China said that Hong Kong would have to wait at least another decade for democratic elections to select its leader.

The increase fed speculation that China was yielding to international pressure and the state of its economy.

… Yasuo Fukuda of Japan made energy and environmental issues the centerpiece of his visit to China.

China launched its first lunar probe on Wednesday as the Communist Party moved a step closer to fulfilling its ambitions of one day reaching the moon.

The pace of China’s economic development is still strong enough to keep pushing up prices around the world for everything from oil to iron ore to freight shipping.

… tourist-mobbed 798 art district in Beijing is a tiny shop that serves as one of the centers of China’s small but thriving experimental music scene.

China will spend more than $14 billion to clean up a famed lake inundated by so much pollution this year that it became a symbol of the country’s lax environmental regulation.

Shares of Baidu.com, owner of China’s most popular Internet search site, fell after the death of its chief financial officer, Shawn Wang. Mr. Wang died in an accident on Thursday, the company said in a statement on Saturday. A group of senior managers will take on his duties until a successor is named. Under Mr. Wang, Baidu’s shares soared past $400 in the United States last month, a 15-fold gain from their …

China trying to allay international concerns before Summer Olympic Games

Beijing-based Foreign Correspondents Club of China says it had recorded more than 180 incidents of interference, including beatings and intimidation, in 2007

China says it will allow Hong Kong to directly elect its leader by 2017, all of its lawmakers by 2020; Hong Kong's pro-democracy parties have been pushing for universal suffrage in 2012

China said this week that it would introduce an array of production standards to improve safety and guard against the use of illegal veterinary drugs in its seafood.

China’s government approved a plan to build an improved wireless broadband cellphone network.

Ant & Sons submits: Leaving aside the less than spectacular fundamentals of China Sunergy (CSUN) for a moment, it is difficult to believe that the stock is still holdings its gains. Complete Story »

Leaving aside the less than spectacular fundamentals of China Sunergy (CSUN) for a moment, it is difficult to believe that the stock is still holdings its gains.

There is a lot of press today about China's new regulation which appears to decree that only state-owned or state-controlled companies can show or stream online video. As usual, there's the literal reading, then there's the reading of the tea...

China National Aviation Holding Company president and Air China (601111.SH; 0753.HK) chairman Li Jiaxiang has been appointed as director of China Administration of Civil Aviation of China (CAAC), reports Sina quoting an Air China insider.

… Shenzhen Stock Exchanges reached 147 billion Yuan and 77.6 billion Yuan, respectively.

China's communication industry will expand by RMB630 billion in 2008, with total phone users (including mobile and fixed-line users) reaching 976 million in 2008, reports Sohu quoting China's Ministry of Information Industry (MII) minister Wang Xudong on December 27. Wang said China expects to add 62...

BEIJING: China and Japan pledged on Friday to build on their rapidly warming ties, as Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda met the Chinese leadership, but a dispute over maritime gas fields remained unresolved.

Pentagon earlier protested China's refusal last week to allow US warships to dock in Hong Kong, said explanation was not sufficient

President of European Investment Bank says bank would lend China more than $700 million for projects to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions

China has fast-growing trade surplus with Europe that EU finance officials say could lead to calls for protectionist policies against China

One group calls on corporate sponsors of 2008 Olympic Games to push China to do more

Admiral Timothy Keating says US 'perplexed' at China's decision to deny three Navy ships access to Hong Kong Harbor in recent weeks

Ya-Qin Zhang, president of Microsoft China, has told local media that Microsoft China will recruit 1000 engineers in the new fiscal year and this would bring its total employee number in China to 6000.

China 3C Group, a retailer and distributor of consumer and business products in China, announced that it signed a binding letter of intent to become the exclusive supplier for 3C800.com, an online Chinese retailer of B2C electronics
products.

… say a large white animal swimming in the Yangtze River is a member of a dolphin species unique to China and feared extinct.

China’s consumer prices rose sharply in October, the government reported on Tuesday, adding to pressure for measures to cool a surge in food prices.

China will get a stake in a 2,000-ton-a-year uranium mine in Kazakhstan in exchange for its share in a uranium-processing business, the state-owned company Kazatomprom said. The company’s president, Moukhtar Dzhakishev, said in Almaty that the company would gain access to Chinese assets, without elaborating. Kazatomprom said on Oct. 12 it signed agreements in Beijing with the China …