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China officially announced the three astronauts who will blast off Tuesday, June 11, in a Shenzhou 10 spacecraft in an attempt to help the country become a major player in the space race alongside the United States and Russia.
On Tuesday, the governments of Mexico and China signed a series of agreements relating to energy, tourism, trade and investments designed to strengthen and balance the relationship between the two nations, which is currently in a negative balance for Mexico.
NBA star Jeremy Lin may be hitting it big on the NBA scene these days, but that doesn't mean he's forgotten his Taiwan roots.
Brandon 'Bam Bam' Rios sent a strong warning to Manny Pacquiao ahead of their welterweight clash in November, promising to give Pacman another brutal beating in the ring and eventually send him into his retirement.
On the heels of reports from U.S. officials that Iranian hackers have gained a worrying amount of access to U.S. energy firms in an attempt to sabotage utility systems, comes new reports that Chinese cyberspies have compromised the system designs of a long list of important U.S. military assets.
A 14-year old chinese golfer is making big waves in the PGA Tour after making the cut in this week's Byron Nelson Championship in Irving, Texas.
One of the most disturbing accounts of child abuse ever has just arrived from China. An 11-year old girl has been rescued from an abusive father, who among other things, dipped her in boiling water and forced her to kneel on broken glass.
China and the Philippines are bringing their disputes into the hardcourt. The two countries who have been on a heated discord over the past year will be facing each other again, but this time it will be over basketball.
On Saturday, local health authorities in China announced that the H7N9 bird flu virus has spread to the central province of Hunan, making this the third case in three days in a new location.
China reported the first case of a new strain of bird flu infection in the northeastern province of Shandong, according to the news agency Xinhua.
A devastating earthquake in China has brought several tech companies together and raised millions in relief efforts.
A strong 6.6 magnitude earthquake hit a remote, mostly rural and mountainous area of southwestern China's Sichuan province on Saturday, killing at least 156 people and injuring about 5,500 close to where a big quake killed almost 70,000 people in 2008.
It's been nearly three weeks since Chinese researchers reportedly discovered a new strain of bird flu in humans. Scientists however still aren't sure how people are becoming infected with the disease, when most of the subjects had seemingly not had any recent contact with live fowl. Additionally, the bird flu virus supposedly can't be passed from person to person.
A critically endangered Amur leopard, which lives naturally in southeaster Russia and northeaster China, has gone on display at the Kansas City Zoo. The 10-year-year-old leopard lived at the Roosevelt Park Zoo in Minot, North Dakota, until the facility flooded about two years ago.
As news came in Tuesday of four more infections in China from the H7N9 bird flu, one view of the situation, espoused by Foreign Policy's global health expert, Laurie Garrett, may be coming into sharper focus: that "this could be how pandemics begin."
