Direct flight to link Nanjing, Los Angeles

China Eastern Airline will launch a direct flight connecting Nanjing, capital city of East China's Jiangsu province, and Los Angeles on June 30.

China thirsty for BC water, investors buy up sources

Two Chinese businessmen recently bought two water sources in British Columbia, Canada.

Across America over the week (from Feb 27 to March 5)

Across America over the week (from Feb 27 to March 5)

Michael Chow: A Life fit for a Hollywood script

Michael Chow is better known in the West than in his native China.

Birthing centers mum after raid in California

"If you can pay, you can play." This is the pitch circulated in Chinese online "birth tourism" forums to encourage expectant mothers to get on airplanes and have their babies in the US.

Yuhuang Chemical executes an ambitious plan

Yuhuang Chemical - a US subsidiary of Shangdong Yuhuang Chemical - started its venture in the US with an ambitious plan: build a $1.85 billion methanol complex on 1,200 acres of farm land in St James Parish, Louisiana. It's by far the largest green field investment in methanol by a Chinese company in the US.

The Legend of Mulan told at Lincoln Center

The Legend of Mulan, one of the most recognizable folktales in Chinese culture, came to Lincoln Center with the Hong Kong Dance Company's first performance of the classic outside of Asia.

The enigma that was 'Vinegar Joe'

Joseph Warren Stilwell was the perfect candidate to oversee US operations against the Japanese in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Although a controversial figure in his homeland, the late general is revered in the countries he helped to defend and liberate, as ZHAO XU reports from Beijing.

Plane skids off LaGuardia runway during snowstorm in NYC

Film explores urbanization’s mixed bag

Ordos in China's Inner Mongolia was once dubbed the world's biggest ghost town by the Western mainstream media and cited as a prime example of China's busted housing bubble.

Flooding risk inland: researchers

China has the third-highest population in the world at risk of inland flooding due to climate change, according to new analysis from Washington-based World Resources Institute.

US apple exports to China sliced by backlog at West Coast ports

The West Coast port-labor dispute has bruised the apple-export industry in Washington state, the top producer of apples in the United States.