Chinese officials sent an important signal Saturday, saying the country’s emissions will start falling by 2050, as announced by Su Wei, director-general of the Climate Change Department of the National Development and Reform Commission.

In the ruthless enterprise culture typical of Chinese business, workers' rights are at the center of heated debate across the country after an employee at an iPhone factory killed himself because a prototype phone went missing.

China’s gross domestic product (GDP) grew 7.1 percent in the first half from a year earlier, with a year-on-year growth rate of 7.9 percent in the second quarter, close to the government's target rate of eight percent, the latest official figures show.

Stronger China-US cooperation on clean energy will be the goal of two US officials who will be visiting China this week. US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and Energy Secretary Steven Chu will be in China from Tuesday to Friday.

Climate change has contributed to a flattening of the complex, multi-layered architecture of Caribbean coral reefs, compromising their role as a nursery for fish stocks and a buffer against tropical storms, a study shows.

The 20th anniversary of the events that took place in Tiananmen Square in Beijing on June 4, 1989 has been and gone. Much of the media in Australia and elsewhere in the capitalist world launched into the predicted outpouring of mock concern for democratic and human rights in China.

At a recent Chinese-American event dinner, I had fun chatting with two interesting neighbors at my table. On my left was a seasoned Seattle urban planning consultant. Our conversation started with his tour down China’s Yangtze River last summer, and his marveling at Beijing’s decision to build the Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest hydro project.

Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping wrapped up his official visit to Venezuela yesterday, signing a dozen new agreements with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in the areas of energy, telecommunications, information, and agriculture.

As I’ve already stipulated, I have a bit of hostility towards Mahbubani, given some of the statements he has made about China in the past where he has described the CCP not as the Communist Party of China but as the Chinese Capitalist Party.

China's State Council, or Cabinet, passed a long awaited medical reform plan which promised to spend 850 billion yuan (123 billion US dollars) by 2011 to provide universal medical service to the country's 1.3 billion population.

China has attracted the attention of the world because of its consistently high economic growth rate and stunning improvements in infrastructure, science and technology and culture.

I have a bit of hostility towards Mahbubani, given some of the statements he has made about China in the past where he has described the CCP not as the Communist Party of China but as the Chinese Capitalist Party.

In May this year, I attended a two-day conference, "Marxism and Sustainable Development", took a trip along the Yangtze, visited the Three Gorges Dam and toured Shanghai, Beijing and Chongqing, all to study sustainable development.

The Sydney Morning Herald made its assessment of the Beijing Olympics under the headline "China misses games opportunity." It trotted out the usual criticisms with a new one thrown in – "too much organization" and "robbing the events of a lively audience" because some events had empty seats.

Venezuela’s first satellite will be launched from Chinese soil on November 1st, President Hugo Chávez announced on his weekly Sunday talk show Aló Presidente, which was broadcast from the satellite control station located at an air base on the vast plains of the state of Guárico, Venezuela.

The curtain will come down on the Beijing Olympics on August 24. The Paralympics will then commence. When they conclude the world will be left to consider the full impact of the Games – the spectacle, the competition, the reputation of the host country in light of what has taken place during the weeks of awe-inspiring televised sporting performances.

Kingto Tashi was only a nine year old boy when Dalai Lama fled from Lhasa. His parents were serfs to nobles and Tashi had never worn a full cloth till then. Tashi, a more or less well-off farmer now with enough land to sustain not only his family but also his dreams, compared pre-1959 days with the present situation...

As capitalist industrial practices spread throughout the globe, the associated environmental problems were similarly dispersed and environment questions were actively posed for an increasing number of nations and an increasing portion of the global population.

Describing the economic interests of workers in the industrialized countries and those of workers in developing countries as "inextricably tied," United Auto Workers (UAW President Ron Gettelfinger presented a keynote address to the International Metalworkers' Federation (IMF) in Sao Paulo, Brazil last month.

The new Russian President Medvedev traveled to China on his first visit abroad. Beyond the new announced cooperation agreements, which confirm the forward momentum of the commercial relations between China and Russia, the two countries also signed a joint statement on some important international issues.