China is planning trial efforts for an energy cap-and-trade scheme, applying market forces to its goals to reduce fossil fuel consumption and greenhouse gas pollution, the government said on Saturday.
China's spending on police and domestic surveillance will hit new heights this year, with public security outlays unveiled on Saturday outstripping the defence budget for the first time as Beijing cracks down on protest calls.
Scientists are reportedly struggling to find an explanation to the appearance of two suns in the sky viewed in China a couple of days ago.
China is on course for another five years of robust growth, but inflation threatens social stability and must be tamed, Premier Wen Jiabao said on Saturday.
China's Premier Wen Jiabao said on Saturday the nation had to tame inflation that threatened social stability as the government seeks to steer the world's second-biggest economy toward more balanced, greener growth.
Each year, China faces 100,000 protests, said Elizabeth Economy, Director of Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
France faced severe political embarrassment on Friday after carmaker Renault said the three top executives it sacked for industrial espionage in January might not be spies after all.
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China will beef up its military budget by 12.7 percent this year, the government said on Friday, a return to double-digit spending increases that will stir regional unease.
China Investment Corp, the country's $300 billion sovereign wealth fund, is counting on getting a fresh injection of cash from the government to invest abroad, a senior CIC official told Reuters on Friday.
China could be producing as much as 4 billion tonnes of coal by 2015, up from an estimated 3.2 billion last year, the head of one of China's leading coal firms said on Friday.Wu Yongping, the chairman of Datong Coal Mine Group, the country's third biggest producer, said despite China's efforts to reduce its dependence on coal, the dirtiest of fossil fuels, it would continue to play a dominant role in China's energy mix.I can't see coal's position in China's energ...
A behemoth dragon-shaped shopping mall in the desert near Dubai has become a symbol of the deepening links between East Asia and the Middle East.
China's plan for the next five years will put a hard target on overall energy use, capping consumption at 4 billion tonnes of coal equivalent (TCE) by 2015, Xinhua news agency quoted the country's former energy chief Zhang Guobao as saying on Friday.
China said on Friday its military spending for 2011 would rise 12.7 percent, resuming double-digit hikes that have stoked regional disquiet about Beijing's expanding strength.
After the financial crisis, US dollar-bashing has become en vogue. Marc Chandler, however, has emerged as a defender of the US dollar and “empire,” as he calls it.
Apple chief executive Steve Jobs has expressed interest in developing an iPhone based on China Mobile's fourth-generation telecoms standard, the chairman of the Chinese telecoms operator said on Friday.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton expressed concern on Thursday that the United States was losing the information war internationally, and especially in the Middle East, drawing a critical comparison between the U.S. media and broadcaster Al Jazeera.
Western companies flush with cash but reluctant to commit to longer-term investments spent heavily on advertising in 2010 and especially on TV, boosting the world's biggest ad group WPP in the U.S. and Britain.
Will Apple develop an iPhone that can run on China Mobile's TD-SCDMA 3G standard, a move that could boost the sales of iPhone in China?
There is no word as yet from Apple on this, but the chairman of China Mobile said on Friday Apple's Steve Jobs has expressed interest in developing an iPhone for his network, Reuters has reported.
ECB policymakers warned global central bankers on Friday that economic imbalances could worsen fast unless the G20 makes a concerted push to tackle them.
The Chinese yuan rose 0.1 percent against dollar on Friday as markets speculated that Chinese monetary policy would tighten in view of the rising inflation and the prospect of social unrest.
ECB policymaker Axel Weber warned global central bankers on Friday that economic imbalances could worsen faster than first expected to pre-crisis levels and urged the G20 to push ahead with tackling them.
