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PetroChina has announced that a first batch of crude oil has been successfully piped from Kazakhstan to its oil tank field in northwestern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region via the ...

Sitting atop a Harley Davidson motorcycle in a franchise store in Beijing, visiting US Under Secretary for International Trade Franklin L. Lavin said he wished to have one of his o...

With extension work already underway at the Capital International Airport, plans have been unveiled for a second airport for Beijing. The new airport will be built after the 20...

A daily average of 4,400 tourists have traveled to Tibet by train since July 1, when the history-making Qinghai-Tibet Railway went into operation, said a local tourism official. ...

China delivered Friday two domestically manufactured Xinzhou-60 passenger planes to Laos and the Republic of Congo, the first sale of this aircraft to the two countries. The de...

Government measures to cool off the overheated property market have prompted prospective buyers across the country to postpone purchases, depressing prices in Shanghai and slowing ...

When people think of the Bund in Shanghai, thoughts turn to the barges chugging along the Huangpu River and architecture that is a reminder of time when life was slower and less in...

Airlines will authorize their ground service agencies to provide passengers with drinks, food and compensation for delayed flights that are the airlines' fault. The agencie...

Xitang, one of the many watertowns in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, has shut off most of its lights in the evening to save electricity. The town has introduced an energ...

Prisons will be less secretive in China from now on. Beijing has decided to open several of its once sealed-off prisons to regular public visits. A Beijing jail opened to t...

As oil prices rise, making money is no longer the name of the game in the aviation sector; rather the race is to see who can lose the least. That could probably be the case for...

Kaemi, the fifth typhoon of the year, weakened to tropical storm at 12:00 p.m. on Tuesday and then to tropical low pressure at 5:00 on Wednesday in Pinghe County, east China's Fuji...

Shanghai canceled several passenger ferries yesterday and ordered flood control and construction authorities to prepare for heavy rain and brisk winds as Tropical Storm Kaemi rolle...

A hydrofoil craft will ferry passengers up and down the waters of the Three Gorges region this September. The new ship can run at a maximum speed of 72km per hour and compl...

Shenzen Airlines will launch their first red-eye service from Beijing airport on August 11th, offering new overnight flights to Wuxi for only 430 yuan, or 60 percent off the normal...

The nation's 150 million entrepreneurs and professionals contribute a third of total tax revenues, The Outlook Weekly reported yesterday. The well-educated and highly-motivated...

China's railway police has begun a one-month campaign to combat train ticket scalpers on the newly-operated Qinghai-Tibet Railway. Trains have been running on the Qinghai-Tibet Rai...

Visitors to the 2010 World Expo won't have to wait in lines to have their tickets checked as they enter various exhibitions. New radio-wave-based ticket technology will al...

Editor's note: This is the first of a four-part series on the development of the mainland property market in the light of increasing government measures to combat excessive specula...

A government-led consolidation of Shanghai's food and beverage industry to create China's largest food and drinks conglomerate is taking shape, with all companies confirming the pr...

Peking University has decided to stop allowing elementary school pupils and adults to visit the campus in tour groups. The move is to maintain order on campus, according to...

Two people died on the spot and 37 others were injured when a bus overturned in northeast China's Jilin Province Saturday, the local traffic police said Sunday. The bus car...

Bullfighting, cockfighting, horse-racing, wrestling and beauty-contest are all part of the Torch Festival held in southwest China, which has attracted thousands of foreign touri...

Nine months after opening in Shanghai, China's most expensive luxury apartment complex has yet to attract a single buyer, but developer Tomson Group Ltd. is not about to slash pric...

Shopping has become an increasingly popular pastime in China, making the country home the world's largest population of clothes fanatics, according to a global on-line survey. ...

For China's new generation of college students, summer vacation isn't just a relaxing time for sleeping in, eating homemade meals and seeing old friends. Traveling has become their...

Chinese police caught 3,021 persons trying to illegally cross Chinese borders in the first six months of 2006, according to statistics released by the Exit and Entry Administrat...

The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has approved the construction of four civilian airports, which will cost 1.618 billion yuan (US$202 million). The to-b...

The European Union (EU) should consider the interests of its importers, retailers and consumers as well as that of Chinese workers when planning to place anti-dumping tariffs on Ch...

Uruguay's President Tabare Vazquez said on Thursday in Cordoba that it would be "wonderful" to sign a free trade agreement with China. Vazquez made the remarks after arriving h...