By Douglas Holtz-Eakin
The young drop coverage to avoid higher premiums
China says the United States is "lifting a rock only to drop it on its own feet" in issuing the annual Pentagon report on the Chinese military.
Two more people have died in China from a new strain of bird flu, raising the death toll from the virus to 13, state media reported Sunday.
An explosion at a Chinese coal mine killed six workers Monday, three days after another explosion at the same mine killed 28 others, China's state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
A massive landslide engulfed a gold mining area in mountainous Tibet, burying 83 workers believed to have been asleep early Friday morning, Chinese state media said.
China says it has closed scores of websites for offering pornography, video sharing and online gaming.
Chinese state media say a court has sentenced seven people to prison for producing chromium-tainted gel medicine capsules.
Chinese state media say 95 people have been hospitalized after a private clinic gave them injections suspected to be contaminated with hepatitis C.
The largest annual human migration occurs in China during the busy travel season around the Chinese New Year. More than 1 billion Chinese passengers will jam China's highways, railways and airlines in the weeks before and after Feb. 10, New Year's Day.
The Chinese version is no easier to read than the original, the loyal-minded translator assures, but James Joyce's "Finnegans Wake" has still sold out its initial run in China _ with the help of some big urban billboards.
The Philippines said Tuesday that it is taking its feud with China over competing territorial claims in the South China Sea to an international tribunal.
Apple expects China to overtake the United States as its biggest market, CEO Tim Cook told a Chinese government news agency.
A low-budget, domestically produced comedy has unexpectedly become the highest-grossing Chinese film to date.
A low-budget, domestically produced comedy has unexpectedly become the highest-grossing Chinese film to date.
Nearly a decade after it was first brought, a lawsuit accusing two oil giants of widespread groundwater contamination in New Hampshire is expected to present jurors with the most complex and time-consuming trial in state history.
China's government tightened controls on Internet users Friday by enacting rules requiring them to register their names. The new rules follow online postings about graft and abuses that rattled the ruling party.
