Latest Headline News From China

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - China, which is locked in a dispute with major trading partners over its control of rare earth minerals, on Thursday announced additional export quotas for this year.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Italy's World Cup-winning coach Marcello Lippi has been appointed head coach of the Chinese Super League champions Guangzhou Evergrande, the club said on Thursday.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Blind activist Chen Guang-cheng said Thursday China had agreed to issue him a passport within 15 days, allowing him to go to the United States after a bitter row between Beijing and Washington.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - South Korean financial regulators said Thursday they had uncovered the country's largest insurance fraud, involving more than 1,300 people and three hospitals.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - A slew of bleak data has raised fears China's economy is cooling faster than previously thought, but analysts say Beijing has only limited means to prevent a politically damaging slowdown.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - China has been quietly and gently pressuring North Korea to scrap plans for a third nuclear test, said two sources with knowledge of closed-door discussions between the countries, but there is no indication how the North will react.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - A dissident at the center of a standoff between Beijing and Washington on Tuesday accused Chinese authorities of a pattern of abuse against his family as he again took his case to U.S. lawmakers.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Vietnam is protesting China's fishing ban in parts of the South China Sea that Hanoi claims as its own.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - A group of Communist Party elders has issued a daring open letter calling for the removal of China's top security official, amid political upheaval ahead of a once-a-decade leadership transition.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Software piracy cost the industry a record US$63.4 billion globally in 2011 with emerging economies listed as the main culprits, an annual study said Tuesday.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - China is witnessing an increase in better-educated laborers and a booming talent pool, official figures show. The country was home to 120 million managerial, professional and skilled workers at the end of 2010, up by 7.8 million from 2008. They accounted for 11.1 percent of the country's labor force, according to statistics released on Monday.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Foreign direct investment (FDI) in China fell for the sixth consecutive month in April, official figures showed Tuesday, dragged down by a plunge in fund flows from crisis-struck Europe.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Gao Runping, who makes mechanical components for the oil industry, founded his business in the central city of Taiyuan with equipment bought from failing companies after the 2008 global crisis.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - China's economic growth of the last 20 years has generally been met with declining happiness, especially among the poorest members of society, according to a U.S. analysis published on Monday.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - China's top military newspaper warned officers on Tuesday to remain the ruling Communist Party's “most loyal” defenders in the face of what it called Western plotting, describing recent cases of ill-discipline and corruption as a “profound warning.”

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr's first visit to China has been dominated by concerns over Canberra's ties to Washington with Beijing criticizing their close military alliance, reports said Tuesday.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - The United States consulate in Shanghai has begun issuing its own pollution statistics, giving a much more pessimistic assessment of the city's air quality than official Chinese data.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - State media say a major Chinese airline will suspend some flights to the Philippines to reflect a drop in tourists traveling there amid a standoff between Beijing and Manila over territory in the South China Sea.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - Exiled Uyghur leader Rebiya Kadeer said Monday her people face a fight for their very existence against Chinese repression as a conference in Japan threatened to drive a wedge between Tokyo and Beijing.

(ChinaPost.com.tw) - A man was sentenced to death on Monday after being convicted of causing a blast in central China that killed two people and wounded several others, state media reported.