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China to send first woman to space
16 Jun 2012 9:00 AM GMTChina will send its first woman into space when an airforce pilot joins a three-member team of astronauts on the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft which blasts...
Great Wall of China longer than believed
14 Jun 2012 2:33 AM GMTOver 2,200 years since it was built, China's Great Wall continues to be a mystery as new studies reveal that it could be almost 2.4 times longer than...
26 held in US-China joint arms crackdown
13 Jun 2012 1:09 AM GMTChinese and US police arrested 26 suspects in a joint crackdown on a major transnational arms trafficking ring.Among the suspects, 23 were arrested in...
China breeds calf to produce low-lactose milk
12 Jun 2012 2:07 AM GMTChinese scientists claimed to have bred the world's first genetically-modified calf that would produce low-lactose milk in two years, state media said...
Chinese university to teach Hindi
12 Jun 2012 2:01 AM GMTHindi, one of the foreign languages gaining popularity in China will be making its debut in South China with a university in Guangzhou set to...
India, China show signs of slowdown: OECD
12 Jun 2012 1:12 AM GMTIndia and China, two of the world's fastest growing economies, are seeing signs of slowdown, Paris-based think tank Organisation for Economic...
China revives a key economic reform
11 Jun 2012 1:57 AM GMTChina's move to allow more competition in its state-dominated banking sector revives a reform shelved for nearly a decade and defies expectations of a...
China, Afghanistan upgrades ties
9 Jun 2012 9:47 AM GMTChina on Friday upgraded its ties with resource-rich Afghanistan to level of a strategic and cooperative partnership and pledged ‘selfless support’...
China mulls increasing retirement age
8 Jun 2012 1:45 AM GMTFacing demographic problems with swelling ranks of people above 60 years, China plans to embark on pension reforms which include increasing the...
Clinton asks China, Russia to influence Syria
8 Jun 2012 1:37 AM GMTUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has called on China and Russia to use their influence on Damascus to stop the Syrian bloodshed, RIA Novosti...
The art of profit
8 Jun 2012 12:34 AM GMTUntil recently, few in the art world had even heard of China's auction houses. Today, they are among the world's biggest by revenue, posing a serious...
China, Russia make 10-point agreement
7 Jun 2012 2:40 AM GMTAllaying apprehensions of an emerging military alliance between them, China and Russia beefed up their ties with 10 ‘crucial’ agreements including...