China has potential to be leader in global sustainability
China, with its enormous cities and vast countryside, is a potential star in the ongoing global drama of slashing carbon emissions.
China: 442,000 foreign-funded companies set up by end of July
442,000 foreign-invested companies had been set up in China by the end of July, an increase of 0.26 percent from a month earlier.
Red October: China to overtake US as world’s largest oil importer – EIA
Fueled by a rising population and industrial production, China’s net oil imports are set to outpace that of today’s leader – the USA – in October 2013.
Murdoch’s Wall Street Journal’s Entire Chinese Website Blocked in China
Access to the Wall Street Journal's Chinese-language edition, cn.wsj.com, has been entirely blocked since Aug. 2 in China.
China’s yuan gains 34% against USD in past 8 years
The Chinese currency Renminbi, or the yuan, has appreciated 34 percent against the U.S. dollar since the exchange rate reform began eight years ago.
China- ASEAN trade to hit 500 bln USD
Bilateral trade between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) will reach 500 billion U.S. dollars in 2015.
China’s Rise: Singapore Banks to roll out more Renminbi Products
Expectations that Singapore will have an expanded role in the offshore yuan business have accelerated local banks' move into new products for the Chinese currency.
President Xi Jinping urges China to keep the color ‘Red’ and never change
Chinese President Xi Jinping has urged the 85 million members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) to work hard and serve the people wholeheartedly to "ensure the color of red China will never change."
Chinese jihadists back from Syria
On the eve of the riots anniversary in Xinjiang (formerly East Turkestan), a series of attacks, on 26 June 2013, against public buildings in the township of Luqkun took the lives of 24 people. China is not happy.
China executes female Filipino drug trafficker
A 35-year-old Filipino woman convicted of drug trafficking in China was executed in that country on Wednesday, the Philippine government said.
Elderly Rights: New China law says children ‘must visit parents’, Neglect face fines or...
Grown children in China must visit their parents or potentially face fines or jail, a new law that came into effect on Monday says. China's new "Elderly Rights Law" deals with the growing problem of lonely elderly people by ordering adult children to visit their ageing parents. The law says adults should care about their parents "spiritual needs" and "never neglect or snub elderly people".
China’s Premier urges basic medical services for all its citizens
China's Premier Li Keqiang has urged that a basic medical care system be provided to all its citizens as a public service.
