BEIJING — Rescuers have found two survivors and are searching for 25 men missing after a Vietnamese ship capsized in heavy winds and waves near China.

BEIJING – China’s government-backed Catholic church says it will proceed with the ordination of a bishop who does not have the pope’s approval, despite objections raised by the Vatican. Liu Bainian, spokesman for the Chinese Catholic...

At least 300 people have died and thousands are feared hurt after a magnitude-6.9 earthquake struck China’s Qinghai province, officials say. The powerful tremor hit remote Yushu county, 500km (310 miles) south-west of provincial capital Xining,...

As more Americans go to mainland China to take jobs, more Chinese and Americans are working side by side. These cross-cultural partnerships, while beneficial in many ways, are also highlighting tensions that expose differences in work experience, pay...

A pair of young lovers in Chongqing Municipality sold their baby boy for 2,500 yuan ($366), Chongqing Economic Times reported Thursday. Police say the couple now feels remorse and wants the baby back. The baby’s mother Zhang Yao, 19, met the...

large signs posted by the front door list edicts that are more Communist Party decrees than Koranic doctrines.The imam’s sermon at Friday Prayer must run no longer than a half-hour, the rules say. Prayer in public areas outside the mosque is...

Hundreds of workers rallied at a government office in south China on Friday to demand unpaid wages from a shuttered toy maker as the global economic crisis worsened the outlook for an industry already hurt by falling exports.

Three boats with fierce dragon heads at the helm cut through the water. Drummers kept time as 20 paddlers in each craft vigorously moved their boats toward the finish line.

In mid-July, sources in mainland China reported that approximately 20 days ago, a man suddenly died from an unidentified disease in Wanjiakou Village, Xiaoguan Town, Wendeng City, Shandong Province. His entire body turned dark purple, and he bled from...

Yahoo’s first-quarter earnings were good enough to trump Wall Street estimates. Now the question is whether they’re good enough to get Steve Ballmer & Co. to bump the price they’re willing to pay for Yahoo.