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April 19, 2011Five Chinese Muslims who are detained at Guantánamo Bay were refused an appeal by the Supreme Court for a hearing about the possibility of their release into the United States.
April 18, 2011The 2010 Formula One champion committed a tactical error at the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday, allowing Hamilton to overtake him and claim victory.
April 18, 2011China’s status as the low-cost workshop for the world is at risk, and so are companies that have come to count on it.
April 17, 2011A church that raised $4 million from its members to buy a house of worship fell under the disapproving scrutiny of the Communist Party.
April 17, 2011When Formula One arrived in China in 2004, staging the Shanghai Grand Prix on the series's largest track, it crossed into the last of the big frontiers that had remained closed to it.
April 15, 2011At least 54 people have been detained in the current crackdown on progressive thought and speech, according to a statement released by China Human Rights Defenders.
April 15, 2011Back in the elite racing series for the first time in 20 years, the Pirelli Tire company is seeking to balance the apparently opposing needs of the drivers and the organizers.
April 15, 2011Sebastian Vettel leads the way in both practice sessions in China as he continues his Formula One domination.
April 15, 2011Several finance ministers hailed the deal as a milestone in efforts to increase China’s accountability to the concerns of other nations.
April 15, 2011As the Apple iPad 2 remains in short supply, Chinese men and women are now waiting overnight to purchase the Apple iPad 2 and reselling it on the Chinese market.
April 15, 2011Amid a real estate boom, men are finding themselves lovelorn as women hold out for a mate with property.
April 14, 2011I have always wanted to seek a place within me for both Chinese and Western cultures, even though they often seem so opposite.
April 14, 2011Ai Weiwei, an artist detained by China, is being investigated for tax evasion, destroying evidence and distributing pornography, a Hong Kong newspaper says.
April 14, 2011At 16, Ding Liren was the surprise winner of the national title two years. Last year, he finished far back. This year, he is champion again.
April 13, 2011Sheng Keyi’s novel “Northern Girls” focuses on the experience of migrant women in China’s big cities, particularly in relation to their sexuality.
April 13, 2011The United States and its allies want other developing nations to ask China to alter its economic policies.
April 13, 2011Investigators have found that tainted milk that killed three children in northwest China appeared to be a case of intentional poisoning, and they have detained a suspect, state media said Monday.
April 12, 2011China's television censors have issued new guidelines that all but ban TV drams that feature time travel. The problem: a lack of "positive thoughts and meaning."
April 12, 2011Security officers have placed an important Tibetan monastery in Sichuan Province under lockdown after a young monk committed suicide by setting himself on fire on March 16 to protest Chinese policies in Tibetan areas.
April 12, 2011China accused the United States on Monday of pushing for Internet freedom around the world to undermine other nations while waging a campaign against the antisecrecy Web site WikiLeaks.
April 12, 2011Producers of kangaroo meat are hoping that demand from China can revive their struggling industry, which has been hobbled by a 2009 import ban by Russia.
April 12, 2011"Jobs in the virtual economy include microtasks like categorizing products in online shops, moderating content posted to social media sites, or even playing online games on behalf of wealthier players who are too busy to tend to their characters themselves," reports Boing Boing. "The study estimates that the market for such gaming-for-hire services was worth $3 billion in 2009."
April 11, 2011Communist Party officials this weekend abruptly canceled a debate competition among students from 16 universities on the topic of China’s 1911 revolution, one official said.
April 11, 2011While the countries that have long led the world in scientific research still dominate, emerging nations like China, India and Brazil are making important gains, according to a new report.
April 11, 2011A conversation with Karl Gerth, an Oxford professor and the author of "As China Goes, So Goes the World: How Chinese Consumers Are Transforming Everything."
April 11, 2011China has quietly but surely established a foothold in Suriname, a tiny corner of South America, with emigration and economic aid.
April 11, 2011Officials are investigating Ai Weiwei, the celebrity artist and social critic, who was detained in Beijing while trying to board a flight to Hong Kong.
April 8, 2011Photos posted online by the state news agency carried captions that said the warship was expected to sail later this year.
April 8, 2011It has taken the arrest of the artist Ai Weiwei for the world to take notice that Beijing is in the midst of the largest crackdown on dissent in over a decade.
April 8, 2011The company hopes to open the park by 2015 and to avoid the cultural mistakes that marred other park openings.
April 8, 2011The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is leading an international effort to call for the release of Ai Weiwei, the Chinese Conceptual artist who was taken into police custody in Beijing after he was detained on Sunday while trying to board a flight for Hong Kong.
April 08, 2011A new analysis describes vast resources of natural gas, with deep implications for all other energy choices.
April 07, 2011Experts say the push to make biofuels from crops is contributing to high food prices, hunger and political instability; in 2010, the world's largest cassava root producer Thailand sent 98 percent of its crops to China to make biofuel; likewise in 2010, 6 percent of all grain worldwide went into making biofuels; photos; chart
April 7, 2011China is now the world's fastest-growing destination for American exports.
April 07, 2011Fraud involving flight attendants carrying 6 million euros ($8.5 million) in restored euro coins into Europe from China is one of biggest in history of Bundesbank, Germany's central bank; German authorities arrest six men in connection with case; photos
April 6, 2011Article in Culture and Control series, exploring the struggle to shape the culture of authoritarian China; highlights exhibits at the new National Museum of China that represent Communist Party's efforts to control the narrative of history and suppress alternative points of view; photos
April 4, 2011Why did a history of devastating tsunamis appear to have limited influence on coastal preparations in Japan?
April 04, 2011The venture capital firm announces it has closed two new funds, which together represent $2 billion in new commitments.
April 04, 2011Is this the last stand of 21st-century defenders of a 19th-century light bulb?
March 31, 2011California officials shut down a 'maternity tourism' house where pregnant Chinese women who have paid tens of thousands of dollars stay and deliver their babies, making the infants automatic American citizens; although it is impossible to determine how widespread maternity tourism is, the shut down is likely to intensify the debate over birthright citizenship; photos
March 29, 2011Op-Ed article by Chinese woman Geng He petitions to know what has become of her husband Gao Zhisheng, human rights activist who was seized by Chinese government nearly year ago and has not been heard from since
March 28, 2011Engineers in China are building radically different type of reactor that some experts say is safer nuclear alternative; so-called pebble-bed reactor uses billiard ball-size fuel spheres known as pebbles instead of typical fuel rods encased in water reactors; design is intended to avoid meltdowns; photos; drawing
March 25, 2011Russia's state-owned nuclear power company Rosatom is using legacy of Chernobyl as selling point, claiming knowledge gained from disaster has made their reactors safer; company has profited greatly from selling reactors to energy-hungry nations like China and India; photos
March 23, 2011Solar and wind developers have also come to rely on the guarantees as the banking sector has grown more risk-averse.
March 17, 2011Chinese men and women are waiting in line at Apple stores in New York and San Francisco, hoping to buy a new iPad 2 to resell for a hefty profit.
March 17, 2011India and China, which have vast unmet energy needs, say they will continue using nuclear power plants and plan to build new ones despite crisis in Japan; industry officials in other nations have said they might reconsider plans to expand nuclear power if situation in Japan worsens; photos
March 15, 2011Damage to power and transportation infrastructure from Japan's disastrous earthquake and tsunami has disrupted factories that supply components to electronics and automobile manufacturers; analysts expect companies both large and small to feel impact from shortages and related jump in prices; photos
March 15, 2011Guobin Yang Op-Ed article contends that although sudden, radical transformation is not likely in China, change has been under way there for years in subtle forms of reformist, rather than revolutionary, protest; holds that the Internet is a vital part of a broader trend of contemporary activism in which Chinese citizens are effectively challenging authorities through provocation rather than direct confrontation; drawing
March 14, 2011The venture, which will buy shipping vessels and related assets in China, represents Carlyle's growing interest in the region, which has benefited from strong economic growth.
March 14, 2011Shiho Fukada wanted to get a behind-the-scenes look at China's legislature. Instead, she put the spotlight on its theatricality.
March 14, 2011Inflation grew for a fifth consecutive month after consumer prices, led by higher housing and food costs, rose sharply in February.
March 12, 2011Many rights advocates are being detained, some with no legal authority, in what critics say is one of the harshest crackdowns in years.
March 12, 2011The leader of China’s quasi-legislature said that China would never embrace Western political tenets because loosening the Communist Party’s hold on power risked plunging the nation into “the abyss of internal disorder.”
March 11, 2011China’s largest metropolitan region, Chongqing, will spend $781.6 million by 2014 to install 200,000 new video surveillance cameras, raising the total to 510,000.
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Even with a $380 million overhaul, the reopened National Museum of China exemplifies the Communist Party’s determination to suppress alternative points of view and control the narrative of history.
The tulou, largely earthen structures that often rise to four floors and sometimes include hundreds of rooms, are an iconic presence in parts of China, but few young people still live in them.
Maxwell Hearn, the new head of Asian Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, demonstrates the ancient art of understanding and appreciating Chinese scroll paintings.
The Nigerian-born performer Emmanuel Uwechue, a k a Hao Ge, has risen to stardom singing in Mandarin Chinese.
A $230 million refinery for rare earths being built by an Australian company could meet nearly a third of the world’s demand and break China’s lock on materials critical in many high-tech products.
Workers at an Apple supplier, Wintek, are seeking the U.S. company's help with compensation and medical coverage, after they were chemically poisoned over one-and-a-half years ago.
Images from the exhibition at the Penn Museum in Philadelphia.
A look at the work of the five Chinese directors whose films are playing in the Museum of Modern Art’s documentary fortnight.
Officially, Mr. Chen, one of the China's most high-profile human rights defenders, is a free man. Unofficially, he has become a prisoner in his own home.
A slide show with samples of Chinese students’ application brochures is no longer available.
The Macanese, whose roots are found in many places of the former Portuguese empire, retain their own culture and their own language, Patuá.
Images from the new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
At the White House on Wednesday, the president of China was served a “quintessentially American” menu.
President Obama welcomed President Hu Jintao of China to the White House on Wednesday with a display of pomp and circumstance.
A series of articles and multimedia examining the human toll, global impact and political challenge of China’s epic pollution crisis.