Backing Brazil beyond Olympics

Just as global companies such as Caterpillar Inc, Alstom Group and Siemens AG injected billions of dollars into China's infrastructure over the past three decades, their Chinese counterparts are now committed to Brazil's development.

Ping-pong Olympic Champion in dispute with club over unpaid bonuses

Zhang Jike, 2012 table tennis Olympic champion, and his table tennis club were both fined $8,055 after Zhang failed to appear for a league match.

Want to divorce? It's a long line in Guangdong

Increase in divorce rate is putting strain on marriage registration offices, forcing some couples to wait for as long as one month.

Beijing's Chaoyang district: World’s 'fifth largest intelligence agency'

China's Internet users have amusingly nicknamed residents of Beijing's Chaoyang district as a major intelligence agency after CIA, KGB, Mossad and MI6.

Doubts over heroes' authenticity grow with widening Internet access

An opinion leader on China's Twitter-like Weibo was taken to court after joking about the heroic self-sacrifice of a Chinese war martyr.

新型亚洲安全观(xin xing ya zhou an quan guan)

New Asian security concept

China and Japan

Talks should take place between Beijing and Tokyo to forge a mechanism to manage the crisis over the overlapping air defense identification zones in the East China Sea.

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Ferry disaster

Big Beijing

Beijing has launched an initiative to integrate with neighboring Tianjin municipality and Hebei province.

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Crimea

There has been upheaval in Ukraine since President Viktor Yanukovych's government shelved plans to sign a pact with the European Union sparking confrontation between protesters and police that resulted in death and injury.