A released Chinese engineer Sunday recalled his nearly six-month ordeal while held captive by Pakistani Taliban militants: In constant fear and despair, he was prepared to commit s...
Today's Beijing Times reported on a fraud case which Involves a 99-year-old man named Zhou Zhiping who is charged with fleecing the victim, a Mr Chen, of 749,000 yuan. Zhou went on...
When word came that Chairman Mao Zedong had passed away, Mao Yushi was hand-copying a file in his office at the Ministry of Railways. He heard the sound of hurrying footsteps and p...
Three relatives of former Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian yesterday pleaded guilty to money laundering, dealing a blow to the ex-leader, who has denied the charge and others, in...
A 16-year-old girl from Sichuan who went out of her way to raise money for victims of the May 12 quake in the province has been invited to attend the swearing-in of Barack Obama as...
It may seem to the outside world that China has spent the past three decades trying to get away from Mao Zedong. In fact the country still has a soft spot for the romantic dictator.
From Daily Telegraph hoaxed by spoof "character of the year" story, I learned that Daily Telegraph (UK) treated my spoof post (2008 Word of the Year) as news. I am very sorry about...
Global Times, the jingoistic sister newspaper of the People's Daily, ran a cover story on Wo Weihan, who was convicted of espionage and executed last Friday.
There's never a good time for a company to have its chairman under investigation. But news that Chinese authorities have detained Huang Guangyu, the country's wealthiest tycoon, co...
Beijing is pumping more than half a trillion dollars into the Chinese economy in order to stave off unrest. It has good reason to worry. The murder of an American Olympic tourist b...
Reporters Without Borders condemns today's arrest of blogger Guo Quan at his home in Nanjing, the capital of the central province of Jiangsu, for posting blog entries deemed to be ...
This senior official "sent by the Ministry of Transportation"--Shenzhen party organization secretary and deputy bureau chief Li Jiaxiang--now became a celebrity because of his miss...
The vice-mayor of Beijing in charge of building Beijing's Olympic Games venues and other construction worth about $55 billion has been sentenced to death for taking $1.45 million i...
Premier Wen Jiabao's performance during the earthquake relief effort has given his popularity a powerful boost. And now someone has started a Facebook fan page for him that so far ...
Analysts said that even with improved ties with the mainland, the next four years would be rough for Taiwan's new leader-Mr. Ma internally and externally, considering the difficult...
Does Guo Jingming deserve to be hailed as "the most successful writer in China"? Raymond Zhou clears up a misunderstanding in Chinese reports on a recent New York Times feature tha...
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