The city of Beijing is planning to hire thousands of internet censors in a fresh sign of the authorities' attempts to tighten their grip on cyberspace...
Posted 06.18.2009 | Green
Geothermal energy, which harnesses the natural heat under the earth's surface, has support from a lot of people: the US government, Google and even Ra...
Huffington Post via Reuters | Posted 06.11.2009 | Style
Bikinis are becoming accepted as bathing wear in Beijing. A recent swimsuit contest in the Asian city showcased Chinese designers and their creations,...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
The United States Congress says to the people of China and freedom-loving people everywhere: Your cause is our cause. We will never forget, and we will continue to push for freedom.
Lauren Hilgers | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
Censored in Chinese media and left out of official histories, there has been little to keep memory of Tiananmen Square going.
Xiao Qiang | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
Without a basic grounding in the truth about Tiananmen, there is no moral foundation for China's rise. The Chinese government must come to terms with its own history.
New York Times | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 06.03.2009 | World
It was exactly 20 years ago that I stood on the northwest corner of Tiananmen Square and watched "People's China" open fire on the people....
Huffington Post | David Flumenbaum | Posted 06.03.2009 | World
Some call it the "Tiananmen Square Massacre," others say the "Tiananmen Square Crackdown," and in China it is known merely as an "incident," the "June...
The Independent | Mary Dejevsky | Posted 06.01.2009 | World
Twenty years ago, a peaceful student protest in China's capital sparked a massacre that was broadcast across the globe. But did it really change anyth...
Eric C. Anderson | Posted 05.29.2009 | World
So long as American forces remain in South Korea, and no one threatens to unleash a refugee flood by invading or imploding North Korea, China can return to its ancient practice of "benign neglect."
Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 05.19.2009 | World
It is impossible to draw firm conclusions about China because there are so many contradictions.
Michael Russnow | Posted 05.11.2009 | Entertainment
The Amazing Race provides fewer decision-making opportunities and clocks less mileage in each episode, thus diminishing the potential for bad luck affecting the teams. What's the reason?
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 04.16.2009 | World
A violent grab for power among Kim's inner circle in a country as trigger-happy as North Korea has important ramifications for global security, to say the least.
Ted Piccone | Posted 04.14.2009 | World
Obama needs to lead by example by implementing human rights reforms at home and by reminding colleagues they share a responsibility to follow universal democratic standards.
Steve Parker | Posted 04.05.2009 | Business
The perfect financial storm decimating the US auto sector could result in the nation's largest manufacturing industry falling even farther behind overseas competitors when it comes to EVs.
Times Online | Jane Macartney | Posted 03.30.2009 | World
Signalling that the risk of anti-Chinese unrest has subsided in Tibet, Beijing has decided to reopen the Himalayan region's soaring mountains and gild...
Ashley Rindsberg | Posted 03.18.2009 | World
After news of Freeman's appointment was leaked, a group of Chinese dissidents, including pro-democracy activists from the Tiananmen Square protests, wrote a letter to Obama protesting the decision.
Julian Baird Gewirtz | Posted 03.17.2009 | World
The Vagina Monologues' appearance here captures a crucial moment of change in the way young Chinese women are thinking about their sexuality and their status.
Alex Pasternack | Posted 03.13.2009 | Green
In slowdown and stimulus, can China breathe easier? In this economic downturn, few green linings could be as exciting as a cleaner China. It was the...
AP | BY PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 03.09.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Chinese ships surrounded and harassed a Navy mapping ship in international waters off China, at one point coming within 25 feet of ...
GlobalPost | Kathleen E. McLaughlin | Posted 03.04.2009 | World
YANGQU, China -- With a raft of subsidies and thousands of new stores to spur spending, China is eyeing its poorest people -- farmers -- to kick-sta...
New York Times | MIchael Wines | Posted 03.04.2009 | World
BEIJING -- China's national Legislature begins its tightly scripted annual meeting on Thursday with an agenda dominated by the ruling Communist Party'...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom | Posted 03.03.2009 | World
The Beijing Games should be seen as a part of an ongoing, ambitious, and so far partially successful re-branding effort on the part of the Chinese Communist Party.
AP | Posted 02.25.2009 | World
BEIJING — A passenger car at an intersection near Beijing's Tiananmen Square caught fire Wednesday with three people inside, police said, in wha...
Alex Pasternack | Posted 02.24.2009 | Green
"What we hope is you don't make the same mistake we made, because I don't think either Chinese and the world can afford that," Hillary Clinton said la...
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Financial Times | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media