Dogburgers will be on the menu for fans during the World Cup in South Korea.
A northeastern China coal mine where a gas explosion killed 115 workers last month had been instructed to shut down at least seven times before the fatal accident.
China’s fortnight-long block on the Google.com search engine has ended, Internet users said on Friday, adding to a chain of events which has mystified — and angered — many of the country’s web users.
The Dalai Lama may give him a run for his money, but few people are as officially despised by the Chinese government as Chen Shui-bian — president of Taiwan, accused ”splittist” and the figure Beijing considers most worthy of the formidable brunt of state-sponsored derision.
US Internet giant Yahoo! is ”complicit” in rights abuses by the Chinese government after agreeing to a Beijing-backed self-censorship pledge for web pages, a human rights group has charged.
A group of 28 factory workers in east China tried to commit mass suicide by jumping off a building in protest against poor retirement benefits, a rights group said on Tuesday.
China may be planning to go to the moon in the course of the next decade, but an exhibition on Monday suggested it has far more ambitious goals — Mars.
The death toll in severe floods around China earlier this month has risen to more than 500, as the country braced for further downpours.
Libyan leader Moammar Gadaffi — on a road trip through southern Africa — pitched his tent in the Swazi royal kraal Friday, refusing to sleep in a hotel.
Jailing crooked executives and strengthening laws against corporate wrongdoing are needed to restore Americans’ confidence in big business.