In this photo taken Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, women walk past the Google logo outside the Google China headquarters Beijing, China, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010. Google must obey China's laws and traditions, B

Chinese online auction website Taobao.com has announced that Taobao Open Platform will spend CNY10 million to support the winners of its TOP Application Competition.Alibaba, the parent company of Taob

One week after the company's Chinese search engine website was apparently hacked, Baidu.com's chief technology officer has resigned.In a terse, two-sentence company statement, Baidu stated that Li Y

Chinese leaders and people Wednesday bade farewell to eight peacekeeping police officers who were killed in the 7.3-magnitude earthquake in Haiti last week.Top leaders Hu Jintao, Wu Bangguo, Wen Jiaba

A customer selects sweets in a supermarket in Taiyuan, capital city of north China's Shanxi province January 14, 2010. According to major markets and food stores in the city, the prices of Spring Festival

Families are frantically booking nianyefan, or Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve family dinners, at popular restaurants in Beijing and Shanghai.

Google China's exiting statement has sparked worldwide attention to ties between China and the United States this week

He also went to a border section between Hebei and Shanxi provinces to visit stranded passengers on the Shijiazhuang-Taiyuan expressway and to inspect the disaster situation.

Japan is showing signs of a recovery with factory output picking up, the finance ministry said Tuesday, upgrading its assessment of the world's second largest economy.

BEIJING: China's overall energy output rose 9 per cent on-year in the first nine months of 2009, state media reported on Tuesday, in another sign that its emergence from the global slump is picking up steam.

CHINA'S press authority has tightened controls over online games twice in two months, sending the clear signal that the negative impacts of online games on society have grown too big to be neglected.

Visitors attend the official opening of the exhibition "Son of Heaven" as part of the Europalia-China festival in Brussels, Belgium, October 8, 2009. Belgium and its neighbouring regions wil

NASA's Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) and its Centaur booster rocket are on course to crash into the moon in this artist's illustration released October 9

"We will continue to make government affairs public, enhance information distribution, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of foreign news organizations and reporters, and facilitate foreign media coverage of China in accordance with China's laws and regulations," Hu said while addressing the World Media Summit in Beijing.

Last week at SIGGRAPH, an international conference on computer graphics, a group presented an innovative system designed to analyze images of the sky. Most commercial image-search systems figure out what's in an image by analyzing the associated text, such as the words surrounding a picture on a Web page or the tags provided by humans. But ideally, the software would analyze the content of the image itself. Much research has been done in this area, but so far no single system has solved the problem. The new system, called SkyFinder, could offer important insight into how to make an intuitive, automatic, scalable search tool for all images.

Spectrum Bridge said its online marketplace for fallow wireless spectrum has generated more than $8 million in revenue for the second quarter.
The company's Web site, SpecEx.com, provides a secondary marketplace for radio spectrum that's used by mobile operators, communication companies, first responders, and other businesses. Spectrum Bridge said its inventory of spectrum includes approximately three billion MHz points of presence, and this spans from 40 MHz to 40 GHz.

The US Department of Energy has granted $9.5 million to a company in California that plans to build America's first recycling facility for lithium-ion vehicle batteries.

President Hu Jintao arrived here on Sunday to start his official visit to Italy.

US President Barack Obama and Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev are to announce a framework deal on arms cuts at a Kremlin summit on Monday but the rest of Obama's first visit as president may prove more difficult.

Traffic control was partially lifted Monday morning in parts of Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region after a deadly riot late Sunday, but tension still exists in the city.

Monsanto Co., the world's biggest seed maker, said Wednesday its third-quarter profit fell 14 percent and it plans to cut 900 jobs, or about 4 percent of its work force.

White House officials phoned a blogger from a popular left-leaning Web site on Monday evening to tell him that President Barack Obama had been impressed with his online reporting about Iran

China has increased taxes on tobacco products, the government said on Saturday.

US couple holds the world's first weightless wedding

China "deeply regrets" about the affirmative determination made by the US International Trade Commission (ITC) on China safeguard investigation involving certain passenger vehicles and light truck tires

BEIJING: Searching engine giant Google Inc. said Saturday that it would take all necessary steps to clean up pornographic searching results in its Chinese-language portal, Google.cn.

People dance near the Bird's Nest as the National Fitness Campaign kicks off in Beijing Saturday June 20, 2009. The campaign lasts until August 8, the first anniversary of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

The 2008 Beijing Olympic Games raked in a profit of more than 1 billion yuan ($146 million), the National Audit Office (NAO) said on Friday.

By David Ferguson Katie Targett Adams sings from the heart for Sichuan. [David Ferguson/China.org.cn] Wednesday June 17 saw the official launch of Day by Day, a song written and recorded in Chinese an

Chinese developers of a controversial software to filter pornography may face legal action from the US makers of a similar Internet filter.

World Bank Thursday raised its forecast of China's economic growth rate to 7.2 percent in 2009 from its earlier forecast of 6.5 percent, as the country's expansionary fiscal and monetary policies have kept the economy growing respectably.

China, Russia sign five-point joint statement

The number of people worldwide going online has passed one billion for the first time in January, according to comScore. And almost 180 million internet users-over one in six of the world's online population-live in China, more than any other country.

A news report has suggested Dell may be planning a new line of smartphones featuring Android and Windows Mobile platforms. Smartphones are increasingly behaving