TAIPEI – Taiwanese coastguards said Sunday they will next month stage a live-fire exercise in disputed South China Sea islands with new, longer-range artillery and mortars, in a move that risks fresh tensions. The potentially resource-rich sea, home to important trade routes, is an increasingly dangerous flashpoint and there have been a string of...
China appears to be preparing the public for sparing from execution the wife of politician Bo Xilai who is accused of murdering a British man, a legal expert said Sunday, as a verdict is awaited in the politically-charged case. Bo’s wife Gu Kailai and an accomplice were tried on Thursday for poisoning Neil Heywood,...
BEIJING, (Xinhua) — A 6.2-magnitude earthquake jolted northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region at 18:47 Beijing Time on Sunday, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center (CENC). The epicenter, with a depth of about 30 kilometers, was determined at 35.9 degrees north latitude and 82.5 degrees east longitude in Keriya County of the region’s Hotan...
CHINA is confronting some serious economic problems, and how Beijing does — or doesn’t — respond to them could bend the course of the global economy. First, China’s real estate bubble is deflating. But its economy also seems to be suffering from what we economists call excess capacity — an overinvestment in capital goods,...
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) – Students in their twenties sit behind old wooden desks in Cambodia‘s capital, Phnom Penh, scribbling away as a teacher barks out phrases in a foreign language above the roar of motorcycles outside. Unlike in most other countries in the region, the students at this private language school and others nearby...
Photo: Reuters HAIKOU, China: China does not want to control all of the South China Sea, says Wu Shicun, the president of a government-sponsored research institute here devoted to that strategic waterway, whose seabed is believed to be rich in oil and natural gas. It wants only 80 per cent. Mr Wu is a...
LONDON (Reuters) – China‘s sports mandarins had warned before the London Olympics that their athletes would struggle to match the table-topping gold medal haul they enjoyed in Beijing. They will take little comfort in being proved right. China amassed 38 gold medals in London to reaffirm its status as a sporting superpower but finished...
LONDON (AP) — On any other day and in any other situation, the Tibetan exiles who gathered excitedly in groups next to Buckingham Palace would never have come to cheer for an athlete wearing the colors of China, a country they regard as their oppressor, a country that invaded and has governed their Himalayan...
LONDON (Reuters) – China bowed out of the 2012 Olympics on Sunday with a swipe at the critics who had accused teenage swimming sensation Ye Shiwen of doping after her times rivaled the top U.S. men. Aged just 16, Ye set a world record, a Games record and won two gold medals in the...
CHONGQING, China (Reuters) – China‘s fallen politician Bo Xilai left a timebomb as a parting gift for the Communist Party leadership that threw him out — the smoldering demands for redress from the many targets of his harsh version of justice in the city he ruled. For now, China remains transfixed on the fate...
