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Chinese property and cinema conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group said Wednesday it is buying British yacht maker Sunseeker and will develop a high-end London hotel, expanding into the luxury market as part of the latest foray abroad by a major Chinese firm.

China has completed a monitoring scheme in restive Tibet that requires all telephone and internet users to register under their real names, state media said on Wednesday, as part of a campaign to crack down on what officials describe as rumors.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday the world body's peacekeeping efforts face growing dangers from non-traditional threats such as suicide bombers and improvised explosive devices.

New research from WealthInsight shows Chongqing was the fastest growing city for multi-millionaires in China between 2007 and 2012.

New Home Prices Rise in Most Cities New home prices rose from a year earlier in 69 of the 70 largest cities in China in May, and new home prices rose in 65 cities if compared with a month earlier, according to the National Bureau of Statistics.

WeChat Joins Forces with McDonald's for In-App Purchase WeChat, a WhatsApp-like social networking app developed by Tencent Holdings Ltd , is trying out retailing with McDonald's Corp's public account.

A FESTIVAL dedicated to dog meat in southern China has been targeted by protesting animal lovers, who have won a minor concession from local officials, an activist says.

In the capital of tropical Laos, two dozen students who see their future in trade ties with neighboring China spent their school year attending Mandarin classes in a no-frills, rented room.

A truck loaded with the Chinese made drone, the ASN-207, takes part in a military parade in Beijing, China.

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.