillery shell, killing six people, while it was attacking suspected militant hide-outs.
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France striker Thierry Henry admits he intentionally handled the ball to set up William Gallas' equalizing goal, sending France to the World Cup at Ireland's expense after an intense 1-1 draw on Wednesday.
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Jenson Button faces the toughest challenge of his Formula One career when he joins Lewis Hamilton at McLaren next season and he knows it.
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Fit-again Alessandro del Piero is keen to get his campaign underway after playing just 10 minutes with Juventus so far this season but the captain may have to take up an unfamiliar role to get back into the team.
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Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will step on board the riverboat to the ATP World Tour Finals on Sunday with the world No 1 ranking in their sights.
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Alex Rodriguez grabbed the World Series trophy and wouldn't let go.
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The struggling Shanghai Sharks basketball club received a much-needed boost yesterday when it was confirmed captain Liu Wei had chosen to stay with the team instead of transferring to Bayi.
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Hollywood watchers think vampire romance "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" could take a nearly $100 million bite from movie theater box offices.
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Madonna's son Rocco and David Beckham's son Cruz are predicted to become the richest celebrities in Britain when they grow up.
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Fans have been mooning over all things "Twilight" since the vampire-romance film bowed so bloody well exactly a year ago.
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Avril Lavigne has been spotted out with American actor Wilmer Valderrama, who has previously dated Lindsay Lohan, Mandy Moore and Hilary Duff.
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The late TV anchor Luo Jing won the Life Achievement Award given by Golden Microphone Awards - the top honor for China's TV anchors.
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An oil painting of a Peking Opera character is featured at the 12th annual West Lake Art Expo in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, November 19, 2009.
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Ashton Kutcher, the executive producer of new TV show 'The Beautiful Life' starring Mischa Barton, ''can't wait'' for people to see how strong Mischa's performance is.
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From the merely unpleasant to the borderline criminal, ugly buildings somehow manage to pop up even in the prettiest cities.
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Russia's top health official has proposed that the country's fashion designers create trendy face masks to combat swine flu, his spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
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New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world divided up among a half-dozen species of unusual and perhaps intelligent crocodiles, researchers reported on Thursday.
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While the United States president's maiden China visit is now history, restaurants across Beijing still have Barack Obama fever. Chefs have rustled up a feast fit for the president to mark the event.
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Low-carb and high-carb diets work equally well for maintaining weight loss, Australian researchers report.
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For decades, Newcastle upon Tyne was blackened by coal dust and known around the world for its clanking shipyards and smoke-belching factories.
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Treatments for erectile dysfunction such as the hugely popular drug Viagra do not appear to pose long-term damage to men's sight, a new study has shown.
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