Premier Wen Jiabao's charge last week to the incoming Chinese leadership to take "solid preventive and regulating measures" against pollution suggests that environmental protection is gradually moving up the national agenda.
Vancouver, home to one of the largest populations of Chinese immigrants, is hoping that buyers from China can help reverse a lull in the local real estate market even though prices remain sky-high.
When 5-year-old Su Meng met Wang Yameng, 11, in their hometown in eastern China, the thought of performing together one day in the United States would have seemed unlikely at best.
State University of New York at Stony Brook said it's establishing two new programs at the Charles B. Wang Center for art and cultures of Asia.
Beijing playwright Meng Jinghui is known as a "rock star" and Shanghai-based Nick Yu tops the list of most prolific playwrights in the Chinese mainland.
Suntech Power Holdings Co, one of the world's biggest makers of solar panels, will close its only US manufacturing facility next month.
For Thoufique, who works at a Dunkin' Donuts on Canal Street in lower Manhattan next to Fung Wah Bus Transportation, it has meant a loss of hundreds of customers.
Chinese officials are taking income inequality seriously, as shown by recent attention to the issue at the annual sessions of the National People's Congress and the country's political consultative body.
US President Barrack Obama administration, in partnership with the travel and tourism industry, is working to promote America as an international travel destination and is spending $150 million for its global marketing campaign this year. China will be one of its key targets.
Renren Inc, regarded by many as China's Facebook, said it lost money during the fourth quarter.
Chinese films may soon have their premieres on the world's busiest red carpet.
Shipping bankruptcy strands ships, roils maritime cargo industry