Li Yuanchao serves the Chinese Communist Party as head of its organization department. For a few months in 2002 he had a different overseer: Larry Summers.
Li controls the patronage system of the 82 million-member party that this month is unveiling its next generation of leaders, overseeing an...
TCL Corp. (000100) televisions now hang in Beijings Great Hall of the People, replacing Panasonic Corp. (6752) sets in a sign that Chinas biggest flat-panel TV maker is piling on to the woes besetting Japans industry.
The TCL Multimedia Technology Holdings Ltd. (1070) unit leapt past both...
BEIJING - China's top legislature on Saturday passed a new exit and entry law that stipulates harsher punishments for foreigners who illegally enter, live or work in China.
After three readings since December last year, the draft law was adopted at the five-day bimonthly session of the...
China's statistics authorities on Saturday officially launched a unified data collection system through which companies can send their data directly to the government's statistics center or authorized provincial branches.
Government officials and industrial analysts say it marks the start of...
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First female astronaut selected, as submersible close to 7,000 meters
China is going to extremes this weekend, breaking new ground in space with its first female astronaut, while sending a submersible to record depths in the ocean...
MUMBAI, India Just two months ago, worried about their slowing economy, Indian officials were promising to promote policies to make the country more hospitable to foreign investment.
Instead, the government has done the opposite proposed a budget festooned with new taxes that would make...
Move follows 25 billion yuan investment in Shenzhen business drive
China will not need to rely on Japan and South Korea for its supply of large flat screens after the Chinese TV giant TCL Corp introduced the world's largest 110-inch high-definition 3-D screen on March 9, industry experts...
The US as number two
By Dean Baker
WASHINGTON - Politicians in the United States must ritualistically assert that the US is and always will be the world's leading economic, military and political power. This chant may help win elections in a country where respectable people deny global...
The onward march of the Chinese consumer continues, with China overtaking the U.S. as the biggest grocery market in the world in 2011, according to new research out of the United Kingdom.
The Chinese grocery sector was worth $970 billion (607 billion pounds) at the end of 2011, while the...