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09 Sep 10
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Video: U.S. Officials Meet Chinese President Chinese President Hu Jintao met with top White House officials in a bid to smooth tensions between the two countries. |
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08 Sep 10
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China’s Wheat Newbies Attract Glares When a foreign upstart comes traipsing into a local industry, the initial curiosity can quickly turn into unwelcome attention, especially when the market in question is a centuries-old, $36 billion one. |
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08 Sep 10
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Video: Beijing Suits Up for Health Push Chinese authorities are reviving mass calisthenics as part of a new government health campaign, broadcasting daily routines over the radio. |
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07 Sep 10
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The Smurfs Smurf Into China A new wave of blue-collar workers is joining the push to develop Western China: the Smurfs. |
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07 Sep 10
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Hon Hai Reconsiders Danwei China's largest private-sector employer is moving to abandon its quasi-socialist baggage -- but it may prove tough to offload. |
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07 Sep 10
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Hudec: The Architect Who Made Shanghai Much of Shanghai's architecture draws reference from Ladislav Hudec, a Slovak who arrived as a World War I refugee. A new film chronicles his life in the city. |
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07 Sep 10
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Who Saved China From Imperial Japan? Taiwan and China have managed to put a lot of bad blood behind them lately, but they're still having trouble agreeing on history. |
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06 Sep 10
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Huang Guangyu’s Farewell Letter Huang Guangyu, once China’s richest man, couldn't begin his jail term for the next 14 years without saying a few parting words in a public letter published in a leading Chinese magazine. |
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06 Sep 10
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Ex-Googler Aims for China’s Mobile Users Ex-Google China President Kai-Fu Lee is out to prove that China can be innovative, and he's starting with two projects that take aim at the country's massive mobile-subscriber population. |
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06 Sep 10
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John Woo Honored at Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival honored veteran director John Woo at a star-filled celebration, awarding him with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. |
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06 Sep 10
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In China, Even Small Cities Spend Big A new survey into consumer behavior in China overturns a commonly held belief: China’s biggest spenders live in big cities…and small towns, too. |
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06 Sep 10
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Bumpy Months Ahead for U.S. and China Diplomats in Washington and Beijing won't be having a restful five months. |
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06 Sep 10
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China Needn’t Fear BHP Buying Potash, Exec Says Investors are keen for signs of whether China fears a BHP Billiton takeover of Potash Corp. enough to try to disrupt it. One industry executive says Beijing need not worry. |
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06 Sep 10
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App Makers Struggle in China Mobile-app developer 9thQ, like many in China, is faced with a dilemma: While it is more adapted to the Chinese market, it has to release its products on overseas platforms like Apple's App Store or Google's Android Market. |
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03 Sep 10
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Why Settling Trade In Yuan Matters China's central bank shed some light on the benefits of letting companies in China settle bills with their business partners abroad in yuan. |
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03 Sep 10
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Sony Ericsson Doesn’t Fear Chinese Knock-off Phones Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson doesn’t think knock-off Chinese phones are harming its market share, but Chinese handset makers will be “serious” competitors long-term, the company’s chief executive said in Beijing this week. |
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03 Sep 10
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High Hopes for Taiwanese Little Leaguers The high hopes for Taiwan's Little League team may have been dashed over the weekend when it lost in extra innings to Japan, but the team will have an even bigger chance next year, when a new Little League World Championship is held in Taipei. |
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03 Sep 10
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China’s Food Safety Challenges Sino-American cooperation to increase product safety is increasing, but this does not relieve concern about the safety of food and other Chinese exports to the U.S., Stanley Lubman writes. |
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02 Sep 10
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A Shan by Any Other Name What's in a name? If you live in the Shan family village in Shandong province, a Chinese character so rare that computer systems used to issue official documents can't render it. |
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02 Sep 10
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Microsoft on Bing, Piracy, Xbox in China Microsoft's chief executive for Greater China talks about how Bing competes with Google and Baidu, and how Microsoft can catch up with Apple in the smartphone race. |
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02 Sep 10
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PBOC’s Hu on the Yuan, U.S. and Global Economy Hu Xiaolian, deputy governor of the People's Bank of China, discusses China's yuan plans and how to rebalance the global economy. |
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02 Sep 10
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Mongolia Weighs Wind for China Mongolia, one day, hopes to export more than just coal to neighboring China. |
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02 Sep 10
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Shanghai’s Typhoon, Like a Snow-Free Snow Day It was a first day of school the way Bart Simpson would like it -- canceled. |
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02 Sep 10
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Chinese-American Rapper MC Jin Discovers God, Cantonese Chinese-American rapper MC Jin made a splash in America with appearances on BET. Now he's living in Hong Kong and mastering hip-hop in another language. |
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02 Sep 10
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Criminals See Opportunity in…Rice? If every criminal leaves a telltale trail, the forests and beaches on Vietnam's China border could be lined with the dull gold husks of rice. |
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02 Sep 10
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The Return of the China Traffic Jam It would appear that reports of the demise of China's biggest traffic jam were premature. |
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02 Sep 10
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Bus Hijacking Victims’ Bodies Mixed Up The Philippine government suffered another stumble over last week's hostage crisis, as authorities sent some Hong Kong victims' bodies to the wrong families. |
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01 Sep 10
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Markets Ignore China Rumor (for a Change) Rumors that China's central bank chief defected to the U.S. after losing $430 billion amount to one of the more outlandish bits of balderdash to emerge in recent memory from the swamp of China speculation. This time, though, financial markets didn't go... |
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01 Sep 10
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Okada’s Family Connection Little noted in the discussion of Okada's weekend talk with Jiabao was the fact that Okada himself is not exactly a stranger to the issues foreign businesses face in China. |
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01 Sep 10
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Moto Out-Apps Apple in China Motorola seems to be trying in earnest to do things right in China, where it has lost significant market-share in recent years. |
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31 Aug 10
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Taiwan and China Work on Their Thesaurus China and Taiwan's cultural differences have grown during their years of isolation. Exhibit A: their written languages. |
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31 Aug 10
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China, Here Comes Fight Club The country that brought the world martial arts is about to get a taste of American-style extreme fighting, with the introduction of the Ultimate Fighting Championship organization in Asia. |
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30 Aug 10
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A Mid-Autumn Gift From Wen Premier Wen Jiabao has just given Chinese workers at Japanese factories a mid-Autumn festival gift to go along with their mooncakes. He's told their Japanese bosses to pay them more. |
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30 Aug 10
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Apple’s Glass Temple, Made in China The Shanghai Apple store's atrium foyer is a crystalline sign of the times: It was made entirely in China, establishing a fresh benchmark on workmanship for the world's largest glass industry. |
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30 Aug 10
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Was Essay a Bank Chief’s Plea for Reform? Bank of China Chairman Xiao Gang's essay, "Don't Blame the Government," reads like a veiled criticism of a financial system that naturally encourages binge lending and misallocation of resources. |
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29 Aug 10
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Hong Kong Hits the Streets Over Manila Thousands of Hong Kong residents gathered in the city's Victoria Park Sunday to take part in an afternoon rally and march to honor the eight victims killed in a bus hostage crisis last week while vacationing in Manila. |
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27 Aug 10
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Shining Light On China’s ‘Gray Income’ If Chinese people don't trust the figures generated by their National Bureau of Statistics, they may have only themselves to blame. |
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27 Aug 10
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Huawei Embraces Android in New Smartphone Huawei plans to unveil its latest smartphone running on Google's Android operating system next week as it looks to beef up its portfolio of high-end handsets. |
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27 Aug 10
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Limits to the Banking Shell Game China's financial system sometimes resembles a shell game, with assets shifted between institutions. But one report suggests Beijing thinks there are limits to that approach when it comes to an upcoming bond issue. |
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27 Aug 10
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Million-Dollar Stamps Head to Auction When Phila China's Anna Lee first saw an unusual sheet of Taiwan's first postage stamps, she had to catch her breath. To Chinese collectors, it was like seeing Halley's Comet. |
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27 Aug 10
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Mad About Mooncakes Mid-Autumn Festival -- this year it falls on Sept. 22 -- is mooncake season and each year brings a new crop. From the traditional -- lotus-seed or custard cream -- to chocolate, or even durian-cream, fillings, here are a few from this year's batch. |
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27 Aug 10
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As Potash Drama Unfolds, China Flogs Fertilizers BHP Billiton's bid for Potash Corp. isn't the only big thing happening in fertilizer these days. As global attention focuses on that takeover battle, Chinese officials are urging greater use of fertilizers to enhance this year's rice output. |
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27 Aug 10
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EHi Looks to Untangle Traffic Jams in China Ray Zhang, CEO of eHi Car Rental, thinks China's traffic problems can be ameliorated by promoting a car-sharing culture. |
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27 Aug 10
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Spending by Women Jumps Despite concerns about China's consumer spending, a new study suggests that women in Beijing and Shanghai are pulling their weight. |
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26 Aug 10
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Fraud Case Shows Credit Boom’s Dark Side A massive fraud trial that opened in Beijing this week is a reminder of the worrisome supervisory cracks in a Chinese banking system that experienced a flood of credit last year. |
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26 Aug 10
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In Hong Kong, Tributes and Backlash Follow Hostage Deaths Hostage victims' bodies arrived in Hong Kong as the city continued to mourn the hostage crisis. |
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26 Aug 10
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Tencent Extends China Reach With Comsenz Buy Already a giant, Chinese Internet company Tencent Holdings looks set to further extend the wide reach of its services in China after saying it will acquire Beijing-based Comsenz, a provider of Bulletin Board System and social-networking software. |
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26 Aug 10
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Mixed Grade for Water Diversion Relocation An environmental group gives a mixed grade to China's biggest resettlement project since at least 1.2 million people were moved to make way for the Three Gorges reservoir. |
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25 Aug 10
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Turning Savers Into Shoppers China's consumers continue to be obsessed with saving money rather than spending it. |
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25 Aug 10
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Manila Response Shows Pressure on Beijing China's official response to the Manila hostage crisis shows the pressure Beijing is under to demonstrate its ability to protect its citizens overseas. |
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