Bird’s singing, horses galloping, trains trundling along and even planes taking off are no challenge for Chinese professional mimic Cheng Jiaqiang. He can imitate more than 100 noises, a skill he learned from his father, who in turn, learne...

The People’s Republic of China will mark the 60th anniversary of its founding on Thursday with a military parade showcasing its growing political and economic clout. Reuters correspondents, photographers and television crew will be blogging live the...

Michael Phelps is a phenomenal swimmer, possibly the best in history, and if he achieves his target of eight gold medals in Beijing, for an overall tally of 14 (10 of them individual) there is n...

When President Barack Obama suggested in Beijing last month that China and the United States could cooperate on bringing stability to Afghanistan and Pakistan, and indeed to "all of South Asia", much of the attention was diverted to India, where the...

  When people want to know what’s happening in North Korea, their first stop is often the Chinese border city of Dandong. It’s one of the few places where North Koreans interact with the outside world. There are truck drivers and traders, and...

Some fascinating data about the growing power of emerging markets, particularly the BRICs, was on display at the OECD's annual investment conference in Paris this week. Not the least of it came from MIGA, the World Bank's Multilateral Investment...

Monk Qing Fuming is no stranger to hardship. He and two other monks live high up in the mountains in Inner Mongolia in Lasengmiao’s Lama Temple. Alongside an unforgiving climate and few amenities, Qing now lives in a growing cloud of smog as, down in...

On the first day of the Copenhagen climate change summit, Beijingers were experiencing what authorities called a ’slightly polluted’ day. Air quality in the capital has improved, thanks in part to the movement of factories elsewhere and new traffic...