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China climbed up the world rankings to 5th-largest outbound direct investor last year and there is still huge potential for a higher placing.
A total of 89 kidnapped infants were rescued and 369 suspects arrested in two major human trafficking cases this month.
Gaint panda Xinxin bites a board after finishing a "birthday cake" in Macao, South China, July 26, 2011. Xinxin spent the 3-year-old birthday here Tuesday.
China successfully launched an orbiter into space at 5:44 am Beijing Time Wednesday, as a part of its indigenous satellite navigation and positioning network known as Beidou, or Compass system, sources with the launch center said.
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Gaint panda Xinxin bites a board after finishing a "birthday cake" in Macao, South China, July 26, 2011. Xinxin spent the 3-year-old birthday here Tuesday.
SHENZHEN: Gao Chen is typical of a growing trend - she is educated, successful and married to a husband who has a mistress.
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Gaint panda Xinxin bites a board after finishing a "birthday cake" in Macao, South China, July 26, 2011. Xinxin spent the 3-year-old birthday here Tuesday.
A 23-year-old woman has become famous online as the "thumb girl", after she launched a micro blog where she hopes to collect 1,000 pictures of thumbs to support her request for local government to publicize the feasibility report for the project.
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Gaint panda Xinxin bites a board after finishing a "birthday cake" in Macao, South China, July 26, 2011. Xinxin spent the 3-year-old birthday here Tuesday.
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Gaint panda Xinxin bites a board after finishing a "birthday cake" in Macao, South China, July 26, 2011. Xinxin spent the 3-year-old birthday here Tuesday.
Tibetan Airlines, the first airline based in Tibet autonomous region, commenced flight operations on Tuesday morning in Lhasa.
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Gaint panda Xinxin bites a board after finishing a "birthday cake" in Macao, South China, July 26, 2011. Xinxin spent the 3-year-old birthday here Tuesday.
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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Chinese economists believe that a US debt default is unlikely, but they warned that the US government should reduce excessive expenditures and avoid a deeper economic crisis.
As China's house prices have begun to stall against a background of intensifying government curbs - some real estate brokerages have received an increasing number of enquiries from moderately well-off citizens about investing in overseas properties.
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Forty-nine newspaper groups can go public gradually after completing reform of their operating assets and 10 others are making preparations this year.
Dubai's debt problems may be sending world markets sliding, but the tumble in stocks in Shanghai and Hong Kong is not expected to extend into this week, according to financial analysts.
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Instead of lying low to ride out the economic tsunami, Bosideng is moving to consolidate its lead in branding, ferreting out overseas acquisition opportunities and improving quality.
China will increase its financial support on enterprises to invest overseas and widen overseas investment scope.
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President Hu Jintao wrapped up an airtight two-day inspection tour of quake-ravaged Sichuan province yesterday, showing concern for the survivors and surveying the reconstruction work as winter sets in.
While developed countries are busy shutting down incinerators, Chinese governors seem to see burning rubbish as the last resort in a losing battle.
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Nationally unified dairy product safety standards will be announced in the later half of 2009, after melamine-tainted milk killed six infants and sickened about 30,000 others last year.
China's two key price barometers, the producer price index and the consumer price index, are likely to register declines in February, analysts said.
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Smoke rises from the wreckage of a Hercules C-130 aircraft after it crashed while trying to land in Guelmim in this still image taken from a July 26, 2011 video by Morocco TV. At least 78 people were killed on Tuesday when the Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, the military said in a statement carried by the state news agency.
President Barack Obama's Democrats and their Republican rivals were further apart than ever on Tuesday in an impasse over the government's debt limit as investors braced for a looming US default and downgrade.
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Smoke rises from the wreckage of a Hercules C-130 aircraft after it crashed while trying to land in Guelmim in this still image taken from a July 26, 2011 video by Morocco TV. At least 78 people were killed on Tuesday when the Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, the military said in a statement carried by the state news agency.
A large section of the roof of a football stadium collapsed during off-season construction work Thursday, killing one person and leaving 10 hospitalized.
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Smoke rises from the wreckage of a Hercules C-130 aircraft after it crashed while trying to land in Guelmim in this still image taken from a July 26, 2011 video by Morocco TV. At least 78 people were killed on Tuesday when the Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, the military said in a statement carried by the state news agency.
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Smoke rises from the wreckage of a Hercules C-130 aircraft after it crashed while trying to land in Guelmim in this still image taken from a July 26, 2011 video by Morocco TV. At least 78 people were killed on Tuesday when the Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, the military said in a statement carried by the state news agency.
A published presidential historian was one of two men caught with millions of dollars in documents from the Maryland Historical Society, including some signed by President Abraham Lincoln.
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Smoke rises from the wreckage of a Hercules C-130 aircraft after it crashed while trying to land in Guelmim in this still image taken from a July 26, 2011 video by Morocco TV. At least 78 people were killed on Tuesday when the Moroccan military transport plane crashed into a mountain in the south of the country during bad weather, the military said in a statement carried by the state news agency.
China and Japan agreed to maintain stability in the East China Sea and promote the early establishment of a maritime liaison system, as the two sides resumed their bilateral vice-ministerial defense dialogue on Tuesday in Tokyo.
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The best thing Messi did in the 90 minutes against Colombia was the brilliant through-ball to Ezequiel Lavezzi, but that's not the role Batista really has for Messi. He wants to see Messi receiving such passes and putting away the goals himself.
After dominating the 2008 Beijing Olympics with 51 gold medals in front of a raucous home crowd, China has introduced innovative training programs so it can continue that momentum at next year's London Olympic Games.
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US Olympic skier Jeret "Speedy" Peterson has committed suicide in Utah, days after his arrest on suspicion of drunken driving, the US Ski and Snowboard Association said on Tuesday.
David Beckham took to Facebook on Sunday to introduce to the world his new baby daughter, Harper Seven Beckham, the latest addition to his growing brood.
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Steven Gerrard saved Liverpool from another damaging Premier League defeat on Monday when his controversial penalty earned a 2-2 home draw with Birmingham City.
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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World number nine Mardy Fish saved two match points in recording a 3-6 7-6 6-2 victory over fellow American John Isner to defend his Atlanta Tennis Championship title on Sunday.
The prospect of renewing her long rivalry with Serena Williams has provided Maria Sharapova with added incentive to win this week's Stanford Classic.
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National Basketball Association superstar Kobe Bryant will not see a doctor about his hyper-extended right knee and is feeling fine as the Los Angeles Lakers prepare to open their season next week.
The losing streak felt like "two or three months" to Dirk Nowitzki, so the Dallas Mavericks didn't mind having to go a few extra minutes to end it.
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Yao Ming retired from the Chinese national basketball team Monday at an unprecedented farewell ceremony held by the Chinese sports governing body, and was highly praised by State Councilor Liu Yandong.
In a wide room scattered with ping-pong balls, Paul Drinkhall, Britain's No 1 Olympic table tennis hope, is preparing for his finest moment in a game that has been traditionally dominated by Chinese players.
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Kelly Osbourne and Reg Traviss, the former boyfriend of Amy Winehouse, attended her funeral at Golders Green Crematorium, in north London July 26, 2011.
Irish rockers U2 and American grunge band Pearl Jam will have the Toronto International Film Festival rocking this year, while George Clooney and Brad Pitt bring some A-List star power to the event that helps launch Hollywood's Oscar season.
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Pop singer Katy won a leading nine nominations for the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards on Wednesday, reducing eccentric superstar Lady Gaga to also-ran status with just three nods.
British journalist whose dogged reporting uncovered phone hacking that rocked News Corp and Rupert Murdoch, will write a book about the scandal.
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The movie "The Viral Factor" will premiere during the Spring Festival in 2012. It is the first collaboration between Jay Chou and Nicholas Tse.
"Crazy, Stupid, Love" features an awful lot of moments that clang in a contrived, feel-good manner. And it's not so crazy or stupid afterall.
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South Korean pop group Girls' Generation perform during their concert at Olympic Gymnasium in Seoul.
Russian singer Vitas will host a concert at the Great Hall of People in Beijing on October 4, 2011.
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The Los Angeles Lakers' MVP guard, Kobe Bryant, wants to take on pop star Jay Chou, from Taiwan, after beating him on the basketball court in a TV commercial.
Classic comedies make their Blue-ray debut in the next two weeks, including "Animal House" and "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."
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British-born painter, writer and sculptor Leonora Carrington, considered one of the last of the original surrealists, has died, Mexico's National Arts Council confirmed Thursday. She was 94.
Portraits of three different lovers of 20th century master Pablo Picasso fetched the three highest prices at a London auction at Christie's on Tuesday, the first in a key series of art sales over the coming weeks.
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Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz ride a motorbike on the set during the filming of "Knight & Day".
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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Actress Megan Fox poses at the 13th annual GQ magazine "Men of the Year" party in Los Angeles November 18, 2008.
A network of sinophiles combines delicious food and good company to plug Britons' 'knowledge gap' of the Middle Kingdom.
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Berlin Fashion Week Spirng/Summer 2012 in Berlin
A model presents a creation from Blue Man's collection during Fashion Rio Summer 2012 in Rio de Janeiro, June 1, 2011.
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Rome's largest taxi cooperative is trying to improve the bad name of the city's cabbies, notorious among tourists to one of the world's best loved cities.
Jonathan Littell, who won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2006 for "The Kindly Ones," has picked up another prize for the same work -- the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award.
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A special year-end menu featuring indulgent and decadent Chinese delicacies for the fall and winter.
The restaurants at the two year old Radisson Shanghai Hong Quan, including the 24-hour buffet at the "Terrace", are the responsibility of Manchester, British Executive Chef Daniel Turner.
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Older women who eat more chocolate are less likely to develop heart problems over a nearly 10-year-period, new study findings report.
In the future, high-tech bandages will change color if an infection has set in, ending the hassle of having to remove dressings to check on the healing process, according to a team of German scientists.
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Nestled between the Andes and the Pacific, the sparse desert surrounding this outpost in southern Peru looks like one of the world's most desolate areas.
Founded in 1630, Boston is one of the United States' oldest cities. It is home to historical sites and with 50 colleges and universities in the area it has a lively, youthful feel.
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A Kermit the Frog puppet makes its way down 7th avenue on the Sesame Street float during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, November 26, 2009.
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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Firms recruiting top students will be an area of intense competition between China and the US.
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Man questions rescue operation 
