ON AIR NOW
Click to Play
A Chinese farmer has declared war on property developers who want his land, building a cannon out of a wheelbarrow and pipes and firing rockets at would-be eviction teams, state media said on Tuesday.
China is cracking down on Tibetan intellectuals and artists who have sought to open up discussion of the future of their region after unrest that spread across the area in Spring 2008, an overseas activist group said on Tuesday.
China and India have lifted at least 125 million out of slums between 1990 and 2010. * China improved the daily conditions of 65.3 million urban residents who were deprived of shelter * China’s urban population living in slums fell from 37.3 pe
Investor Marc Faber said China’s economy will slow and possibly “crash” within a year as declines in stock and commodity prices signal the nation’s property bubble is set to burst.
China said on Friday one of its diplomats and his family were arrested, "harassed and assaulted" in Houston (on consular grounds by Houston police) and lodged a complaint with the U.S. State Department.
A knife-wielding man attacked a kindergarten class of 4-year-olds in eastern China today, slashing 28 children in what an expert said was a copycat rampage of two other episodes at Chinese schools in the past month. A 47-year-old jobless man, Xu Y
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner said China is likely to move toward a more flexible currency because its practice of pegging the yuan to the dollar limits the Asian nation’s ability to conduct monetary policy.
Will China's Web, like its larger economy, comfortably combine extraordinary growth with government repression?
Tibetan monks prayed over hundreds of bodies at a makeshift morgue next to their monastery after powerful earthquakes destroyed the remote mountain town of Jiegu in western China and left at least 1,144 people dead, another 417 are missing.
GoDaddy.com, the world's largest domain name registration company, told lawmakers Wednesday that it will cease registering Web sites in China in response to intrusive new government rules that require applicants to provide extensive personal data, in
China is still the biggest foreign holder of US Treasury debt in January although it trimmed its holdings for a third straight month. Underscoring worries the US government faces much higher interest rates to finance soaring budget deficits.
With China’s exports soaring, even as other major economies struggle to recover from the recession, evidence is mounting that Beijing is skillfully using inconsistencies in international trade rules to spur its own economy at the expense of others, i
Chinese Premier lectured the United States, criticizing its call for China to let its currency rise against the dollar to boost U.S. exports, advising it to work harder to improve its financial system and directing it to change its foreign policy to
China's premier expressed concern about the U.S. dollar and called on Washington to take "concrete steps" to reassure Beijing about the safety of its huge Treasury bond holdings. "We cannot afford any mistake, however slight it is, when running our
China's inflation spiked higher in February, adding to pressure on Beijing to prevent overheating and keep the recovery in the world's third-largest economy on track.
As part of that plan, huge developments are underway in the north of the country, building new ski resorts and runs.
Chinese farm production rose to $759,94 billion in 2008, the latest year for which figures are available, from $584,25 billion in 2007, according to a note by the WTO secretariat, circulated on the WTO website and dated February 23.
China has confirmed the intention to purchase 191.3 tons of gold from the International Monetary Fund at an open auction, Finmarket news agency said.
Marc Faber says China is overdoing it. “It does not make sense for China to build more empty buildings and add to capacities in industries where you already have overcapacity, I think the Chinese economy will decelerate very substantially...
The Chinese embassy in Washington has said the country's best known activist lawyer, missing for a year after being taken from his home, is "working" in the western city of Urumqi, a U.S.-based rights group said.
Western powers, led by the administration of President Barack Obama, are seeking new U.N. sanctions against Iran over its expanding nuclear program, but China has remained cool to the idea of tougher steps against the big oil supplier.
In this 6 minute segment Michael Shedlock describes in how China's economy is a huge bubble built on empty condos and shopping malls.
A Chinese activist who spent 3 months camped inside Tokyo airport as a protest flew back to China and was allowed into the country. Feng Zhenghu protested China's refusal to let him return to his country. Police met him at Shanghai's airport and
The commercial property space under construction in China at the end of November was the equivalent of 6,800 Burj Khalifas -- the 160-story Dubai skyscraper that’s the world’s tallest.
China has ordered managers of its vast currency reserves to to withdraw from risky dollar assets and retreat to core debt guaranteed by the US government, a clear sign that Beijing is battening down the hatches for fresh trouble on global markets.
One of China's most controversial artists supports US Internet giant Google in its standoff with Beijing, and said his Gmail accounts had been breached by hackers. He said Google set an important example by challenging state censorship
China, already outraged over U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, Tuesday warned of damage to bilateral ties if U.S. leaders met with the Dalai Lama.
Chinese state media attacked the US on Monday after the Obama administration announced its first arms package for Taiwan, a move that prompted China to impose sanctions on the companies involved.
China is still a growth machine, averaging around 9% GDP lately. But a growing chorus of bears thinks they're cooking the books, and that the whole thing is a huge bubble waiting to pop.
he China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) announced annual sales rose 46.15 percent year on year to 13.64 million units. Output increased 48.3 percent to 13.79 million units. Passenger car sales were up 52.93 percent to 10.33 million u
