At a Hunan restaurant in Flushing, Queens, members of the newly formed Chinese Returnees International (CRI) suck on spicy spare ribs and quaff green tea. They've come for camaraderie and conversation--but they also have loftier goals.

"Our primary concern is to make an easier road for overseas...

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Filmmaker John D. Liu believes we have a solution to climate change, but it's not as simple as reducing carbon dioxide emissions. Liu's film Lessons of the Loess Plateau, recently presented at the Asia Society's headquarters in New York, explores how,...

A group of chubby 8- to 18-year-old children trudge around a sweltering track under the watchful gaze of Frank Yu, general manager of Shanghai Dianfeng Sports Management Co., Ltd. While still a student at the Shanghai University of Sport, Yu, along with the help of two classmates, independently generated 30,000...

Another behemoth info tech company is buying majority shares of its Chinese counterpart.

Monster Worldwide buys 55 pct of ChinaHR for $174 mln BEIJING, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Employment website company Monster Worldwide Inc said on Wednesday it had completed its full acquistion of ChinaHR by purchasing a...

Companies have done their best to capitalize on the Olympics, whether via serving as an official sponsor or posing as one, amping up brand image, signing up stars or pushing new products.

A high-level PepsiCo Food manager recently revealed to me a locally developed snack set for...

Mao once purged the Chinese pursuit of superstitious practices and beliefs, including numerology. However, in using the date 8/8/08 for its biggest international event, the current government has instead embraced the way of the people and their beliefs, despite reservations about such ideas being unscientific.

Eight has traditionally been thought...

A Chinese friend who has become increasingly less friendly in recent months again sent me silly nationalist propaganda the other day. After reading a story in Newsweek by Mary Hennock and Melinda Liu, which very lightly mentions that the Sichuan earthquake might eventually shake things up politically as well,...

Today at approximately 2:30pm in Shanghai, a swell of horns surged outside of my 19th floor office window. From my office, I have a clear view of major roads and an expressway. Outside, cars on the highways and streets had stopped, as had cyclists in mid-intersection. Pedestrians slouched on curbs....

Watching earthquake coverage on CCTV Xinwen (CCTV's news channel) the other night, I witnessed something that shook me to the core.

A trapped Sichuanese woman waiting for rescue workers to dig her out told cameras poking down into her hole (in Chinese):

"I knew you would come...

Today while at a Bund-side five-star hotel's cafe where I was conducting an interview for the Enterprise section we'll launch in March's edition of Newsweek Select, a troop of 30-plus mud-covered construction workers tromped in with their rubber boots and construction hats and plopped down next to white collar workers...

The Chinese can rest easy tonight. I should know. I saw it on the news.

Tonight, I flipped on the evening broadcast of CCTV1. The station is part of the China Central Television (CCTV) family, which also runs channels such as CCTV2, CCTV3, CCTV4, CCTV5, and, well, you get...

Growing up a Nebraskan, I was taught to deeply distrust Iowans--particularly while driving. I have learned that although they are poky behind the wheel, Iowans have expertly navigated the American electoral system to their advantage, drumming up much hubbub and hard cash for the state with their early caucuses.

A roomful of children cheerfully cut hearts from luminescent gold paper, stencil dancing blue dolphins onto ocean scenes and paint smiling faces onto white ceramic mini Beijing opera masks. The charity foundation Chi Heng brought them from the provincial townships of their native Henan province to Shanghai for a summer...

Recently, I read with interest an article in the International Herald Tribune regarding the groundbreaking of the environmentally sustainable town, Dongtan, slated for construction just outside of Shanghai. I'd been following news of the town since plans for it were first published a few years ago. But what was...

Tucked within the traditional Shanghai lane where I reside, a Sunday is in full swing. Alley cats creep along tiled roofs searching for the perfect spot of sun, the elderly resident opera fans tap in rhythm as a man on erhu accompanies an octogenarian with a plucky mezzo soprano voice,...