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Belly button challenge takes off

[2015-06-17 04:29]

A new Internet challenge — to show how slender your figure is by touching your belly button by reaching behind your back and around your waist — has taken China by storm.

Benjamin Von Wong: shoots sweet life

[2015-06-17 00:20]

“As we get older, we stop dreaming, we stop believing that anything is possible because we’ve seen too much of what isn’t,” he wrote on his blog. “And that is why I wanted to photograph ordinary people as superheroes — so that they could see themselves as they had once dreamed.”

'Positive moves' in China: S&P

[2015-06-16 11:27]

Shoring up local government debt is lowering the risks of a downside in China's economy, an expert said.

Hainan links Beijing-San Jose

[2015-06-16 11:27]

Any two high-tech hubs benefit from a new high-speed connection.

Alibaba set for video-streaming launch

[2015-06-16 11:27]

Alibaba will launch an online video-streaming service similar to products offered by Netflix and HBO.

With China in lead, Asia Pacific poised to be richest region

[2015-06-16 11:27]

China created one million new millionaires last year as the country's roaring stock market bolstered the ranks of the wealthy, according to a global wealth report released on Monday.

China helps Jurassic World's record box-office

[2015-06-16 10:12]

Jurassic World set a world box-office record over the weekend, with a large boost from China, where moviegoers spent more than $100 million to watch the latest installment in the dinosaur adventure series.

Key China-US talks next week

[2015-06-16 06:01]

China and the United States will hold their seventh meeting of the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue (S&ED) in Washington from June 23-24.

Hainan San Jose to Beijing: Ready for take-off

[2015-06-16 04:14]

Luo Linquan, consul general of the Chinese Consulate General in San Francisco, speaks at the welcoming ceremony for Hainan Airlines' maiden flight to San Jose International Airport on June 15.

Peruvian cuisine gets on global foodie map

[2015-06-16 01:20]

With its cosmopolitan flavors and rich palette of ingredients, Peruvian cuisine has surged onto the global food scene in recent years, consecrated this month with Lima restaurant Central's breakthrough into the world top five.

Opportunities in the wind for Chinese power companies

[2015-06-16 01:15]

Latin America may be an emerging market for Chinese wind power companies' long-term strategic plan, said Pan Yantian, general manager of Goldwind International, the international subsidiary of Xinjiang Goldwind Science & Techonology Co Ltd, one of China's leading wind turbine manufacturers.

More to ties than copper and energy

[2015-06-16 01:15]

Chile has its eyes set on more Chinese investment to support key industries such as copper refining and energy, in addition to money from China to fund its infrastructure, said Jorge Heine, Chile's ambassador to China.

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