Space kiss of death for China, US?

China’s two unmanned spacecrafts, Tiangong 1, a prototype space-station module, and Shenzhou crew capsule, successfully docked last week in what many called the nation’s first “space kiss.”

Chinese booze challenges West

While baijiu-maker Wuliangye rejoiced at its $400,000 (2.5 million yuan) advertisement on one of Times Square’s big screens, the company wondered why Americans responded with “hostility.”

The Great Wall under threat

Due to widespread neglect, lack of funding and illegal mining, the Great Wall, one of the New Seven Wonders of the World, is beginning to collapse.

The next revolution is in fitness

While China, currently the world’s second-largest economy, grows ever richer, its well-off citizens appear to want to get fitter, according to a New York Times report.

China remembers Steve Jobs

As millions of netizens flooded the microblog Sina Weibo over the past week to show their condolences for the late tech icon Steve Jobs, they raised another question: why does China not have a Steve Jobs?

Second ’subprime crisis’ looms – Saddled with debt, manufacturers bail on failing businesses

In the past two weeks, as many as 20 businessmen abandoned their factories in the booming southeast, leaving workers jobless and their underground investors with hundred of millions of yuan in unpaid debt.

Tapping at the Nobel Prize – Tu Youyou awarded ‘America’s Nobel’ for anti-malarial drug

It is Nobel season. Although no one from the Chinese mainland has ever won the prize for science, pharmacologist Tu Youyou’s winning of the Lasker Award, known as “America’s Nobel,” may signal an end to China’s drought.

Yao Ming to go ‘back to school’

(AFP) – Yao Ming is returning to school this autumn, three months after retiring from the game that made him a global star, Xinhua News Agency reported, citing his agent.

Police to use more social media

(AFP) – The country has ordered police nationwide to make more use of social networking sites to ensure greater openness and “dispel misunderstandings,” Xinhua reported said Tuesday.

Newest panda census shows growth

(AFP) – The giant panda breeding center in Chengdu, Sichuan Province started with just six pandas in 1987 and now has more than 100.