Tag: China

In this photo taken Wednesday, June 30, 2010, Chinese attorney Pu Zhiqiang speaks during an interview at his office in Beijing, China. Police on Friday, June 13, 2014 formally arrested the rights lawyer who is well known in China for his efforts to defend free speech, abolish labor camps and publicize abuses by police and Communist Party officials. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

China arrests rights lawyer who fought labor camps

Gillian Wong · June 14, 2014 12:20 am

In this Saturday, June 7, 2014 photo, real estate sales agents check on their smartphones near display boards show properties for sale and rent, as they wait for potential buyers in Beijing, China. Reality has arrived in Chinaâs housing market. Prices that soared out of reach for families are cooling under pressure from government lending curbs. That has sparked concern about the impact on Chinaâs banks and economy. But Chinese leaders appear willing to let investors suffer losses to defuse tensions over lack of affordable housing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China housing slump sparks fears for economy

Joe McDonald · June 13, 2014 6:55 am

President and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Barack Obama poses with his medal and diploma alongside Nobel committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at City Hall in Oslo, Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009. (AP Photo/John McConnico)

Examiner Editorial: Obama tenure marked by foreign policy debacles

Washington Examiner · June 12, 2014 9:00 pm

In this undated photo released by Japan Ministry of Defense, Chinese SU-27 fighter plane is shown. China and Japan are blaming each other for a close encounter between military jets over the East China Sea. China's defense ministry says Japanese F-15 fighters followed a Chinese TU-154 plane on regular patrol Wednesday, June 11, 2014 and got as close as 30 meters (100 feet). Japanese Defense Minister Itsunori Onodera said Wednesday that two Chinese SU-27 fighters had posed a danger to Japanese aircraft by flying near them. (AP Photo/Japan Ministry of Defense)

China, Japan blame each other for jet encounter

Washington Examiner · June 12, 2014 8:06 pm

In this Sunday, June 1, 2014 photo, Nils Pihl stands near his company name at his apartment, which convert to a office in Beijing, China. Pihl has spent 18 months building what he calls cutting-edge software to crunch âreally big data sets.â But instead of going to Silicon Valley, the 27-year-old Swede and his four colleagues have been working on his invention from a small apartment overlooking smoggy northwest Beijing. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China’s startups hope for boom after Alibaba IPO

Jack Chang · June 12, 2014 2:53 am

This screen shot shows 11 Main's homepage. The new e-commerce site is hoping to bring Main Street to the Web with an invite-only online marketplace that focuses on small-business retailers. (AP Photo)

Alibaba’s first US presence 11 Main debuts

Mae Anderson · June 11, 2014 5:23 pm

Vietnamese protest outside the Chinese Embassy on Sunday, May 11, 2014 in Hanoi, Vietnam, against Beijing's deployment of an oil rig in the contested waters of the South China Sea. (AP Photo/Chris Brummitt)

China-Vietnam clash could spawn new anti-China alliance

Austin Bay · June 11, 2014 3:17 pm

FILE - In this Monday, June 9, 2014 file photo, visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, sits with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right during their meeting in New Delhi, India. Amid fierce disputes with Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines, China is reaching out in a friendly way to India in a warming trend that could help ramp up economic exchanges and dissipate decades of distrust between the two giant neighbors. (AP Photo, File)

China cultivates India amid tension with neighbors

Christopher Bodeen · June 11, 2014 12:28 pm

Oil declines slightly, remains above $104

Oil declines slightly, remains above $104

The Associated Press · June 10, 2014 8:04 pm

Chinese people eat their lunch next to a wall painted with a window and flowers in Beijing, China Tuesday, June 10, 2014. Higher food prices have pushed China's inflation to a five-month high of 2.5 percent. Data released Tuesday showed consumer inflation in May picked up from the previous month's 1.8 percent. The increase was driven by a 4.1 percent rise in food prices. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China’s inflation picks up on rise in food costs

Washington Examiner · June 10, 2014 7:22 am

In this Monday, June 9, 2014 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese naval soldiers stand on China's missile destroyer Haikou at a naval port in Sanya, south China's Hainan Province. The Chinese naval squadron has left port to take part for the first time in the world's largest naval exercises hosted by the U.S. in waters near Hawaii, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. China's participation in the Rim of the Pacific exercises is seen as an opportunity to build mutual trust amid tensions at sea with neighbors ranging from Vietnam and the Philippines to the south, to Japan in the east. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Hu Kaibing) NO SALES

National Security

China ships depart for naval drill with US, others

Christopher Bodeen · June 10, 2014 4:50 am

A journalist tries out the real-time air quality app on her smartphone after its official launching at the Environmental Protection Bureau in Beijing, China Monday, June 9, 2014. A Chinese environmental group launched the smartphone app Monday that tracks and shames polluting factories, highlighting how the country is making environmental data more available and enabling public monitoring of companies that pollute. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

Chinese group launches app to shame polluters

Louise Watt · June 9, 2014 11:50 am