Consul General visits Chinatown legacy show

The general store looks like an old New York storefront, complete with tin ceilings, built-in wooden cabinets and red brick walls.

Legendary actress keeps learning

Stage drama fans in Silicon Valley will get a blast to the past - to China's Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) to be precise - with this weekend's performance of Stunning Beauty at the Cupertino Flint Center.

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NBA does a slam-dunk in China

On the National Basketball Association's official blog in China - http://e.weibo.com/nba - 27.5 million fans. On the league's website in China - NBA.com/China - 8.6 million registered fans. There are 70 million NBA followers on Sina Weibo, Tencent Weibo, Tencent Qzone and Tencent WeChat.

Sponsorships are major revenue source

For NBA China, corporate sponsorships (signage sales) have been a major part of revenue, and throughout the years big multinational corporations such as McDonald's, Budweiser, Coca-Cola and Adidas have used the NBA to expand their market shares in China.

China preps satellite to help detect quakes

China's first test satellite for detecting electromagnetic anomalies from space will launch in 2016 in a move that is aimed at improving the country's earthquake monitoring network and moving its seismological science forward.

California teen grabs top Intel science award

Despite winning one of the biggest and most prestigious science and math competitions for US teenagers, 17-year-old Eric Chen has no plans to stop there.

Earthquakes cause plenty of jitters

With Friday's 5.1-magnitude earthquake still fresh in her memory and worried about an even bigger temblor on the near horizon, Jenney Zhu, a 30-year-old Chinese woman living in Los Angeles, moved her bed from second floor to living room of her single family house with a mountain view.