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Earlier today, the 38-year-old sports stud played a game of soccer with a group of children while visiting the children at the Nanjing Olympic Sports Center in Nanjing, China.

A Chinese government official is facing accusations of supporting a mistress with extravagant spending beyond his modest salary, in the latest sex scandal to hit the ruling Communist Party.

President Xi Jinping is to launch a "thorough clean-up" of the ruling Communist Party, state media reported Tuesday, the latest strongly-worded anti-corruption drive to be enacted by China's new leader.

The price of high-end fish around the world has spiked to an all-time high due to a recent rise in demand in China that is outpacing supply, according to a new report released Tuesday.

For a country so thoroughly associated with its national language, referred to in the West as Mandarin, China is remarkably rich in linguistic diversity.

North Korea's First Vice Foreign Minister Kim Kye Gwan, right, waves as he arrives in Beijing, China, June 18, 2013.

The statue of the late actor and martial arts expert was unveiled Saturday to a crowd of several hundred people in the historical Central Plaza, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Southern Airlines Passenger Traffic Up 7% in May China Southern Airlines Ltd , the nation's biggest carrier by passenger traffic, said its passenger traffic rose 7.1% year on year to 7.37 million people and its cargo traffic fell 2.3% year on year to 102,000 tons in May. Between January and May, its passenger traffic was up 5.7% year on year to ... (more)

Outstanding local government debt in China is likely to have topped 12.1 trillion yuan as of the end of 2012, or 23.3% of gross domestic product, HSBC says in its First Light Asia report dated June 17, 2013.

Financial Leading Profits Surge to 10 Billion Yuan in 2012 The 20 financial leasing companies tracked by the China Banking Regulatory Commission posted a combined 10 billion yuan in net profits in 2012 after growing more than 100% annually during the past 5 years, according to CBRC assistant chairman Yang Jiacai.

Chinese authorities have formally arrested a man for trying to stage a repeat of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protest, his wife said on Tuesday, signalling an increasing intolerance for dissent under Communist Party rule.

China launched its first pilot carbon emissions exchange on Tuesday, though plans for a nationwide rollout and efforts to apply the scheme to some polluting heavy industries could be undermined by a slowdown in the world's No.2 economy.

Prosecutors and George Zimmerman's defense attorneys are returning for a second week of jury selection in Zimmerman's second-degree murder trial.

Concerns are building over a massive credit bubble, and some say it is no longer an engine of global growth.

The 59-year-old former banker, a Mandarin-speaking American, sits on the boards of five U.S.-listed Chinese companies, including JinkoSolar Holding Co.

The life story of Chen Shuizong, who killed 47 people when he set himself on fire, has attracted sympathy from Chinese similarly frustrated with a capricious system.

China has built the world's fastest supercomputer, almost twice as fast as the previous U.S. holder and underlining the country's rise as a science and technology powerhouse.

French Agriculture Minister Stephane Le Foll speaks with a delegation from the Chinese Embassy in France on the sidelines of the Vinexpo wine on June 16 after a group of Chinese students were attacked.

Growth of China's industry electricity consumption slowed further in May as the world's second largest economy struggled recovering from sluggish expansion.

Pedestrians walk past billboards for Burberry Group Plc, left, and Cie. Financiere Richemont SA's Chloe brand outside a shopping mall under construction in Shanghai, China, on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2013.