April 16, 2013
GENEVA--An international team of flu experts will go to China this week to help with investigations into the deadly H7N9 virus, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on April 16.
April 16, 2013
BEIJING--China's defense ministry made a thinly veiled attack on the United States on April 16 for increasing tensions in the Asia-Pacific by ramping up its military presence and alliances in the region, days after the top U.S. diplomat visited Beijing.
April 16, 2013
With relations between the two countries deteriorating, a Chinese film remake of Japanese TV drama series wasn't exactly a safe bet.
April 16, 2013
TAIPEI--A Chinese singing competition that has captivated television viewers in Taiwan is raising concerns about China's cultural influence on the island.
April 15, 2013
BEIJING--China's economic recovery unexpectedly stumbled in the first three months of 2013 as the annual rate of growth eased back to 7.7 percent from the 7.9 percent pace set in the final quarter of last year, official data showed on April 15.
April 14, 2013
BEIJING--Two people in the central Chinese province of Henan have been infected by a new strain of avian influenza, the first cases found in the region, while the death toll has risen to 13 from a total of 60 infections after two more deaths in Shanghai.
April 14, 2013
BEIJING--China and the United States will set up a working group on cyber security, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on April 13, as the two sides moved to ease months of tensions and mutual accusations of hacking and Internet theft.
April 14, 2013
WASHINGTON--The United States is fully prepared to defend Japan and South Korea in response to a possible missile launch by North Korea, Ashton Carter, U.S. deputy secretary of defense, said in an interview with The Asahi Shimbun.
April 14, 2013
BEIJING--A northeastern Chinese city near the border with North Korea staged an air raid drill amid tensions over Pyongyang's latest threats, state media reported on April 12.
April 13, 2013
BEIJING--U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met China's top leaders on April 13 in a bid to persuade them to exert pressure on North Korea to scale back its belligerent rhetoric and, eventually, return to nuclear talks.
April 13, 2013
BEIJING--The Chinese capital reported on April 13 its first case of a new strain of bird flu, state news agency Xinhua said, the first time it has been found in a human outside of eastern China.
April 13, 2013
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado--Space is playing an increasing role in security talks between the United States and China, although no formal dialogue dedicated to space security has begun, a senior U.S. State Department official said on April 11.
April 13, 2013
SAN FRANCISCO--Cyber security researchers have uncovered a Chinese hacking ring that they said broke into the servers of dozens of online video gaming companies and stole valuable source code over a four-year period.
April 12, 2013
BEIJING—An increasingly belligerent North Korea has put longtime ally China in a bind, and it seems all its leaders can do is to call on Pyongyang to return to the negotiating table.
April 12, 2013
Locked in an acrimonious territorial dispute over a group of islets in the East China Sea, there are few signs of a thaw in the frosty relations between Japan and China.
April 12, 2013
BEIJING--Chinese President Xi Jinping has visited a key naval base in an island province in the disputed South China Sea in his latest move advertising his close ties to the military.
April 12, 2013
SHANGHAI--The Chinese debut of Quentin Tarantino's Oscar-winning film "Django Unchained," a violent Western slave revenge tale, was suddenly cancelled on April 11 for "technical reasons," movie theatres said.
April 12, 2013
BEIJING--Yum Brands Inc., the biggest foreign fast-food chain operator in China, is in danger of breaking its 11-year streak of double-digit profit growth as it scrambles to deal with food scares and bird flu in its most lucrative market.
April 11, 2013
Japan will continue to face territorial claims from China and Taiwan, despite having knocked a wedge between them by making concessions to Taipei in a fishing agreement over waters surrounding the disputed Senkaku Islands.
April 11, 2013
BEIJING--While the U.S. economic recovery has allowed China to enjoy steady growth in its total amount of trade, transactions between Japan and China have dropped sharply from last year, according to January to March data released by China's General Administration of Customs on April 10.