The Olympic games are drawing attention to China, which is undergoing sweeping changes as it modernizes. Yet some in China look to the past for inspiration, to the ideas of social harmony of the philosopher Confucius. Mike O'Sullivan spoke in Beijin...
China captured the women's team gymnastics gold medal Wednesday at the Beijing Olympics. VOA Sports Editor Parke Brewer reports the six-member team scored a slim victory over the reigning world champion United States. Chinese gymnast Yang Yilin cele...
Georgia has asked China to use its influence to push for a resolution to a territorial flare-up with Russia. Georgian troops have pulled out of the breakaway province of South Ossetia after being overwhelmed by Russian forces. Daniel Schearf reports...
U.S. President George Bush met Sunday with Chinese President Hu Jintao on the sidelines of the Beijing Olympic games. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the session took place a few hours after Mr. Bush attended church services in Beijing. US President Geo...
A United Nations report says governments in the Asia and the Pacific need to step up spending on public health systems and lower income disparities to ensure child survival rates are sustained. As Ron Corben reports from Bangkok, the U.N. report say...
China and Russia have signed a border agreement that settles the demarcation of their 4,300-kilometer border. Stephanie Ho reports from Beijing. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, left, shakes hand with China's President Hu Jintao in Beijing, 2...
Chinese steel makers have agreed to pay record prices for iron ore from the remote Pilbara region of Western Australia. In a deal signed this week, Australian mining giant Rio Tinto has secured increases that almost double the price of some grades o...
China says 3,000 Chinese tourists a day will be allowed to travel to Taiwan, a long-estranged island Beijing considers part of Chinese territory. The visits will be possible once the two sides implement regular, direct flights, weekend, next month....
Storms have stranded hundreds of thousands of commuters at railway stations. It is the worlds new superpower forced to a standstill. And there are millions, they are waiting and waiting, with no way out, the young, and the old, and the desperate. Ca...
By Stephanie Ho Beijing 19 June 2008 China says Japanese companies participating in a joint gas exploration deal in the East China Sea will be subject to Chinese law. China also says it has not given up its legal claims to disputed territory in the...