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Mao Changqin, a student of e-commerce, shows delivery invoices of his online store on a single day in his office at Yiwu Industry and Commerce Vocational College in Yiwu, east China's Zhejiang Province, July 29, 2010.

The death toll from floods sweeping through northeastern China has risen to 37, state media said Saturday, as the country continues to battle the worst floods in a decade.

An explosion ripped through a workers' dormitory area and killed at least 15 people Saturday at a coal mine in a city in northern China notorious for mining disasters.

In Chinaa s factories, pay and protest are on the rise. That is good for China, and for the world economy Jul 29th 2010 CHEAP labour has built Chinaa s economic miracle.

CHINA executes more of its own citizens than any other country, and more than all others in the world combined.

Four people were killed and 19 injured Friday in a blast at a tax office in central China that police said appeared to be a deliberate attack, state media reported.

Deep in a long-forgotten corner of the Forbidden City and up a twisting stairway are four sets of twin doors, shut for more than eight decades.

Mayor Tom Henry and the Allen County commissioners will welcome the award-winning Voices of Unity Youth Choir back to American soil in downtown Fort Wayne today.

NBA basketball player Kobe Bryant answers questions from press in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, July 29, 2010.

China's worst known oil spill is dozens of times larger than the government has reported, and some of the oil was spilled deliberately to avoid an even larger disaster, an American expert said Friday.

In the crowded Taipei theater, Eddy Fang laughs politely at the Chinese ensemble's comic references to jealous husbands and overweight wives but can't help thinking it's all a bit lowbrow in relatively sophisticated Taiwan.

Universal preschool education and a pledge to eliminate illiteracy are among the reforms of China's education system published in the country's national education plan for the next decade.

China has jailed three minority Uighurs who ran websites with content considered politically sensitive by the government, according to a media report and an advocacy group.

A Shanghai-based business reporter is wanted by the police in East China's Zhejiang province after he exposed insider trading in a listed firm in the region.

Senior resident representative of the International Monetary Fund to China, Il Houng Lee, has said the Chinese economy was fundamentally "still very robust" and the IMF has maintained its projection of China's economic growth in 2010 at 10.5 percent.

China had shown its commitment to developing clean energy through its strong support for an international alternative energy program, the head of the program's China office said Wednesday.

The water supply was safe in a northeastern China city after more than 3,000 containers of toxic chemicals were washed into a river by the worst floods in a decade in the country, an official said Thursday.

Geely Holding Group has received final Chinese government approval to acquire Volvo Cars from Ford Motor Co., the Commerce Ministry said Thursday.

China , the world's most prodigious emitter of greenhouse gas, continues to suffer the downsides of unbridled economic growth despite a raft of new environmental initiatives.

For four days, U.S. and South Korean troops fired artillery into the skies and dropped anti-submarine bombs on underwater targets - dramatic exercises meant to warn North Korea not to strike again.