U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson says Americans should not fear China's growing economic clout, but rather see it as an opportunity that can benefit both China and the United States, if the two countries forge a successful strategic economic relationship in the years ahead....

Iraq's oil minister will be in China later this month to complete a $1.2-billion oil deal....

Beijing, Aug 20 (DPA) Chinese Internet users are clamouring for used Olympic tickets, with demand highest for last week's China-US basketball match and other high-profile events, media said...

The Beijing government has threatened to send two elderly Beijing women, who applied to hold demonstrations in designated 'protest zones', to a labour camp, a human rights group said...

For the second successive Olympic Games, there will be no Asian team on the podium at the hockey competition. Asian champions South Korea, who had an outside chance of making the last four grade Tuesday, were beaten 1-2 and shut out of the semi-finals. Pakistan and China were already out of the...

Beijing, Aug 20 (Xinhua) China's sport authorities have banned the issuing of Internet domain names based on the country's Olympic gold medal-winning athletes to anyone other than the medallists...

Chinese security personnel detained five American pro-Tibet activists after they unfurled a banner in Beijing's Olympic...

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has cancelled plans to attend the closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games in Beijing Sunday, the White House...

Jordan and China Tuesday signed an agreement for cooperating in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, mainly in electricity generation and water desalination, an official statement...

Shanghai,Nigeria Tuesday secured their place in the final of the men's Olympic football tournament with a convincing 4-1 victory against Belgium in the Shanghai...

The Olympic Games have sent the sales of snacks soaring in...

The Olympic Village in Beijing besides being an athlete's compound is also a place where the players can get to know Chinese...

New Delhi, Aug 20 : Beijing Olympic Games may become the biggest broadcast event in the Olympic history, according to an official with the International Olympic Committee...

Beijing, Aug 20 : Wrestler Sushil Kumar on Wednesday brought further international glory to India by winning the bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics after 56...

Beijing, Aug 20, : Achanta Sharath Kamal crashed out of men's table tennis event, at Olympic Games in Beijing....

Karachi, Aug 20 : The Chinese government has reportedly detained 35 Pakistanis visiting China to watch Olympics after they were suspected of planning to attack proceedings of the Games....

Beijing, Aug. 19 : Used Olympic tickets have got a second lease of life, and may eventually turn out to be good long-term investments, thanks to some popular Chinese collectors'...

Beijing, Aug. 20 : The Olympic medals have caught the eyes of athletes and spectators from around the world....

New Delhi, Aug 19 : The Sports Ministry has announced a prize money of Rs. 50 lakhs to Abhinav Bindra, for his gold medal in the Beijing Olympics 2008, under the scheme of special award to medal winners in International Sports events....

(AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)China's gymnast Yang Wei performs on the horizontal bar during the men's individual all-around competition at the Beijing 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Thursday, Aug 14,...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Guinness World Records has returned the title of world's tallest man to China's Bao Xishun after Ukrainian Leonid Stadnyk refused to be measured under new...

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Around 1,200 people were forced to evacuate their homes after a tremor measuring five on the Richter scale jolted western Yunnan Province, in southwest China, early on Wednesday. The tremor struck at...

Elaine Kurtenbach August 20, 2008 - 04:45 a.m. SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Chinese stocks surged Wednesday in their biggest gain in nearly four months on speculation Beijing plans new economic...

On 31 July 2008, the Singapore Art Museum and APB Foundation announced the 10 artworks shortlisted for the prestigious regional Art Prize. The 10 finalists representing nine countries in Asia...

(2 hrs ago) Hong Kong shares rebounded from early losses, with the benchmark index climbing 1.99 percent on hopes of a stimulus package to aid fragile mainland stock markets, bucking weak sentiment...

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Hong Kong - Hong Kong stocks rebounded by 2.1 per cent Wednesday on hopes that China may announce a package to help the mainland economy. The Hang Seng index closed at 20,931, up 446 on the previous...

Zou Kai won the high bar yesterday, concluding China's gymnastics gold run with another Olympic championship. American Jonathan Horton took silver to go with his team bronze medal. Germany's Fabian...

"Some people thought China's economic success as a threat, somehow we need counter or contain, somehow their success is going to hurt the United States, I think these people are worried about...

In marketing year 2008/09, China's total tomato production is forecast at 37.5 million MT, a three-percent increase over the previous year and represents a recovery from MY 2007/08, when an...

HELSINKI, FINLAND--(Marketwire - August 20, 2008) - Metso Corporation Company release on August 20, 2008 at 2 p.m. Metso has signed a contract with the Chinese Zhanjiang Chenming for the...

Iron ore firm Golden West Resources said Australian foreign investment regulators had cleared a proposal for China's Hunan Valin Steel Tube & Wire Co to buy 11.4 percent of the company. The...

BEIJING -- Canoeists are not exactly the glamour athletes of China's Olympic team. Their sport is one of the most obscure in the country. But if they manage to add to China's gold-medal harvest this...

Ahead of the crucial NSG meeting to decide on nuclear commerce with India, China today chose to keep its cards close to its chest but harped on maintaining the "integrity and effectiveness"...

BEIJING — Two women in their 70s who applied to hold protests during the Beijing Olympics have each been ordered to serve one-year terms of re-education through labor for...

BEIJING - The Associated Press China has clinched its first-ever beach volleyball medal, with top-seeded Tian Jia and Wang Jie winning an all-China semifinal yesterday to advance to the championship...

Kim Sook called for patience to settle differences about ways to verify the North's account of its atomic activities. "I think China's constructive role is required," Kim told reporters after ...

A congressional delegation visiting Ukraine this week met with President Viktor Yuschenko and visited the site of the Holocaust-era massacre at Babi...

Examiner Reader said: It is part of global warming. The earth has too many people and they are burning oil at a crazy rate, pollute everything to the max. Earth is reaching unsustained state. With...

On the morning of August 10, Mr. Han, a taxi driver with the Beijing Capital Taxi Company washed his car clean and arrived in Legendale Hotel by 8:00am. He was responsible for making sure the...

"We have put in a request (this week) to the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body for a panel," Chen told Dow Jones Newswires. The three economies want the E.U. to scrap a 13.9% tariff on imports of set- ...

According to the MOHURD, China has 594 millin city residents and the rate of urbanization climbed to 44.9% by the end of 2007. This number has increased 0.95% per year since 1982. Currently China has...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Five American blogger-activists and a foreign artist have been detained in Beijing as the government intensifies a crackdown on pro-Tibetan protests in the home stretch of the...

BEIJING - Beijing reported another day of "fairly good" air quality for day 12 of the Olympics. Figures released by the China Environmental Monitoring Center showed the city's Air Pollution Index...

The People's Daily newspaper is to publish an editorial on Tuesday to celebrate the 87th anniversary of the Communist Party of China (CPC), which was founded on July 1,...

BEIJING, Aug. 20 (AP) - (Kyodo)—Results of Japanese athletes at the Beijing Olympics on Wednesday (Q - denotes qualification for next round): CANOE/KAYAK (FLATWATER) Women's 500-meter kayak...

In face of a severe domestic economy, the increasing speed of Shanghai industry has slowed down and the general output value was 202.064 billion yuan this July - 8% higher than the same period last...

The miners were caught in the blast in the Baijiagou Coal Mine in Faku County, Liaoning Province, Monday morning, the Xinhua news agency said, quoting a provincial coal mine safety bureau official....

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Avasant, a leading global management solutions provider, today announced that an article titled "Next Wave of Outsourcing- Remote Infrastructure...