News about China
300 workers strike out at Western Europe - Western China highway
300 construction workers of the Western Europe-Western China highway project have gone on strike.
13 May 2014
American dog trainers bring detector dogs to Almaty, help Kazakhstan stop saiga horn trafficking to China
Almaty customs officers have got four detection dogs from Europe and America. The joint effort is called to help save the dwindling saiga antelope population in Kazakhstan.
13 May 2014
More than 200 held in China terror video crackdown
Police in China's Xinjiang region, home to mainly Muslim Uighurs, have arrested more than 200 people over six weeks for "dissemination of violent or terrorist videos", state media said Monday, amid a wave of train station attacks.
12 May 2014
ASEAN alarm over China sea spat
Southeast Asian leaders have expressed "serious concern" over territorial disputes in the South China Sea, according to a statement released Monday, amid a growing row between Vietnam and Beijing over contested waters.
12 May 2014
Questions remain as China remembers 6 years since quake
Six years after a huge earthquake killed tens of thousands of people in China, questions over poor building work and corruption were still being asked on Monday's anniversary, as online posters remembered the dead.
12 May 2014
Woman fights python to save pet dog in Hong Kong
A woman used a pocket knife to fight off a huge Burmese python which attacked her dog while out walking in a Hong Kong country park, a report said.
11 May 2014
China's Xiaomi leads Asia's low-cost smartphone drive
Xiaomi may be little known outside China, but the fast-growing smartphone maker is at the forefront of a new wave of Asian brands challenging the dominance of Apple and Samsung with high-spec, low-price phones.
11 May 2014
Rakhat Confectionary to expand to China and South Korea
Rakhat, a major Kazakhstani confectionary company, plans to expand into foreign markets.
10 May 2014
Three-year old boy conquers Internet
Three-year old Zhang Junhao of Shandong province in China has won the sympathy of the jury and the audience with his dance on the Amazing Chinese TV show.
09 May 2014
13-yo girl from Kazakhstan wins Spring Voices in China
13-year-old Aiym Samekeyeva from Kazakhstan has won the Gran Prix at the Spring Voices singing competition in China.
08 May 2014
10-yo boy from Kazakhstan wins international singing contest
10-year-old Mukhammedali Zhugunusov from Kazakhstan has won the Grand Prix of the Paradise Hoilday-2014 singing contest in Greece.
08 May 2014
Six wounded in knife attack at Chinese train station: police
Six people were wounded in a knife attack at a Chinese train station Tuesday, police said, after a string of violent episodes at transport hubs authorities blame on "terrorists" from the restive region of Xinjiang.
06 May 2014
Cargo ship sinks, 11 missing near Hong Kong: officials
Eleven crew members from a Chinese cargo ship are missing after it collided with a container vessel and sank just outside Hong Kong waters on Monday, authorities said.
05 May 2014
Chinese mourn young firemen who fell from highrise
Two young Chinese firefighters who fell to their deaths during a blaze in a highrise building are being hailed as heroes of their generation on social media.
03 May 2014
Microsoft to sell Xbox One in China in September
Microsoft will later this year start offering its Xbox One game console with a local partner in China, where such devices were banned for more than a decade.
01 May 2014
Disney eyes bigger plans with Shanghai
American entertainment giant Disney is set to pour an additional $800 million into its Disney Shanghai, its first theme park on the Chinese mainland, officials said.
29 April 2014
Most back to work after China shoe factory strike
A nearly two-week strike at a huge shoe factory in southern China appears to have ended after the Taiwan-backed company agreed to meet some of the workers' demands, including raising their living allowance and benefit payments.
27 April 2014
China offers cash in Xinjiang for tips on beards
Authorities in China's restive Xinjiang region are offering cash to informants who report on neighbours with excessive facial hair, state media has reported.
26 April 2014
China to punish top web portal Sina over porn
China plans to restrict Internet giant Sina's right to publish after finding pornographic content on the portal, a report said Friday, in Beijing's latest move to tighten control of the web.
26 April 2014
Obama lands in Seoul as N. Korea nuclear test fears grow
Barack Obama arrived in Seoul Friday to growing signs North Korea was defiantly readying another nuclear test, and with South Koreans in a state of national mourning over the sinking of a ferry full of schoolchildren.
25 April 2014