Coastal and inland cities are fiercely competing to attract migrant workers as China's labor shortage spreads to less-developed central and western regions. In Southwest China's Chongqing, many firms...

More than 70 percent of urban Chinese singles getting nearer to their "expiry date" for marriage are in the grip of depression, according to China's first survey of their mental health. "Many women wh...

China awarded more than 21 million academic degrees, including 335,000 doctorates, since 1981 when a landmark regulation provided a legal frame for the country's higher education. The academic degrees...

The 21 dancers who perform the One Thousand Hands Buddha are admired across China because of their success in spite of their deafness. Few people who watch them move to music they cannot hear know tha...

Like a college student emerging battered and bleary-eyed from an usually vigorous Spring Break bender, China has come through its latest Lunar New Year holiday wondering whether or not it might be tim...

Encana Corp. said Wednesday it entered a 5.4 billion-Canadian-dollar (US$5.43 billion) deal with PetroChina Co. to develop hard-to-reach natural-gas reserves, further deepening the energy ties between...

The emotional meeting of a man in southern China and a young boy believed to be his missing son has drawn fresh attention to the country's problems with child abductions and to new efforts to use the...

ZTE Corp.'s finance chief said Washington should promote a fair business environment with less government interference, expressing frustration at the Chinese telecommunications-equipment maker's effor...

Taiwan's Defense Ministry said it arrested a military general on suspicion of spying for China in the most high-profile cross-Strait espionage case in decades. Taiwan government officials and some exp...

China is building strategic reserves in rare-earth metals, an effort that could give Beijing increased power to influence global prices and supplies in a sector it already dominates. Details of the st...

Hong Kong's securities regulator is seeking a court order to freeze assets of China Forestry Holdings Co. Chief Executive Li Hanchun, who sold a stake in the company just two weeks before trading in i...

China's central bank warned before the Lunar New Year break that it would focus on inflation, which has been forecast to top 5% in January. Inflation jitters spread through emerging markets on Tuesday...